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  • Feature request/suggestion: neighbour-based round robins

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    T

    I love my Synchron libraries and I love the Synchron player. However, there is one feature I have seen in other sample library engines that I think would add enormous value to the Synchron player. "Borrowed round robins." What is a "borrowed round robin"?

    Well basically, instead of taking the usual sample for a pressed note, the player takes the next sample up or down from across the keyboard, and pitch-shifts it to the played note's pitch. And this applies not only to the main note, but also to any transition sample (e.g. legato or detache transitions). What particularly makes this feature so useful I that it removes the machine-gun effect from "back and forth" legato movements. For example, strings playing a slurred quaver (eighth-note) pattern up and down between two pitches. This is an effect which is otherwise extremely hard to achieve.

    I find myself still having to reach for competing libraries sometimes in order to make use of this feature. If only Synchron Player could do it, I could live permanently in the wonderful VSL world! So of course, I have little sense of how complex this would be to add to the Synchron Player, but I genuinely believe it could unlock some very impressive capabilities from VSL's existing sample sets.

    Best,

    Alex
  • Cyril BlancC
    Cyril BlancC

    Did you look at VI Pro ?

    it has a feature that avoid machine gun effect, on repetitive notes it does not take the same sample

    I don't know if they have implemented the same possibility in the Synchron Player
  • T
    T

    @Cyril Blanc yes I know one can do this in VI Pro, but I'd really like to do it for Synchron Player with Synchron libraries. In addition, I'm not sure VI Pro's feature works with legato transitions. And it's unbelievably powerful to do this for transitions too. You can then achieve lines that are otherwise almost impossible with samples.