Help for strings newbies

[musicos]

Hi all,

I am new to strings when it comes to editing with MIDI. I am more usd to editing piano MIDI.

I am planning to record with keyboard.

Is there a manual or reference to how to change the articulation, etc of individual notes when in MIDI?

Thank you!

[rAC]

@musicos what are you using for your DAW or score editor? If you specify that you may get better fed back.

[Mavros]

What library you are using is also helpful. From the keyboard entry, key switches to change articulations there is not really any difference with a piano but there are of course dependent on the library many more articulations.

Have a look at the SY Strings Pro manual to get an idea on key switches for strings libraries and also the VSL academy. It shows you more about playable ranges for strings. There are also many Youtube videos on „writing for strings“. There is a niece free course for starters in the virtual orchestral instrumentation world from Berklee Schhool of Music called Virtual Orchestration. It uses a VSL competitor product but you can do all they show with the VSL Prime library using the Sychron Player.

[musicos]

Hi all,

I am currently using celestial strings, and may be using studio strings in future.

I am using Ableton.

I can see that there is a tab called MPE (after notes and envelopes), and I can raise something for each note called "st." but the sound remains the same. Also adjusting MIDI Note velocity has ne effect on the sound (maybe this is specific to celestial strings?)

Thanks!

[Beat Kaufmann]

Hello Musicos
The following video shows how you can produce music with VSL samples using Duality Strings. Of course, all of this also works with the Orchestra Studio Strings.

The topic of keyswitches is also covered. Unfortunateli everything is only shown in a rough overview. Nevertheless, you can read a lot from the video. Perhaps it makes sense to stop the video briefly when something is of particular interest...

And as always, there are of course different ways to produce music, especially because the SYNCHRON Player is so flexible. Nevertheless, the production steps shown are those that have proven themselves over the years.

Enjoy the video:

Content Video

Part 1 (Preparation of the Midi file)
- Basic preparations in general for music pieces which are to be realized with samples.
- Tempo things
- Compiling custom presets (creating an articulation library)
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Part 2 (Midi Things)
- Note input / Midifile
- Setting articulations, volume adjustment via velocity
- Velocity XF
- Use of controller tracks (dynamics, timbre, filter, expression)
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Part 3 (Audio Things)
- Use of mix presets
- Use of default preset followed by own positioning of instruments
- Rendering instruments > in audio file
- audio mix
- Use of effects (EQ, compressor)

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All the best

Beat

[musicos]

Hi Beat,

Thank you very much, your videos are very helpful.

I see that the Studio strings have many different articualtions.

When I look at Celestial Strings, I can't see the different articualtions...

Does celestial strings have only 1 articulation?

Thank you!