EastWest Hollywood Orchestra Opus Edition Virtual Instrument Plug-In (Download) - Manual (Page 94)

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Staccato
The term “staccato” refers to any note of short duration that is not connected legato to the
following note. In this listing, it is more narrowly used to signify any short, bowed note not
included in one of the earlier-listed articulations.
Hollywood Strings includes the following types of Staccato articulations:
• plain Staccato
• Staccato On Bow
• Staccato in which the Mod Wheel can be used to change to Marcato
• Staccatissimo
The instrument named Staccato On Bow captures the sound of short notes in which the bow
does not lift off the string at the end of the bow but, instead, comes to a full stop. This creates
the distinctive sound of the bow stopping its movement at the end of each note.
Staccatissimo is otherwise like Staccato, but with notes of even shorter duration.
The instrument named Staccato Marcato MOD cross-fades between staccato and marcato
samples. It allows the user to increase the strength of the accent on some notes within a part
by pushing up the Mod Wheel (or increasing the value of MIDI CC 1 in a sequencer envelope).
All the staccato patches are Round Robin instruments with in-the-range-of 9–16 sets of sam-
ples in rotation.
Shorts MOD SPEED
This instrument, found in the MOD COMBOS subfolder, allows you to use the Mod Wheel to
move continuously among several short articulations. As you push the Mod Wheel up from the
bottom, the articulations you hear are, in order:
• Staccatissimo
• Staccato
• Staccato on Bow
• Marcato Short
This Shorts MOD SPEED instruments include 8 distinct samples in their round robins.
Repetitions
In this instrument, the section plays the same note repeatedly about a dozen times in quick
succession. For fewer repetitions, end the note before the end of the sample. This sequence of
notes is slower than a tremolo. And it’s more realistic than just playing the same staccato note
multiple times because you get the sound of the bow changing direction between notes. Unlike
most instruments in the Short folder, this one does include release trails
This is not a Round Robin instrument. If you do repeat a MIDI note—perhaps because you
need more repetitions than are recorded in the samples—the listener will hear the last repeti-
tion followed by the first one, so there’s no concern about mechanically identical notes follow-
ing each other.