Approaches to Divisi
I've been been enjoying SM strings a ton, and for the most part, the double-stop legato gets me by in cases of laziness. I'm worried about 4-part or 5-part divisi, while more rare, 2 and 3 part divisi definitely is not.
It seems like the sub-instrument design of the software would potentially allow for an easy approach to at least 2 part or 3 part divisi with accurate "reduction" in ensemble size/volume, but I'm assuming a lot about the functionality of those sub-instruments, and we know what assuming does .. ;)
Has anybody had luck with turning down the ens. size CC and running multiple, say 3 tracks of Violin 1 to allow for more complicated/less physically inaccurate divisi writing? My main concern is phase issues that might arise via such an approach. I'd imagine the phasing is lessened if the "temporal dispersion" is slightly different per divisi section (e.g. slightly different values for ens. size CC)
If anyone has done the above mentioned process, I'd love to hear their results, and anyone else's general ruminations on the matter.
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Hmm, my laziness suggests to use a CC to control ensemble size, so you are only using one track with large ensemble size for unison segments, turning down the CC and introducing other tracks for divisi only.