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Crudebyte Oriental Strings - Legato/Various articulations?

Isolator707Isolator707
in General App Discussion

Hi all, I picked up a Oriental Strings on sale for Black Friday, definitely a steal for a couple bucks. I was just wondering if anybody knew how I can use legato articulations and alternate articulations for realistic sounds? If anybody could share their workflow, specifically using it as an audio unit, I would be reasonably grateful.

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Isolator707

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  • DCJDCJ

    Sadly I really don’t think there is. I hope someone proves me wrong. While you can have several different parts triggered via different midi channels, I don’t find anything realistic in legato land because the samples don’t match well. Same goes for iSymphonic which has a lot more going on, sound-wise. Even the legato patches don’t sound very legit in my opinion.

  • Isolator707Isolator707

    @DCJ said:
    Sadly I really don’t think there is. I hope someone proves me wrong. While you can have several different parts triggered via different midi channels, I don’t find anything realistic in legato land because the samples don’t match well. Same goes for iSymphonic which has a lot more going on, sound-wise. Even the legato patches don’t sound very legit in my opinion.

    Thanks! I suppose i’ll have to play around with it some more

  • CracklePotCracklePot

    I think you have to load a different type of instrument/sample set. You can see that some of the instrument presets have articulation types in the names. Since this app is AU, I suppose you could load up multiple instances with different articulation types in each and try to trigger the correct articulation when you need to using some Midi channel mapping or some other overly-complicated scenario, but that would be quite daunting to attempt for less experienced users such as myself.

  • rickwaughrickwaugh

    This is a problem on iOS in general, finding an app where you can use key switches, essentially, to swap which sample you're using, by phrase or note. It's normal on desktops, in DAWs and notation software such as Sibelius.

  • JonLewisJonLewis

    The Strings and Guitar touch instruments have a kind of key switching, and of course Notion does, but I wish some other ios instruments would address this.

  • JonLewisJonLewis

    Meant to say, the Strings and Guitar touch instruments in Garageband.

  • ModerndaycompilerModerndaycompiler

    It is a tough problem for even the best software and sample libraries on a computer to handle. Just too many possibilities IMHO. Barns and Nobles used to sell the full score to Stravinsky's Rite of Spring for less than $20. Find a copy of that and be prepared to see all sorts of articulations, muting, harmonics, and the 4 main string sections subdivided themselves doing different techniques.

    http://beststudentviolins.com/terms.html#articulation

  • SkillipEvolverSkillipEvolver

    I think this is different to your problem but my problem with iSymphonic was that very few of the samples had quick enough attack for me. -being strings, I thought it'd be my best app choice for classic disco string 'drops' on iOS. I plonked for 3 IAPs on a bit of a gamble I guess but t never really worked out for me. Everything has its use though...

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