legato articulation vs legato script

[amp]

can someone please tell me the what i would use either for. I don't understand why I have an articulation for legato, but then I have a script for legato too. I've set up the CC codes in cubase the same way the manual suggests to be able to activate the legato scripts (which btw, seems extremely fiddly - do I have to draw this in for every legato note I want to hear?), but don't hear any difference. If I just choose the legato articulation, it's ok, but I wouldn't exactly say it's smooth uninterrupted and realistic - much better in the solo violin in Gypsy tho, than I can elicit in my Gold solo violin.

any assistance appreciated

[amp]

anyone?

[lejmer]

Originally Posted by amp

anyone?

What library are you refering to? Symphonic Orchestra?

The legato script fakes a legato when no legato samples are available (although usually not that well). Symphonic Orchestra uses smother transitions in their QLegato and Legato patches, but they aren't true legato. If you own a library like the Solo Violin or Hollywood Strings, the legato patches are the way to go most of the time, since they have actual recorded samples of legato transitions, that are triggered when you change notes.

[amp]

thank you. So if it's better to use the legato patches, what about portemento? I have symphonic orch gold and like using the solo string master patches but apart drawing in a pitch shift, which seems pretty old school, I can't seem to find a way to get a decent portemento.

[lejmer]

Originally Posted by amp

thank you. So if it's better to use the legato patches, what about portemento? I have symphonic orch gold and like using the solo string master patches but apart drawing in a pitch shift, which seems pretty old school, I can't seem to find a way to get a decent portemento.

That's because portamentos can't be emulated realistically. There are portamentos in HS and the Solo Violin though. With Symphonic Orchestra you don't get true legato (portamentos, slurs, bow changes), because when SO was made, good enough computers to handle true legato didn't exist. At least not if you also wanted multiple dynamic levels.

[amp]

Originally Posted by lejmer

That's because portamentos can't be emulated realistically. There are portamentos in HS and the Solo Violin though. With Symphonic Orchestra you don't get true legato (portamentos, slurs, bow changes), because when SO was made, good enough computers to handle true legato didn't exist. At least not if you also wanted multiple dynamic levels.

so is there no way at all to get a portamento out of gold?

[lejmer]

Originally Posted by amp

so is there no way at all to get a portamento out of gold?

Not realistically, no. There are some portamento samples in the 1st violins or 2nd violins I believe, that go a fifth up or down. That might help you with some of your portamentos. But that is, as you can probably imagine, not very helpful most of the time.