EastWest Hollywood Orchestra Opus Edition Virtual Instrument Plug-In (Download) - Manual (Page 99)

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• With slur legato, the pitch jumps over most of the intervening notes, with only the
start and end of the slide heard in the transition.
For any legato patch to generate a slur or portamento, two notes must have no signifi-
cant time gap between the end of one note and the start of the next. As a consequence
of this rule, as expected, the first note of a phrase has no legato effect at the start of
the note.
By default, all legato instruments are monophonic. By allowing only one note to play
at a time, PLAY makes sure that there is no ambiguity about what two notes should
have a legato transition between them.
It is possible to turn off the monophonic behavior with MIDI CC 22. When in the bot-
tom half of its range, 0–63, the controller preserves the default behavior. But when-
ever CC 22 is in the range 64–127, polyphonic behavior is turned on. You do need to
listen to the output carefully to see whether there are unwanted legato glides between
notes in different polyphonic voices. If so, one remedy is to move those two voices to
separate MIDI tracks.
Legato Slur Staccato
These instruments add a Slur Staccato accent to notes that do not have a legato connection
to the previous note. That is, you can use one of these patches when you want the first note
of each legato phrase to automatically receive a slightly stronger attack.
Legato Bow Change
This folder contains legato instruments that include bow change, either on its own or in
combination with slur legato and/or portamento legato.
During a legato passage, string players sometimes have to change the direction out of neces-
sity and sometimes do so for the effect. Hollywood Strings gives you the option of using this
articulation at any time it suits your needs. The sound of the bow changing direction has a
characteristic sound independent of any slur or portamento.
In the legato instruments that include Bow Change together with Portamento and/or Slur ef-
fects, Opus decides which of the components to play based on the MIDI data, as described
in detail in the Combinations section below.
Keyswitch
Keyswitch (KS) Master instruments can switch between many individual instru-
ments or articulations by playing their respective blue-colored keys (‘keyswitches’)
on the virtual keyboard. When an instrument or articulation is actively selected, its
corresponding keyswitch will be highlighted in yellow. This is one of the fastest ways
to cycle between articulations in real time, and it makes it easy for you to drop notes
into the piano roll and switch articulations after the performance.