Expression Maps

[SampoKasurinen]

@dko22

@sakasuri

I’m very glad to hear that!

At the moment I’m controlling the legato (of CSS) with custom playing techniques that set the note velocities to desired values for each type of legato. This is possible because of the velocity (and CC) ranges, thank you for that!

Could you explain exactly how you do this as setting different velocities in the EM seems key to getting CSS to work in Dorico. Of course you can set specific MIDI values if using a CC controller to control these dynamics but I don’t see how you’re doing it with velocity. Can you simply remap the velocity control to CC or is there an issue with this. With the sale coming up, I’m strongly tempted to give the library a try.

I simply set secondary dynamic as velocity and give it a very narrow range (for example 1-2 for portamento). But there are couple drawbacks:

1. in CSS first note of a legato phrase uses the velocity for the attack. Therefore the playing technique has to start after the first note. You can also put a small negative offset for the first note, then the playing techique above it doesn’t affect it. (I don’t know if it’s supposed to work like that)

2. at the end of the phrase, you have to extend the playing technique couple of beats over the last note. Otherwise you will hear the release from the non-legato patch as EM switches off legato.

So in a nutshell, I’ve created playing techniques called “portamento”, “slow legato”, “med legato” and “fast legato”. Then in expression maps, I set the secondary dynamic velocity ranges so that the correct legatos are triggered. I’ve also added a pedal (CC64=127) to these playing techniques, this will trigger the re-bow in case of a repetition. Then in the score, you place the desired playing technique over the legato phrase and add correct amount of offset to every note but the first one.