Legato vs Sustains

[lillosnx]

Hello!
I want to ask your opinion on the necessity of sustain patches in a Template. I mean, other than playing more notes what do these sustain patches offer us that the legato patch does not?
Thanks

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[oboemaroni]

I suppose maybe they get used for polyphonic sketching/playing? I never use them myself, I wish libraries just did more varied or performable legato patches.

 

[lillosnx]

Yes, I guess you are right.
Thank you

 

[Ashermusic]

In some libraries for some passages they simply work better.

 

[lillosnx]

Thank you! I'll consider that too.

 

[Jeremy Spencer]

I typically just play string sections as chords, hence the reason I need sustain patches.

 

[Ashermusic]

I typically just play string sections as chords, hence the reason I need sustain patches.

There are times for that approach but it’s pretty limiting.

 

[Jeremy Spencer]

There are times for that approach but it’s pretty limiting.

Yeah, but I'm lazy

 

[Ashermusic]

Yeah, but I'm lazy

Well, at least you aren’t a phony

 

[shawnsingh]

At least for VSL libraries, sustain patches are sampled with more velocity layers. They usually provide a "legato-sus" patch that quickly crossfades from legato into the sustain patch instead, so that you can take advantage of the sustain velocity layers with a legato patch. But it does come at the cost of being slightly more risky to sound unrealistic than the original legato, because of that crossfade.