PjotrB
July 18, 2020, 5:05pm
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Human violinists don’t have a bag of 20 or 30 different playing techniques and “switch” from one to another. Everything is a continuum, except for a very few either/or options like arco and pizz.
Of course violinists and their teachers have invented a lot of different names for points along that continuum, but isolating them into separate sample sets or key switches doesn’t correspond to the way humans play.
What the world needs is fewer samples and more (and better) modelled instruments IMO. Don’t lose sight of the fact that all this tinkering with huge sample libraries is just a work round
Couldn’t agree more. I can play a hundred different expressions on my cello that would have no name or technical description at all. I wouldn’t even want to have a sample library trying to catch them all.