Appassionata Legato and Portamento question

[sgentry]

Just got the Appassionata Strings installed and they sound great!

One question, is there any way with the App Strings to get the portamento articulation other than through the A/B switch? With the Orch Strings the legato and portamento patches could be put in separate cells. I currently switch between cells via midi channel data (following the Jerome's suggestion a few months back) and would like to continue doing that to switch between articulations, including legato and portamento with App Strings if possible.

Thanks,
Steven

[herb]

A/B switch only.
But you can assign any controller to A/B switch.

best
Herb

[Guy Bacos]

Sgentry,


If you have the leg/porta in one cell with the A switch and the 2nd cell the same inst with the B switch doesn't it come to the same?

[sgentry]

Thanks for the replies.

Guy, yes, that is what I would like to do. However, I don't want to send any type of A/B switch from my sequencer, but rather control the articulation via a channel switch like I do all other articulation switches. This was possible with the Orchestral Strings 1/2 because the legato and portamento were in their own dedicated cells.

What would help here is if there was a way to assign the A/B state in a cell in the VI directly. Then I could load one cell with the A state and the next cell with the B state of the same patch, and then just switch between legato and portamento with a MIDI channel change.

However, from Herb's reply it doesn't look like this is possible with the current VI.

I wrote an MFX plug that does the cell switching so I guess I will have to add some more logic that sends the A/B switch info with the cell switch data.

Thanks,
Steven