Mockup of Bach's Cello Suite using modeled instrument

Not too shabby for a virtual instrument. Can tell you put a lot of work into this!

Very nice. I wonder how this would sound with the SWAM Cello 3. I guess you don't have that instrument? It's a modeled cello too.

Sounds very good! Did you use any CCs other than CC 11? Any lessons you learned when trying to make this sound real?

Composery said:

Very nice. I wonder how this would sound with the SWAM Cello 3. I guess you don't have that instrument? It's a modeled cello too.

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@rohandelivera made a very beautiful version of the first part of Bach's Cello Suite 1, with a Linnstrument as a controler.

tpedraja said:

It's a touch piece to mock up! Hope you like it!

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Very nice! I see and hear that you used bow noise, overtones and fast switches between between sustain, marcato and spiccato. Did you use an existing performance as a model?

Maarten said:

Very nice! I see and hear that you used bow noise, overtones and fast switches between between sustain, marcato and spiccato. Did you use an existing performance as a model?

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Thanks that’s a good observation. I did use a real recording of the piece to get convincing tempo variations. It’s interesting that this resulted in a bell-shaped curve every 2 bars or so which you can see in the video.

mbishop said:

Sounds very good! Did you use any CCs other than CC 11? Any lessons you learned when trying to make this sound real?

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Thanks for the compliment. I would say the big wins came from being attentive to a few things: the dynamics, the note attacks, and the tempo. Those first two are controllable via CC with this particular VST. The hard part is using the controllers well, so it was important for me to have a simple way of managing them. A lot of this is done using an expression maps, and logical editors. You can see the controls in the GUI jump around quickly because the expression map is providing controller values on a per-note basis. Hope that’s helpful!

Maarten said:

@rohandelivera made a very beautiful version of the first part of Bach's Cello Suite 1, with a Linnstrument as a controler.

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Thanks. That is very interesting.

Sounds really good! Would you say this would have been a lot harder to draw in the notes than to play and record? I've never used a sample modeling VI and my piano skills is.. ..somewhat limited.