
So excluding slurs from playback is not necessary with this player. The Vienna Instruments PRO player offers a polyphonic legato mode. To do so, select the slur and go to the Inspector/Playback window ( Properties/Playback in Sibelius 6).

If you want to notate more voices in one staff with a slur, you can exclude the slur from playback and thus avoid switching to legato. So if you write a slur (which triggers the legato patch), you are limited to one voice. Our Performance Interval patches (legato, portamento, performance marcato, performance trills) are monophonic due to the necessity of interval recognition.

Velocity X-Fade gets automatically turned on for rolls and turned off again after the rolls. The steps described in this chapter are not necessary with the sound set "VE SY Special Edition". So you don't have to type in MIDI values for hairpins. There is a Sibelius plugin to create these messages (Plug-ins/ Playback/ Cresc./ Dim.Playback/ Use C11) for hairpins. If you also want to use Velocity X-fades for drum and percussion rolls (included in the Special Edition presets 12S Drums, 13S Cymbals+Gongs and 14S Percussion), you have to turn Velocity X-Fade on and add CC11 MIDI commands (written as Technique Text ) to your Sibelius instrument like this: Then the automatic switches will not apply. If you want Velocity XF to be turned on or off in general, assign a different (free) Controller to "Vel.XF On" on the Synchron Player CONTROL page. In most cases this should make the performance better. Velocity XF gets turned on and off automatically depending on the articulation with the sound sets "VE SY Special Editions" and "VE SY Winds". SYNCHRON-ized Special Edition users (except volumes 5 and 6) and SYNCHRON-ized Woodwinds: Lots of the percussion sounds don't blend well when crossfaded. Velocity X-Fade will not work for percussive instruments, because CC11 is not implemented for these instruments in the sound set. So it may be useful to turn Velocity X-Fade on and off from within your score like this: In some cases two dynamic layers may be audible for only one voice in the score.For big arrangements the hard drive may not be quick enough and some voices can get cut off. More voices get streamed simultaneously.

The VI presets for the aforementioned instruments have Velocity X-Fade already activated with CC11 assigned by default.Īlthough Velocity X-Fade is recommended for Woodwinds, Brass, Strings and the Vienna Choir in Sibelius, it also has two drawbacks. This way it's possible to make dynamic transitions within notes. With Velocity X-Fade turned on, all dynamic layers get streamed from the hard disk simultaneously. To Synchron Player it sends velocity and CC2 commands. General optimization tips Velocity X-Fadeįor Woodwinds, Brass, Strings and the Vienna Choir Sibelius sends velocity and CC11 (MIDI Control Change 11) commands for the dynamics to the Vienna Instruments player.
