How do I use more than 16 articulations with Expression Maps?

Dorico
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Hi guys,

I’m trying to create an expression map for Spitfire Symphonic Strings. My setup is to load a kontakt instance where each articulation is a different channel, and I use expression maps to trigger the correct channel. Kontakt only allows 16 channels in a single instance, however. Does anybody know a way to add more articulations than can fit into a single instance of Kontakt? The violin patch has 20-something articulations.

Thanks for any assitance!

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Aren’t articulations normally contained within the same sample “instrument”/channel, and triggered by key switches, rather than having them separately on different ones?

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I would say most of them are, yes. I do know that EWQL have a variety of different patches with specific articulations or you can use one of the Keyswitch patches.

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If you use VEP you might be able to sort something out using Ports etc but I might be mistaken.

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Yes, a lot of libraries will have a track where you can keyswitch between different articulations. But in the case where you don’t want those preset articulations, you would create a assign each individual articulation a channel in your instance of Kontakt. Unfortunately, only 16 are available I believe.

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Thanks Daniel, I’ll look into it. I’ve managed to avoid VEP up till now but maybe I need to start researching it a little more.

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Each instance of the Spitfire player can have multiple patches/articulations.

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It looks from the docs posted by @Eggsalad that it ought to be easy enough to access several different articulations (up to eight, it appears) from a single channel in Kontakt, so you shouldn’t need more than 16 channels. If there are 20 or so techniques in a given patch, three channels in Kontakt should be sufficient.

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This seems to be an unnecessary constraint. Have you considered using Spitfire’s UACC CC#s to switch articulations? I find it very effective.

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