Alternate Non-Legato Key 1 and 2. These keys provide alternate sustaining samples when pressed. You can toggle between the Default and Alternate Sustain articulations by pressing these keys between notes. This is good for repeating the same note within a phrase. Instead of triggering a fresh starting note, you can trigger one of these alternate samples.

Legato Threshold Time. This setting can help the Legato Mode rule adapt to your performance technique on the keyboard. The threshold sets the time in which the tool will recognize two consecutive notes as a legato transition. Experiment with this setting until it works best for you. Ideally, the Release Time and Threshold Time should be set to the same value.

Release Time. This sets the delay time of the note-off. This value should match the Legato Threshold setting.

Mapping and creating a Legato Mode instrument

The raw material for a Legato Mode instrument will include the following sets of samples:

Default Sustain samples. You need some basic long sustaining samples to serve as your default samples. This is the articulation that plays first before sliding to another note.

Release Trigger samples. If you want to have the natural sound of the instrument release or some natural room or hall ambience, you will need to create some standard release trigger samples. This is usually done by creating a copy of the sustain samples and then deleting everything except the tail. Release Trigger samples are optional.

Alternate Sustain samples. There is room in a Legato Mode instrument for two alternate variations of the sustaining samples. Alternate Sustain amples are optional.

Legato Samples. To do a complete Legato Mode instrument, you will need recordings of the instrument sliding to and from every interval for every note. The recording starts on the original note, then slides to the interval and holds the note. The length of this hold should match the Default Sustain samples. The samples are then trimmed right at the slide leaving a little bit of the original note in the samples. As with the Release Trigger samples, a little experimenting will be necessary to get the right sound. To save sample space and recording time, you can skip every other note or every third note as is done with other samples. You don’t want to go further than every third note though, or the timing of the slides will be too noticeable. The end result needs to be 24 folders of legato samples, 12 up and 12 down.

The articulations listed above need to be mapped in a strict order, using a 32-split Smart MIDI dimension. One way to go about this is to create individual instruments for each articulation (sustain, release, etc.) and then use the Combine Instruments function to assemble them in the proper order.

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4 specifications

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