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Abbey Road One Selections/Foundation Info

Hat_Tricky said:
Does Soaring High strings have more then 1 legato type (depending on the velocity of the connected note?)

In the walkthrough video, I'm hearing the expected slurred legato, but when notes seem to be played with a higher velocity or quicker, they sound like a "legato run" type quicker transition without the micro-portamento. CSS works like this, giving you 3 different legato transitions, depending on the velocity of the connected note.

I don't own own Soaring Strings, but am looking to get it on sale - $34 seems like a no brainer. I only own Abbey Road Foundations, and CSS for strings. Thoughts?
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The specs are on the product page. It pairs well with CSS. No brainer indeed. :)
 
Hat_Tricky said:
Does Soaring High strings have more then 1 legato type (depending on the velocity of the connected note?)
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Yes, It has 2. The half slurred half portamento legato and a run legato. The former is triggered by playing normally at any velocity. The later is triggered by plating fast (basically, doing runs).

It also has two controls that affects the legato: the release control and a legato offset. Look at the manual for more info.
 
syrinx said:
The specs are on the product page. It pairs well with CSS. No brainer indeed. :)
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Francisco Lamolda said:
Yes, It has 2. The half slurred half portamento legato and a run legato. The former is triggered by playing normally at any velocity. The later is triggered by plating fast (basically, doing runs).

It also has two controls that affects the legato: the release control and a legato offset. Look at the manual for more info.
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Yeah it seems like, in the walkthough, when Paul is playing slowly but at low velocity has a non-slurred legato, maybe i'm just hearing things.
 
Its sounds beautifully, but the bumpy legato in some of the intervalls is irritating. Its duable to reduce it with mixing though.
 
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Thuen88 said:
Its sounds beautifully, but the bumpy legato in some of the intervalls is irritating. Its duable to reduce it with mixing though.
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Yeah, for low dynamics I'd recommend only using the sustains since the legato is probably only recorded with a higher dynamic layer. The focus is obviously on lyrical soaring melodic lines so I think they designed the lower dynamics to be used more for crescendos/diminuendos rather than pianissimo legato playing.
 
Does anyone else with the Grand Brass Selection notice a strange high harmonic frequency on the "Soaring Legato" patch (The one that mixes the horns with the cello). I can't isolate it, or see anything out of place on the spectrogram in Izotope RX, but maybe it's somewhere around 5500.00 herz, it sounds a bit like a cricket chirping, or maybe some sample rate glitching.

Or am I just hearing some natural resonance in the room or harmonics from the instruments or something?

Or just going mad?

(I've included a quick .wav example)
 

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Hooo said:
Does anyone else with the Grand Brass Selection notice a strange high harmonic frequency on the "Soaring Legato" patch (The one that mixes the horns with the cello). I can't isolate it, or see anything out of place on the spectrogram in Izotope RX, but maybe it's somewhere around 5500.00 herz, it sounds a bit like a cricket chirping, or maybe some sample rate glitching.

Or am I just hearing some natural resonance in the room or harmonics from the instruments or something?

Or just going mad?

(I've included a quick .wav example)
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I don't have the instrument, but you're not going mad. It's definitely there in the snippet you've posted. Seems to be about 3 octaves above the notes being played, most noticeably the last note - could be Bb7 around 3.7khz. Sympathetic resonance of music stands? :-)
 
I'm able to repro this but its not as pronounced as your example. But it is definately there - good catch!Are you EQing to emphasise? I get why you would - to demo it. I can hear this artifact in the mix 1, and most of all in the tree 1 and a little in the tree 2 mics, especially when the mod wheel is at full. You should report this to Spitfire for sure, in the meantime, I wonder if you can use the mics to work around this for now?

It does sound a bit like a sympathetic resonance. Or some other signal- / level-reactive noise.
 
Thanks - I'm glad it's not just me! I didn't do any EQ to emphasise the frequency in my example. I'll raise a ticket with Spitfire and see what they say :)

For now I'll just use other instruments for that combination, but other than that strange frequency it's a good sound so it would be a shame if nothing can be done.
 
Hooo said:
Thanks - I'm glad it's not just me! I didn't do any EQ to emphasise the frequency in my example. I'll raise a ticket with Spitfire and see what they say :)

For now I'll just use other instruments for that combination, but other than that strange frequency it's a good sound so it would be a shame if nothing can be done.
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You should def try playing with the mics - I had to work to repro the bug, so a bit of a mic tweak will likely work well to hide it - maybe try a mic mix that removes all Tree 1 and avoids Mix 1 and Tree 2 if you can.
 
Anyone know how to delete mic positions? Trying to make some space on the drive and I remember being able to delete it before with the suffixes in the sample names, but now it looks like they've gotten rid of them? I am looking at the Mysterious Reeds and Vibrant Reeds libraries. Looks like the samples in a different format.
 
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