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Expression maps or 2 tracks pr. instrument or both? - an experiment

stigc56

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Hi
I just watched Guy Michelmore from Thinkspace setting up a track template in Cubase. He is using a method of separating the long/short to give them a individual track delay. All fine, so I wondered if it could be a smart solution to combine my old template, with 1 track pr. instrument and his way of doing it?
Lets say two piccolo tracks (VSL Synchron WW) one with long and one with short articulations. Basically I can load the same instrument in the two tracks because the synchron player starts out in purged mode.

Then loading the huge expression maps created by VSL for the piccolo.
Here is the first problem, that this map defaults to a long. So how do I make the track with the short, play staccato by default? I could of course create TWO maps, one for the longs and for the shorts, but this gives a huge set-up in the expression map editor, so I wonder if there is a smart solution?
 
The articulation will default to the first (top) articulation in the expression map. So if you want your shorts track to default to the short articulation, just adjust the expression map so the short articulation is on top.

In big menu-like expression maps with long/short tracks, I'll usually resave a "Longs" expression map with just the long articulations, and a "Shorts" with just the shorts. Helps keep things simple and organized. You just start with the big one, remove the articulations you don't want, and save it as something new so it doesn't save over the default map. Not super time consuming at all. This also ensures that any time I load those expression maps, the proper articulation will be the first one loaded.
 
Hi
I followed your advise, It works fine although doubled the number of expression maps. Wonder how people are coping with two instrument tracks pr. instrument? Maybe they always mix-down or?
 
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