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  • Performance tool not working very well

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    Hello,
    I'm having trouble with the performance tool. Can't seam to get it to work with any consistancy. I'll play a legato Violin in my sequencer (DP 3.11) and sometimes it plays smothly and beautifully and other times, no. Velocity and duration don't seam to have any consistant effect. May have something to do with my performance tool setting, but I after experimenting with the release, still no consistancy, In fact, what does the release do? The explanation in the manual is very vague along with...."the pink keys analyze your playing..."????? They do do? Is that why if I play a legato line quickly I get much loader Dynamics? What if I want to play a legato line loud (but NOT Forte) and not fast? I'm trying to write music, not quite slow music and Loud fast music. I've even resorted to step recording lines, in hopes that I'll get a nice, consistant legato performane. To no aval.
    help please,
    MAX
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    H
    Hello Ravel,

    Legato Treshhold slider:

    Here you can define, how long the tool should remain in "legato" modus.
    It helps, if you make short breaks between the keys, that the tool stays in legato mode.

    The default setting is 20 milliseconds. So if a break is longer than 20 millisconds, the tool triggers automatically a starting note.

    If you set a higher value, maybe 300 milliseconds, and your break between two keys is 200 milliseconds, the tool should trigger the right legato sample. But you will get a short pause, and the following legato sample will not fit smooth to the previous note.

    Here you can set the second slider:

    Release Time

    each "note off" will be sent with a delay to Gigastudio. So you can make short breaks between the notes, and the note keeps ringing.

    Best way to be sure, that you trigger the right legato samples, is to hold the first key, play the second key still holding the first key.
    The tool is monophonic, so the first note stops an blends to second note. With this trick you can be sure that you will get legato samples and not a starting note.

    All this options simply depends on your keyboard technique, and how you prefer to play.

    If you are not sure, if everything works well you could send me a short a short mp3 to

    office@vsl.co.at

    It's the most effective to check it out, if everything is OK.


    best wishes
    Herb