Spitfire SSO Solo Strings: How to trigger legato

[Michael_Johnson]

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?

Thanks for your help. So frustrating.

[mila5405]

Hi Michael,

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

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