Electronic Musician

Exploring alternative violin articulations

01 Here, we program a string ensemble for Violins, Violas and Cellos, using dedicated instrument patches from Vienna Symphonic Library’s Dimension Strings, with plenty of controller data to sculpt velocity crossfading and volume, per part. Here, we add a high ‘regular’ Violin 1 part from the same sample library.

02 We choose something a little less conventional as our first ‘alternative’ top line. Using Spitfire Audio’s Ólafur Arnalds Chamber Evolutions library, we

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