Tremolo playback (marimba)

Dorico
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Just picked up the VSL VI Percussion full library (on offer till the end of the month) and headed straight to the marimba.

It has separate patches for single-note tremolo, and chord tremolo. I don’t really use single-note trems (to date at least), so set up the Expression Map to switch to the chord trem patch – and Dorico handles that.

But as well as switching to the patch, playback is implementing a generated trem, which just sounds silly. I see in the playback options the distinction is made for trills – generated or sampled – but trems aren’t mentioned.

Any enlightenment available?

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I believe provided your expression map makes clear that the patch is a performed unmeasured tremolo by way of the appropriate playback technique, Dorico won’t also generate lots of repeated notes.

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Thanks Daniel. I might ask the forum for views about the measured vs unmeasured thing because, in my innocence, I haven’t really come across it before. For the present, though, can I declare a default? If not, then how do I indicate one or the other in a specific instance such as this?