Anthony Hughes’s excellent series on expression maps has been very enlightening even for those of us with at least some experience making expression maps.
In the most recent one released today, Anthony discusses monophonic legato and uses the Spitfire library to demonstrate how, when the monophonic legato is enabled, it is turned off when double stops are played.
I tried to duplicate that behavior in the Orchestral Tools Berlin Strings library and failed. Could someone please demonstrate how to use the monophonic legato switch with Orchestral Tools? Here’s what I did.
I set up a simple expression map for Berlin Strings Solo Violin 1:
Init = C#0 — This is “Expressive sustains imm” and plays multiple notes
Natural = C#0
Legato = C0 —This is “Expressive sustains imm + LEG.” I checked the monophonic legato box.
If I write slurs over single notes, I get the legato playback technique. However, if I write slurs over double stops, I also get the legato playback technique and the playback is wrong. The only way I can get proper playback of double stops is to select the slurs over the double stops and suppress playback (and extend the notes by hand).
What am I misunderstanding about the monophonic playback switch? Or, does monophonic legato not work with Orchestral Tools implementation?
