Vir2 Instruments Electri6ity Manual - Manual (Page 24)

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ELECTRI6ITY | GETTING STARTED | STEP 3 | PLAY MODES
ELECTRI6ITY can be played in three modes: polyphonic (‘POLY’),
monophonic (‘SOLO’), and legato (‘LEGATO’). The polyphonic mode allows
chord playing and strumming, while monophonic and legato modes do not.
All the articulations covered in the previous chapter can be used in the first
two modes. The legato mode, however, is special: it automatically selects
sustain notes, hammer ons, pull offs or single fret slides according to your
playing, which results in very fluid legato lines without needing to manually
choose the correct articulation for every note you play, which is difficult
when playing a real-time solo.
MODE KEYSWITCH
Poly F#0
Solo G#0
Legato Muted A#0 - keyswitch played soft
Legato A#0 - keyswitch played hard
HINT: you might have noticed that a slight amount of additional latency
is noticeable in POLy, but not in SOLO and LEGAtO mode. Here is the
reason why:
if you play a chord on the keyboard, usually each key might arrive
slightly earlier or later than the other keys of the chord. to compensate
for this sloppiness and to correctly detect a chord, the engine has to
wait for all chord notes to arrive. By default, this time defaults to 24ms.
However, if you play very accurately, you can lower the detection time.
Go to the ‘Settings Page’ , select ‘calibration’ and change the ‘chord
Detection | time’ parameter. the chord detection is only active in Poly
mode, since Solo and Legato are monophonic modes and require no
chord detection.
if you mainly use the library in a sequencer environment, you can switch
‘chord Detection | Mode’ on the same page to ‘Sequencer (POLy, SOLO,
LEGAtO)’ . this has two benefits when working in a sequencer: first, you
can adjust the timing of all ELEctRi6ity MiDi tracks to compensate for
the delay, and second, you can mix chords with legato and solo lines
without needing to switch the play mode to Poly. the suggested latency
compensation time is displayed, if you click on the
‘Setup’ button on the
‘Performance Page’