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CharlieCee

CharlieCee

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Is Divisimate primarily used to create ensembles of sections and or full orchestra?
I see the appeal but question whether using libraries I own like BBCSO, Tundra, CSS, CSW and CSB would give more realistic results - Obviously more control for sure.

Thanks for any input.
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CharlieCee said:
Is Divisimate primarily used to create ensembles of sections and or full orchestra?
I see the appeal but question whether using libraries I own like BBCSO, Tundra, CSS, CSW and CSB would give more realistic results - Obviously more control for sure.

Thanks for any input.
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It’s more for sections. Taking your playing and splitting it into separate midi sends (from lowest to highest note) up to 32 parts, which sounds excessive but at times I will send the lowest note plus second lowest to a pad while parts 1-4 might be violins, violas, cellos, and basses for example. If combining many libraries, add woodwinds, percussion, synths, you can use a lot of ports playing with 10 fingers. It also has lower and upper sections that can be customized to play bass or Melodies in their own section of the keyboard. For me it’s a great sketching tool to play to picture then go back to fine tune the performance. Pretty great for making up your own patch combinations and playing them live.

Recently set it up with Pacific Ensemble strings and solo strings, all playing legato together, sounds great and has more dynamics than anything else I own (dozens of string libraries). I use a few foot pedals for dynamics and vibrato which works great.
 
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It’s more for sections. Taking your playing and splitting it into separate midi sends (from lowest to highest note) up to 32 parts, which sounds excessive but at times I will send the lowest note plus second lowest to a pad while parts 1-4 might be violins, violas, cellos, and basses for example. If combining many libraries, add woodwinds, percussion, synths, you can use a lot of ports playing with 10 fingers. It also has lower and upper sections that can be customized to play bass or Melodies in their own section of the keyboard. For me it’s a great sketching tool to play to picture then go back to fine tune the performance. Pretty great for making up your own patch combinations and playing them live.

Recently set it up with Pacific Ensemble strings and solo strings, all playing legato together, sounds great and has more dynamics than anything else I own (dozens of string libraries). I use a few foot pedals for dynamics and vibrato which works great.
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Thanks for that, I'll give it a whirl. I think it would be helpful for hashing things out quickly, as you have suggested. Cheers!
 
CharlieCee said:
Haven't tried it with BBCSO yet but will experiment, so thanks.
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There is a micro version now as well that works as a midi plugin (instead of a full app like the big version). It’s much cheaper but only does 4 parts and doesn’t have the extra features, but it’s a great way to try it out without spending too much. For sketching it’s not a bad tool (I picked it up to try out) but I still prefer the full blown version (up to 32 parts plus bass and melody sections that can be customized). The one advantage the small version has is that it’s saved with the session, the full version has to be opened separately and reloaded from a saved patch each time you open the session. Hopefully they will eventually come up with a full version that can work as a plug-in (vst3?). Perhaps there are limitations to now much the plug-in could do.
 
X-Bassist said:
There is a micro version now as well that works as a midi plugin (instead of a full app like the big version). It’s much cheaper but only does 4 parts and doesn’t have the extra features, but it’s a great way to try it out without spending too much. For sketching it’s not a bad tool (I picked it up to try out) but I still prefer the full blown version (up to 32 parts plus bass and melody sections that can be customized). The one advantage the small version has is that it’s saved with the session, the full version has to be opened separately and reloaded from a saved patch each time you open the session. Hopefully they will eventually come up with a full version that can work as a plug-in (vst3?). Perhaps there are limitations to now much the plug-in could do.
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Well, thanks for that info appreciate it. I'm going to grab the full version anyway as I've been watching a ton of YouTube vids on this, it's impressive. Take care.
 
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