reztes wrote:But it is not the articulation that I want... "Fingered tremolo" is more like a trill, but it plays the two notes specified. If you have a "fingered tremolo" between c3 and e3 it sounds like a trill between these notes. I supose I can use 32th notes, but it is a hard and long way for writing such a simple thing...
I tried with another instruments and it only plays the second intervals. Can it be an unknown issue?
Since you used Marimba as an example, I think that you probably want the articulation which makes the most sense when the intervals are greater rather than smaller, as is the case when someone is playing Marimba, Zylophone, or Vibraphone with a pair of mallets in each hand, and if this is what you need, then I think that doing it the hard way is the only guaranteed way to do it, where the 'hard way" refers to specifying each note . . .
Some of the more advanced VSTi virtual instruments have engines that support a bit of scripting, so I do not exclude the possibility of doing what you want to do via scripting, but both of these two strategies will require some work, and the advantage of doing it the "hard way" is that once you have the rhythm pattern for the notes, then it mostly is a "copy and paste" type of activity . . .
The key bit of information is that the NOTION bundled instruments and the NOTION add-on instrument libraries have extra capabilities which are included specifically for use with NOTION, and while these types of capabilities certainly can be present in third-party VSTi virtual instruments and their associated sampled sounds libraries, using the third-party VSTi virtual instrument "extra capabilities" requires additional work, some of which can be very complex . . .
As an example, you might be interested in MachFive 3 (MOTU), which has its own scripting language based on the Lua programming language and provides the functionality for designing and programming your own special effects, where arpeggios are an example, with the idea being that you supply a small set of notes and then an "arpeggiator" takes those notes and creates elaborate arpeggios . . .
Depending on what you need to do with Marimbas, you might be able to design and program a special effect that takes as input a sequence of single mallet notes but then transforms them into double-mallet harmonies and counterpoint, and i think that something like this is well within the capabilities of MachFive 3, where another possibility is based on the "Chorder" effect, which creates up to 6-note chords based on being input one note . . .
MachFive 3 (MOTU)Lua Programming Language[
NOTE: This is the MachFIve 3 VSTi engine enhancing single notes played on a Marimba, where the enhancing is done by synthesizing and repeating notes in a pattern. The Marimba notes a sampled, and MachFive 3 has them, hence is able to use them in its Arpeggiator to create a more elaborate mallet playing pattern. And the NOTION 4 notes are shown in the screen capture of the MF3 Marimba staff. And since the Arpeggiator is programmable, you can specify intervals, repeats, and so forth, as well as time between notes and other stuff . . . ]
MachFive 3 Marimba with Arpeggiator in NOTION 4 -- WAV (2.3MB, 1411-kbps, approximately 13 seconds)I have not done much with the Arpeggiator, but I did a quick overview of the various presents, and there are perhaps 40 presets ranging from simple to complex, but these are just favorites or whatever, and the Arpeggiator itself does a
lot of other stuff . . .
This is the "Spiral Tap" preset for the MachFive 3 Arpeggiator (
see below), and I enhanced it by using the "Tonal Harmonizer" event processor in MachFive 3, where the enhancers basically play a nice melodic rhythm pattern for a song based on a set of whole notes for Marimba supplied via music notation in NOTION 4, and this provides a better perspective on what you can do with MachFIve 3 when it is controlled and managed via music notation in NOTION 4 . . .
MachFive 3 Arpeggiator ~ Spiral Tap PresetThese are the notes that are provided in music notation in NOTION 4 , and each one is a whole note, with the key being C and the time signature being 4/4, where the tempo is 120 beats per minute:
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{C4, A3, D4, G4, A4, E4, D5, B4, D4, E4, F4, G4, C4}
And this is the music that the notes played on the MachFIve 3 Marimba create when run through the Arpeggiator set to its "Spiral Tap" preset with the MachFive 3 Script Processor running the basic "Tonal Harmonizer" effect:
MachFive 3 Marimba, Arpeggiator, Tonal Harmonizer, NOTION 4 -- WAV (5.8MB, 1411-kbps, approximately 33 seconds)For reference, the Arpeggiator and Tonal Harmonizer are what I generally call "music boxes", and Reason 6.5 (Propellerhead Software) has a virtual festival of music boxes . . .
Reason 6.5 (Propellerhead Software)[
NOTE: One way to understand Rack Extensions for Reason 6.5 is that some of them are music boxes but another group of them are components used to create, enhance, and modify music boxes . . . ]
Reason 6.5 Rack Extensions (Propellerhead Shop)Once the Reason 6.5 music boxes are initially programmed and configured you can control and play them via music notation in NOTION 4, which is done using NOTION 4 External MIDI staves and is a bit mind-boggling with respect to what you can do once you make sense of how all the music boxes work and so forth . . .
From my perspective, the common denominator or
foundation is NOTION 4, and it is what you use to make all the virtual stuff work via music notation, which is fabulous . . .
Fabulous! 