06-22-2016, 12:32 PM
(This post was last modified: 06-22-2016, 03:41 PM by fabiolcati.)
Hi all.
VSL libraries are short on 2nd string sections and players.
Thus you are faced with the problem of not using the same sample set twice, or more, to avoid phasing and other issues.
Pitch-shifting and transposing tracks, aka The Transposition Trick, is the way out.
Someone suggested the implementation of a built-in button in the Vienna Instrument sample player to perform the trick, while others complaints about missing 2nd sections in such an hi-end library.
While the argument goes on, here's a suggestion for a FX chain/track template with built-in "pitch-trick" to be loaded at need:
Keyswitches need be transposed: it can be done in VI itself.
Be careful not to use the Semitone function of VI because it's slot-oriented: if you load a matrix you should adjust it patch by patch, whereas Pitch wheel is global.
The purpose of theTransposition Trick it's not confined to strings, you can use it for a woodwind or a brass "2" instrument etc.
And since VSL libraries are sampled by half-steps, an instrument/section can be transposed up to four times —plus the one at the original pitch—, whilst for whole-tone sampled VSL Special Editions you can go up or down just one time in each direction.
Also, a time saving procedure in building orchestral templates with Reaper is using Insert > Multiple tracks… creating self numbering of same-name/instrument tracks: you type "Flute", it returns "Flute1" and "Flute2". Then load Transposition Trick template FX chain
into x2 tracks.
As far as transposed instruments sounds a bit richer to me, I use it for 1st players instead.
Hope it helps.
VSL libraries are short on 2nd string sections and players.
Thus you are faced with the problem of not using the same sample set twice, or more, to avoid phasing and other issues.
Pitch-shifting and transposing tracks, aka The Transposition Trick, is the way out.
Someone suggested the implementation of a built-in button in the Vienna Instrument sample player to perform the trick, while others complaints about missing 2nd sections in such an hi-end library.
While the argument goes on, here's a suggestion for a FX chain/track template with built-in "pitch-trick" to be loaded at need:
- ReaControlMIDI (PitchWheel pushed all the way up = +200 cents of VI pitch range = a whole tone); you must set the pertaining envelope to the maximum at the beginning of the track.
In the same plug-in, set semitone transposing to -2.0; notes are played back to their original pitch.
- a blank Vienna Instruments instance to be populated with proper instrument.
Keyswitches need be transposed: it can be done in VI itself.
Be careful not to use the Semitone function of VI because it's slot-oriented: if you load a matrix you should adjust it patch by patch, whereas Pitch wheel is global.
The purpose of theTransposition Trick it's not confined to strings, you can use it for a woodwind or a brass "2" instrument etc.
And since VSL libraries are sampled by half-steps, an instrument/section can be transposed up to four times —plus the one at the original pitch—, whilst for whole-tone sampled VSL Special Editions you can go up or down just one time in each direction.
Also, a time saving procedure in building orchestral templates with Reaper is using Insert > Multiple tracks… creating self numbering of same-name/instrument tracks: you type "Flute", it returns "Flute1" and "Flute2". Then load Transposition Trick template FX chain
into x2 tracks.
As far as transposed instruments sounds a bit richer to me, I use it for 1st players instead.
Hope it helps.
Fabio
VSL SE Strings and Woodwinds; GPO4; Notion3; Reaper5; Tannoy 501.
VSL SE Strings and Woodwinds; GPO4; Notion3; Reaper5; Tannoy 501.
