Hey, Friends. I’m using Spitfire Symphony Orchestra’s new solo strings and I’m trying to trigger the legato patch but I can’t get it to work.
For the Solo Violin patch, I have my KONTAKT player set up with both the “all techniques”(Channel 1) and “performance” patches (Channel 2). In my expression map in Dorico I have the articulations set up, with UACC 32 and then the CC number of the articulation, plus a channel switch that corresponds to the MIDI channel in the KONTAKT multi. In both instruments I have UACC & UI only selected.
When I select the MIDI channels for each patch in the KONTAKT player, I get no sound. When I select omni in both patches, the following occurs:
When I write a slur, playback is silent. When I write pizz., the instrument play pizz., but then stays pizz. and doesn’t switch to legato at the next slur. What am I doing wrong?
I’m a new user of Spitfire Symphonic Orchestra, currently working with it in Dorico 6. I was wondering if you ever got your question resolved—if not, maybe we could figure it out together.
I’ve started building an Expression Map that I’ve named SSO Strings. I’m using the UACC & UC setting in KONTAKT (although it should work fine in other formats too).
Would this be of interest to you?
Best regards, Mikael Landberg
Uddevalla School of the Arts
Sorry to have taken so long to reply. I have been busy these past few months. No, I never got SSO to work with Dorico 6. I’d be happy to slog through it with you if you have time. I also am having a problem getting Spitfire Solo Strings to work. In the second case, they have two different patches for legato and the other articulations and it’s really frustrating.
the solo strings are certainly strange. The Performance Patch UACC mapping on the instruments reads 0 on the UI instead of 20 with every other instrument but 20 actually still works – in fact both do, whereas 0 certainly doesn’t work elsewhere! What doesn’t work is the logical setting to UACC KS &UC which I generally use for all the orchestra instruments. You must set “Articulation locked” then the legato does work.
I understand there is to be a new update to the SSO before too long so it’s not inconceivable that some of these oddities will be ironed out so I don’t want to get too involved in speculations which are not concrete problems in my own projects– there are enough of those already. Despite the inconsistencies I love this library to bits and have converted 11 of my 18 symphonies as a first choice.
It appears your questions were never answered unless replies were somehow private. I’m doing the same thing with ‘all techniques’ on MIDI 1 and ‘performance’ on MIDI 2. Here is the expression map I’m using. One small caveat: It’s a pain if you’re using independent voice playback (IVP) but works great otherwise. There’s a separate entry for pizzicato because I couldn’t get it to work any other way.
I’m still working to figure out why this doesn’t work consistently with IVP.
As a side note, I’m routing both patches to the same out, because with a single player single note, you can’t play two at the same time anyway.
By the way, this works for most articulations without specifically mapping every single articulation you want to use with a few exceptions.
