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  • Using SE matrices as templates for Full Instrument articulations

    PaoloTP
    PaoloTP

    Hi,

    I know this is quite odd, but I'm still exploring around my working habits.

    I compose in Logic Pro with VSL SE libraries, and use the Sibelius presets as my instruments. What I like of these presets, is how clean and logical they are, and how they already include variuos realtime controls over the default presets. Customizing them is very easy.

    I currently have only a single Full Instrument, and what I see is that the Full Instrument presets/matrices are very complicate. That's fine for more advanced work, where you have to deal with huge complexity in some way. But for composing, all this complexity may slow down one's work.

    So, I would like to start from an SE preset as a template, and replace its patches with equivalent patches from the Full Instrument. Additional patches may go to a third row, ready to be selected with an additional keyswitch. Other articulation styles (for example, Flatterzunge) can go to additional cells on the right of the matrix. Other can go in b-slots.

    Is this recommended? I tried by filling the SE Alto Sax preset with the Full Soprano Sax patches. It seems to work, but maybe there are some dynamic range adjustement to take care of? Are matrix programming, inside each instrument family, coherent, or each instrument has its own deep programming?

    Thank you for your hints!

    Paolo
  • Fabio BiolcatiF
    Fabio BiolcatiF

    From the standpoint of a inexperienced VSL SE user, I think your workflow is absolutely legal.

    I also saved presets from notation software to seamlessly move scores into DAW and moulded my own ones on them: "vertically" a matrix for basic articulations — c9 sustains, c#9 slurs etc.; "horizontally" cells and rows for patches. This way I can add articulations and patch combinations I don't took into consideration from the beginning — or I learned how to manage afterwards.
    As far as "a sustain is a sustain is a sustain" for every kind of intrument, I only need to add cells to house what differentiates one class from another, eg. SE has two detache lenghts for Strings but just one portato for Woodwinds: they stay in the same d9 row labeled as Short.
    I guess presets for Full Instruments can sprout up from SE's the same way.

    Lucky guy you are being able to compose straight into samples.

    VI Special Edition 1-3, Reaper, MuseScore 3, Notion 3 (collecting dust), vst flotsam and jetsam
  • PaoloTP
    PaoloTP

    Thank you very much, Fabio. As I see, each one is trying to customize VSL according to one own's needs and preferences. Starting from the basic arrangement, common to all instruments.

    Paolo