Hello everybody!
I'm a new Linnstrument owner (had it for a few weeks now) and have been having a lot of fun playing around with it! I have a background as a pianist and guitarist - with keys I've always missed that I couldn't do a physical vibrato for playing virtual instruments that require it. Being able to change volume on individual notes is also wonderful! I have a couple of questions about issues I've had with consistency of sound - it's entirely possible they're skill issues, and if you think I should be getting in touch with Audio Modelling instead of asking here, please let me know. I did a search of the forum and found some older posts that initially looked promising for help out, but the solutions they offered weren't quite right.
1. Sometimes when I do slides, I get discrete notes like a chromatic scale rather than a smooth slide. This is with the SWAM violin. The pitch bend display in SWAM seems to indicate a smooth slide in both cases. I managed to solve it by switching pitch quantisation off, which I think works pretty well for fretless strings anyway, but was wondering if there's something I was doing that caused the differences in slides. I did experiment with a bunch of movements, plus with different quantisation settings but couldn't perceive what I'd done differently.
2. The second thig is to do with expression level when changing notes. Again with the SWAM violin, the expression drops to zero on each new note even when playing legato, which can make things very choppy. I noticed that using higher velocity can help to counteract this and have occasionally got a really smooth legato. Is this essentially just a skill issue? I'm using the Linnstument preset in SWAM, just with 24 for pitch bend and bow pressure assigned to aftertouch. I did search through the SWAM manual for 'velocity', 'expression', and 'portamento', but couldn't figure out what would help. It seems portamento in SWAM is when playing keyboard and overlapping keys at low velocity and separate from pitch bends.
I did see this video, in which the author explains how he solved this problem for himself: https://youtu.be/nfCPgHoD6ZI?feature=shared
The only issue with that is if I want to play a keyboard and Linstrument simultaneously, so it would be good to find a one-handed solution. I guess an expression pedal would also work for this, but I really like having expression control with my fingers and I think the expression pedal wouldn't work if I had multiple SWAM instruments on different channels, as it would affect them all the same.
Thanks for reading my post, I'll appreciate any answers even if it is just to get better at playing.
I'm a new Linnstrument owner (had it for a few weeks now) and have been having a lot of fun playing around with it! I have a background as a pianist and guitarist - with keys I've always missed that I couldn't do a physical vibrato for playing virtual instruments that require it. Being able to change volume on individual notes is also wonderful! I have a couple of questions about issues I've had with consistency of sound - it's entirely possible they're skill issues, and if you think I should be getting in touch with Audio Modelling instead of asking here, please let me know. I did a search of the forum and found some older posts that initially looked promising for help out, but the solutions they offered weren't quite right.
1. Sometimes when I do slides, I get discrete notes like a chromatic scale rather than a smooth slide. This is with the SWAM violin. The pitch bend display in SWAM seems to indicate a smooth slide in both cases. I managed to solve it by switching pitch quantisation off, which I think works pretty well for fretless strings anyway, but was wondering if there's something I was doing that caused the differences in slides. I did experiment with a bunch of movements, plus with different quantisation settings but couldn't perceive what I'd done differently.
2. The second thig is to do with expression level when changing notes. Again with the SWAM violin, the expression drops to zero on each new note even when playing legato, which can make things very choppy. I noticed that using higher velocity can help to counteract this and have occasionally got a really smooth legato. Is this essentially just a skill issue? I'm using the Linnstument preset in SWAM, just with 24 for pitch bend and bow pressure assigned to aftertouch. I did search through the SWAM manual for 'velocity', 'expression', and 'portamento', but couldn't figure out what would help. It seems portamento in SWAM is when playing keyboard and overlapping keys at low velocity and separate from pitch bends.
I did see this video, in which the author explains how he solved this problem for himself: https://youtu.be/nfCPgHoD6ZI?feature=shared
The only issue with that is if I want to play a keyboard and Linstrument simultaneously, so it would be good to find a one-handed solution. I guess an expression pedal would also work for this, but I really like having expression control with my fingers and I think the expression pedal wouldn't work if I had multiple SWAM instruments on different channels, as it would affect them all the same.
Thanks for reading my post, I'll appreciate any answers even if it is just to get better at playing.
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