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The default vibrato speed can be adjusted via MIDI CC67 — you can also temporarily increase the speed of the vibrato by using aftertouch, but I found this rendered the effect somewhat less lifelike. Stradivari 's third ace in the pack is its portamento glide effect. Unimpeded by frets, violinists often slide between notes, sometimes using small, subliminal pitch glides, but occasionally introducing a big glissando for obvious dramatic effect. Drawing on the same convolution technology devised for its vibrato which, I'm told, introduces formant shifting on pitch changes and some more clever MIDI scripting, the violin's portamento slides sound utterly convincing for both subtle and unsubtle types of delivery.

However, making them obey your musical will is another matter, as I'll try to explain! Portamento pitch glides are automatically created between overlapping notes when Stradivari is in mono legato mode.

The longest, most pronounced glissandos are created when a sustained note overlaps with a second quiet note — if the second note is played louder, a quicker portamento occurs, to the point where a ff overlapping note produces no portamento at all.

This is somewhat counter-intuitive — the tendency is to try to create a big glissando by playing a loud note, rather than a quiet one — but after a little practise I began to get the hang of it. One downside of the built-in portamento scripting described above is that if you play very fast passages quietly in monophonic mode, there's a danger of unwanted big glides occurring if any notes should accidentally overlap. Overlaps can of course be cleaned up in a sequencer, but for live playing in mono mode I found the safest way to avoid accidental portamentos in very fast passages was to whack my keyboard's velocity scaling up to maximum and play loudly!

Alternatively, you can simply play the fast passage in polyphonic mode, which has no built-in portamento effect. Using these highly expressive techniques, one can play legato melodies with or without portamento, using the expression pedal to vary the dynamics and the mod wheel to control vibrato. It is of course possible to sequence the notes first and add the expression data later, but that would be far less fun and take 10 times as long!

Never one to let the grass grow under his feet, Gary Garritan is about to release a solo Gofriller Cello to accompany Stradivari Violin. A sneak preview revealed that the cello has a superbly mobile, lively sound and matches Stradivari 's levels of expressive realism. Work is also under way on a solo viola and double bass, as well as a second violin this one made by Guarneri.

Garritan has spoken about applying the same approach to other orchestral instruments — if the idea goes ahead and pricing levels remain the same, it would enable users to gradually build up collections of good-quality, expressive solo instruments one instrument at a time without breaking the bank.

Stradivari supplies the straight, four-dynamic sustained notes and two types of bow attack described earlier in straight and con sordino muted versions, along with two-dynamic pizzicato samples and a set of natural in other words non-chromatic harmonics.

The effect of the mute is quite subtle; it reduces brightness and creates a slightly more mellow sound overall, most noticeably in the violin's lower register. Being recorded in mono, the pizzicatos lack the sumptuous stereo room acoustic one hears in some string libraries, but they're perfectly adequate for plucked note passages. It's a shame that no artificial harmonics or col legno sustains were included — the natural open-string harmonics are mapped only to their real-life pitches, leaving wide chromatic gaps across the keyboard.

The instrument has a few other tricks up its sleeve: its 'trills' mode lets you play trills as a violinist would, in other words holding down a note while rhythmically playing a repeated trill note. The main note is automatically muted every time the trill note sounds, and unlike on a real violin the trill can be played between any two notes you like.

Once again, the musical effect is incredibly lifelike. This keyboard mode has interesting extra applications — by holding down a note and playing a series of fast staccato eighth notes above and below it, you can introduce an Irish or Eastern European folk violin flavour to melodies, and it's also useful for certain legato effects.

Unfortunately, the tremolo mode is less effective: it outputs a kind of light double-bowing a bit like a single repeat on a delay line to simulate one fast back-and-forth motion of the bow, after which it's up to you to play repeated notes to prolong the tremolo effect. I found it difficult to synchronise the timing of my repeated notes to the fixed speed of the built-in bow repeat — you can overcome this difficulty to some extent by editing a sequence of repeated notes to the right length and timing, but even then the tremolo effect doesn't sound very convincing.

The long note samples play for eight to 10 seconds and are unlooped, but it's possible to artificially extend their duration by using a virtual bow-change — you can do this in mono legato mode by playing a long note, pressing the sustain pedal, then playing the note again.

This produces a smooth legato re-bowing, preceded by a very slight downwards pitch modulation designed to mimic the behaviour of the real instrument.

I wasn't aware that re-bowing a string had any effect on its pitch, but must say that the pitch modulation is so slight that I wouldn't have noticed it had the manual not drawn it to my attention. Although smooth and fairly unobtrusive, the re-bowing will always be noticeable in a solo passage — however, if Stradivari is played in an ensemble and you pick the right moment to replay the note, it might just pass unnoticed.

Pitch bend controlled by the pitch wheel, naturally has been set to the obligatory two semitones — I don't know whether it's possible to adjust this setting in the Kontakt Instrument version of Stradivari , as it wasn't available for review at the time of writing.

On the subject of bends, it struck me that it would be great if one could bend just the lower of two held notes — this would facilitate all manner of country and folk licks and even Jan Hammer-style guitar pitch-bend simulations, which would help extend the violin's stylistic range beyond the strictly classical. Having said that, the range of demos on Garritan's web site prove that Stradivari is already pretty stylistically versatile!

As you would rightly expect from a priceless, year-old instrument, the Strad violin played by Pauline Kim has a rich, vibrant mature tone with plenty of depth and body. The bowing is smooth, assured, and free of inconsistencies right across the G2 to E6 range, resulting in a musically satisfying set of samples.

When allied to Stradivari 's technical innovations and advanced programming techniques, the raw sounds are transformed into a sophisticated and intelligent instrument which somehow manages to be more than the sum of its parts.

Forget all the technical stuff — the most important fact about the Stradivari violin is that it's enormous fun to play, a salutary reminder of why we all got started in the music business in the first place! As ever, a little bit of keyboard technique helps, but though it can make you sound like a virtuoso, you don't have to study for years to play it.

With a little practise, your fiddling will soon rival that of the Enron directors, and unlike Nicolo Paganini the great 19th-century violinist whose phenomenal technique gave rise to rumours of diabolical assistance , you won't have to sell your soul to the devil to cover the cost of this expressive instrument.

Stradivari Solo Violin is unique in offering a truly solo solo violin — most libraries provide the instrument in a package comprising solo violin, viola, cello, and double bass.

The Advanced Orchestra set created by Peter Siedlaczek in had a solo strings volume which is no longer separately available, but Dan Dean's Solo Strings is going strong in Gigastudio format. The latter is available as a Horizon-series sound library and in expanded form as a Vienna Instrument.

If you're working with a modest budget and need a solo violin to add to an orchestral arrangement or to play on its own, Stradivari is the perfect solution.

Although not a good bet for one-fingered programmers, it's a keyboard player's dream — it feels and sounds like a real instrument, and its expressive powers are second to none.

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