"Issue" with 8Dio Intimate Studio Strings legato?

They don’t loop the Lagato transitions on most, if not all of the libraries I have from them. IIRC.

Thanks @Jrides . So the single note is looped but not the legato transition to a different note? I thought that was quite weird. Thanks for letting me know!

Just go into your piano roll and get rid of the note overlap on the note you want to end with.

Thanks @robgb . I thought about that, but it sounds limiting. I was thinking about a song in which I want to do "dramatic" passages of two notes (da-raaaaaaaaaa, da-raaaaaaaaaaa, you get the idea . I simply cannot do that with this library.

I think I will kindly request a refund in this case.
Thanks for your help, I thought I was doing something wrong or I had an issue downloading the samples or something

BosquesDeMiMente said:

Thanks @robgb . I thought about that, but it sounds limiting. I was thinking about a song in which I want to do "dramatic" passages of two notes (da-raaaaaaaaaa, da-raaaaaaaaaaa, you get the idea . I simply cannot do that with this library.

I think I will kindly request a refund in this case.
Thanks for your help, I thought I was doing something wrong or I had an issue downloading the samples or something

Click to expand...

This has been discussed quite a bit on here at times. Especially the Claire woodwinds. I think the developers perspective, and the consensus settled on here, was that in the real world, a player cannot hold a note indefinitely, coming out of a legato transition. You should embrace this, if you want to write, realistic music, or something like that.


easier to shrug your shoulders, and except with brass and woodwinds. However, the infamous bow change does exist in real life, with strings. That being said, I don’t own enough libraries to know if Bo change Lagato is a standard. Usually when a library includes it, they call it out, so I suspect it might be considered more of a bonus feature still at this point?

Jrides said:

This has been discussed quite a bit on here at times. Especially the Claire woodwinds. I think the developers perspective, and the consensus settled on here, was that in the real world, a player cannot hold a note indefinitely, coming out of a legato transition. You should embrace this, if you want to write, realistic music, or something like that.


easier to shrug your shoulders, and except with brass and woodwinds. However, the infamous bow change does exist in real life, with strings. That being said, I don’t own enough libraries to know if Bo change Lagato is a standard. Usually when a library includes it, they call it out, so I suspect it might be considered more of a bonus feature still at this point?

Click to expand...

Even the famous composers got that wrong from time to time.

Jrides said:

I think the developers perspective, and the consensus settled on here, was that in the real world, a player cannot hold a note indefinitely, coming out of a legato transition.

Click to expand...

This makes sense to me, although it doesn't quite make sense with strings. In any case, I'd like the note coming out of the transition to be slightly longer.

robgb said:

This makes sense to me, although it doesn't quite make sense with strings. In any case, I'd like the note coming out of the transition to be slightly longer.

Click to expand...

I kind of agree, it does not make that much sense for strings. Indeed, every single library I've ever had until now had looped legato notes, and it never occurred to me that it made them less realistic, but then again, my ear is terrible, so I'm not the best one to judge this.

Thanks a lot for your help and feedback

This is something that is there in a lot of their products. I think the Anthology, Century series does not have this issue. This has also carried over to Soundpaint where all their woodwind libraries have this limitation and it is quite annoying at times. I don't believe Anthogy/Adastra has this issue. My best bet is they probably recorded the legato transition and the leading note together, instead of stitching together the legato transition with another sustain. Anyways, I only thought this was an issue with the woodwinds. To have this as a limitation in strings is quite weird.

Yes, this is indeed an annoying feature of a lot of 8Dio and Soundpaint legatos. All Claire series and Intimate series instruments have this same behaviour. So it is expected behaviour, but is implies it imposes a limit on what you can write using the “regular” note overlap approach.