Something that I do not understand about VSL artificial harmonics is why they are mapped as they are.
Let's consider an artificial harmonic on the G-string of the violin, the one achieved by fingering a note and then touching the string a perfect fourth above that, indicated by a normal notehead for the lower pitch and a diamond notehead for the upper pitch. On the violin the lowest artificial harmonic of this type is a concert pitch of Ab5, two octaves above Ab3 (the lowest fingered pitch on the G-string of the violin). When you play the midi note for this Ab5 pitch using the Vl_harm-art_sus patch, the concert pitch that results is Ab6, one octave higher.
This causes no end of problems when using notation software that correctly maps the diamond artificial harmonic notation to the correct concert pitch, because then all of the harmonics in the score sound an octave higher than they should.
Why was this decision made?
Thanks,
Michael