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"Issue" with 8Dio Intimate Studio Strings legato?

BosquesDeMiMente

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Hi, I hope somebody can help me.
I just got 8Dio Intimate Studio Strings and I run into a weird issue with the Legato patches.

So if I click on a note and hold it (example, D4), the note plays forever (as I was expecting).
However, if I play a note and transition via legato to another note, for example, from G3 to D4, the second note plays for a couple of seconds and then dies without releasing the key.



It is weird that if the legato can play forever with one single note, it stops for the following notes, and limits the usability of the library. Is this supposed to be a "feature" or it is maybe a bug? Perhaps someone can shed some light on this?

Thanks a lot in advance 🙏
 
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
 
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
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?
 
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?
Even the famous composers got that wrong from time to time.
 
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.
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.
 
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.
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.
 
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