[notes for vyolynz.1bk]


...the string-patches are based on Manny's
string-models (the roads not taken). The names can be traced back to his
original voices. My additions have to do with 'proper' effects- and
controller-settings, timbre-tweaking and programming
absorption/damping/tonguing/growl/throat to get all sorts of interesting
timbral variations, specifically mutes, trills and flageolets. Another
thing
I did was take the measurements of a real violin and applying them with
the
aid of the resonator.

Violin;

length body             -       36 cm   -       1,059 msec.
width lower end         -       20,5 cm -       0,603 msec.
width upper half        -       16 cm   -       0,471 msec.
width middle section    -       10,5 cm -       0,309 msec.
height middle           -       5,5 cm  -       0,162 msec.
height edge             -       4,0 cm  -       0,118 msec.

>From the fact that a viola-body has an average lengh of 42,23 cm I
extrapolated the othe dimensions.

The body of a cello has a length of 76,2 cm and a height measured on the
edge of 11,43 cm. The other dimensions were, again, extrapolated from
violin-measurements.

The resonator can't be adjusted that finely, and afterward I tried to vary
the settings to get a more even sound across the pitch-range of the
instrument. In some cases I preferred a violin-model with a viola-type
resonator. It helped to add an extra resonator-delay to give a sound more
'space'.

All string voices can be changed drastically by adding varying amounts of
of
continuous slider 1 and 2. Aftertouch is routed to vibrato-depth and
speed,
mod 1 to growl-amount and speed. Interesting textural things can be done
by
increasing x-fade and interpolate speed in the elements settings,
especially
with large amounts of throat.


Wietze Krikke