Ensemble legato
Hello, first of all I want to thank you again for such an amazing library (the gratitude can't be expressed enough)
But even after the update, I'm still having an issue with the ensemble legato transitions. I mean, the velocity and CC work as expected, prolonging the legato times, but the main problem is that every player (in the virtual ensemble) changes the note in the exact same moment, or too close to each other, which doesn't sound realistic at all. I know you said something about randomizing up to 90 ms, but it's just not happening. Instead of a fluid legato transitions I have a noticeable volume gap between notes as if all the virtual players change the bow direction, even if I want slur legato. And it's not in detaché mode. The same goes for portamento, there is a little volume drop in the transition and all the virtual players play the same pitch at once. Here is a quick example going from low velocity to high and back. The gap is the most noticeable in the mid velocities
In a real ensemble, every player plays the legato transition with a different speed and it's almost impossible to have two players synchronized 100%. In other sample libraries the legato transitions are somehow more fluid, smooth. One is not able to recognize where the note ends and where another one begins. This should be controllable by the user as well in the brightest scenario. Is there something I can do about it now? Temporarily I solve it by adding another track with solo instruments shifted by 50 ms upfront. Works good but it's kinda uncomfortable.
I just want to add that this is one of only two things that remain to make this library 100% perfect and irreplaceable. The other one is round robin attacks. That "psycho" demo you uploaded recently sounds really funny and not realistic at all :)) But I guess it's just a wrong usage of the script by the author :)
Comments
In your example even the usually not synchronized vibratos of the player seem to get synchronized uring the legato phase.
-Michael
Yes, it's the Expressive Vibrato settings. Does it affect legato as well then?
Another example. Just to point out how unrealistically the legatos are programmed. When using half-step and full-step trill, it sounds really great, relaxed and most of all - realistic. But when stepping a little further, the realism stops and it's pure synthesis.
Again - I'm not complaining, this library is one of the best things that ever happened to this world, but this is really a pain in the arse :)
The same randomizing method that is used in halfstep and fullstep trills should be used all the time