At the moment I’m playing around with the VSL Synchron Orchestra. I spent much of yesterday adding woodwinds and brass to a piece I had strings, piano and drums on. The drums and piano are not VSL. The strings were sort of ok but areas not what I’d really like. For the love of me I could not get the trombones to play nice. They always ripped through too strong. I went to the piano roll and judiciously set all the velocities really concentrating on the offending notes to no avail.

Ah well go look at the tutorials for VSL Synchron.

Oops, the velocity settings in the piano roll have little effect on patch velocity. In the Synchron Player velocity is set using the Vel XF fader which I had set way too high and reasonably stable (more as a volume type thing) getting the blast area of the trombones (and strings really). To fix this is easy. I just need to use CC2 (the Breath Control CC used to control the Vel XF in Synchron). This does in fact give better control.

The point being there is an answer and it is often a simple matter of reading the manual (you know the extra rubbish PDF that clutters your drive that they always seem to send you) or going through the tutorials often presented by the manufacturer.

Have fun
Tony

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