EastWest Hollywood Orchestra Opus Edition Virtual Instrument Plug-In (Download) - Manual (Page 92)

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samples are looped so they continue to play as long as the note is held. This combination
provides extra power at the start of the note.
Flautando
Only the 2nd Violins include a Flautando patch. You may find, though, that the Sustain patch
in other sections, when played
pp with no vibrato (i.e., with the Mod Wheel pulled all the way
down), achieves a similar sound.
This is a style of string playing that uses the point of the bow above the fingerboard to create
a breathy, ethereal, non-vibrato sound with a flute-like quality.
This instrument does not include control of finger position or vibrato, nor does it include round
robin samples, as do the other instruments mentioned earlier in this section.
Harmonics
Only the 2nd Violins include a Harmonics patch. This high and whistling sound is generated
when the light touch of a finger at a harmonic node (for example, at exactly half, a third, or
a fourth of the sounding length of the string) causes the bowed string to vibrate at a natural
harmonic of the fundamental tone.
In Hollywood Strings, all harmonics are two octaves above the fundamental, meaning that the
lowest note to sound is G4, two octaves above the open G string, G2.
This instrument does not include control of finger position or vibrato, not does it include round
robin samples, as do some instruments mentioned earlier in this section.
Short
This folder contains a large collection of instruments that encompass the many articula-
tions that string instruments can use to generate short sounds. That includes forms of
plucking the strings with the fingers, bouncing the bow off the strings, and just bowing a
note of short duration. This section describes these short articulations:
• Plucks: Pizzicato and Bartók Pizzicato
• Bounces: Ricochet and Col Legno
• Short Bows: Marcato, Spiccato, various kinds of Staccato
• Repetitions
The Short folder includes a subfolder called “MOD COMBOS.” In here you’ll find several
instruments that allow you to use the Mod Wheel (CC1) to affect which type of articula-
tion plays back.
Pizzicato
Pizzicato is the act of plucking one or more strings at a time to create the characteristic sound.
Although the sound is very brief it can have the power to cut through the loudest of orchestra-
tions.
All 5 sections include a Pizzicato instrument. In each case, it is a round robin instrument with
either 2 or 4 distinct samples for each note. See the instrument names (for example “RRx4”)
to see how many distinct samples are in each round robin.