VI Tips&Tricks 3
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21. Up-Stroke / Down-Stroke
Many musicians have the question "How can I set the bow direction of the String-Samples?"
We can't control the bow direction with the VI. There are some variations for certain samples but the Vienna Instrument chooses them automatically.
Even if we could select a sample which was recorded with "up- or down- bow" I believe that the difference of the sound between such samples isn't that big.
I assume that the continual change of articulations and also of the volume has more influence on the result than different samples for up and down stroke.
The following excerpt of Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto in e-minor shall prove this thesis.
bk_up_down_bow.mid [4 KB]
/ bk_up_down_bow.mp3 [634 KB]
/ bk_up_down_bow_3.gif
bk_up_down_bow_1.jpg
/ bk_up_down_bow_2.jpg
/ keyswitches-organisation-vi-solo-violin.pdf [23 KB]
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You have the possibility to download the midi file. The notes below the melody are key switches.
Each key switch means "another articulation".
Check also the variation of the velocity between the notes (with the midi-file).
All of these matters lead to a natural result.
So up- and down- bow samples are not really necessary any more.
Precondition for good results: You need to have a lot of different articulations (...Extended Library).
Key Switches (pdf) [23 KB]
used for this piece
Another Example
Give the "Downbow-Note" a bit more an accent (higher velocity level) and you will get a nice simulation of "downbow"
Leroy Anderson, arr. B. Kaufmann
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