Yeah, I've seen that Video by Christian Hensen. Chamber Strings performance Legato is crazy... good! See Paul Thompson manipulate automation performance for optional Vibrato and Speed controls in the Ensemble patch...ksutton1207 wrote: ↑Thu Mar 14, 2019 12:25 pm
Thank you, Dave! Some great advice and I totally agree.
Funny you mention Spitfire... I'm using one of their libraries.I went back and found a few videos by one of their founders, Christian, on how to program realistic sounding strings (Part 1 and 2). What's immediately apparent is that he has his fingers on at least two automation faders at any given time, usually expression and dynamics at a minimum. I went back and re-tracked automation on these tracks and I think it's helped tremendously.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IpNvHsTZnRs
FYI, or for others who might not know:
MIDI CC#11 Expression is just a second volume control. CC#7 is the main Volume. CC#11 Expression doesn't change an instrument patch's timbre, just volume. Spitfire usually default sets their 'Dynamics' button to control an instrument's timbre changes (usually assigned to CC#1 Modulation). The virtual libraries each do their own thing and slap names on their controllers, but they all leave it to you to assign MIDI CC# to whatever MIDI controller you want.