Speed Control and dotted rhythms?

[Patrick Ozzard-Low2]

Dear Forum,

I have a question about ‘Speed Control’ – something that’s puzzling me about how VI responds to real-time input. But maybe I misunderstood something?

Suppose, for example, you have a series of dotted rhythms - dotted quaver (dotted eighth) followed by a semiquaver (sixteenth), repeated a number of times. Tum-ti-Tum-ti-Tum-ti etc

Suppose VI gets the sample articulation of the first ‘Tum’ correct. At this point (as I understood it) VI expects another ‘Tum’, but you play ‘ti’ (so its gets it wrong?). Going on, does VI expects another ‘ti’ and get it wrong again (because you play ‘Tum’). Then will it expect ‘Tum’, and get it wrong again because it’ll be a ‘ti’? And etc?

Did I misunderstand completly?

Or is the solution like in Synful - that VI analyses the sequence before playback and then corrects things?

Thanks.

Patrick

[Paul]

Hello Patrick,

you got it right, Vienna instruments are real time instruments.

Speed Control analyses the timing of consecutive notes, and there are some cases where it is not the perfect solution, but there´s many different ways to get the result you intend, the simplest being keyswitching or controlling articulations with any MIDI Fader or the ModWheel. You can also use velocity as a controller, so depending on how hard you hit the keys, you get different articulations - in this case you could activate XF Velocity to control the volume you´re triggering.

Examples will be shown in the upcoming video tutorials.

When doing demos, I always ask my listeners to tell me which instrument they always wanted to build and there´s always an easy way to get the right features with easy and intuitive control in Vienna Instruments.... [:D]

Hope that helps.

Best, Paul

[Patrick Ozzard-Low2]

Hi Paul,

Many thanks for your reply.

>>in this case you could activate XF Velocity to control the volume you´re >>triggering.

Did you mean that you could use velocity to control whether its a short or a long sample? The problem is is that in this scenario, which is a very common kind of musical gesture, every note you play will trigger the wrong sample/articulation (that is, a short note rather than a long one, and vice-versa).

That's why I asked whether this is corrected when you _replay_ the sequence (like in Synful). See what I mean? Does it do that too?

Either way, I'm looking forward to the demos...


Patrick

[Paul]

Hi Patrick,

you´re correct with the Velocity Triggering, your velocity qould trigger any note length or articulation you want to be assigned to velocity. There´s no "interpretation" afterwards, you always get what you play....

Of course this can mean, that you practise a little bit before you record, but therefore your playing controls the expression of your part and there´s no surprises afterwards that you cannot influence.

Best, Paul

[Patrick Ozzard-Low2]

Hi Paul,

Many thanks for the clarification.

Looking forward to trying it out!

best wishes,

Patrick