Legato playing

In zeta I think you only set polyphony to 1 and automatically get legato - in the sense that envelopes are not retriggered when a new note is played before the current note is released.

If you also want portamento (sliding the pitch from one note to the next), you must activate it in the "Global Oscillator" section (it's the GL oscillator page). There's the Portamento mode and time parameters plus some other stuff I haven't played with.


I haven't played enough with Dimension to know where to activate legato and portamento but I'm sure it's somewhere there.

To set legato playback in z3ta+, just set the polyphony to 1. Portamento effect is controlled by the PORTA MODE and PORTA TIME, in the oscillators global page.

Dimension/Dimension Pro will set legato playback when polyphony is set to 0 (setting polyphony to 1 results in fingered mono mode). They don't feature Portamento.



-René

They don't feature Portamento

Shame,

Can we have that as FR for the next release then....


Andy

Saxes are one of those 'Solo' patches I mentioned in my previous post. Also, the Garritan Pocket Orchestra solo woodwinds, brass and strings feature that legato mode, defined in the sfz.

I think my previous post was not precise, or incomplete: Dimension/Dimension Pro do not feature portamento in the interface, as z3ta+ does, so it can't be applied to any patch 'on-the-fly'. With samples, this generally results in a 'trivial' portamento effect, which hurts more than helps realism.

However, it allows portamento defined at sfz level, and the speed can be assigned to any MIDI control (or panel knob). This type of legato/portamento can be achieved on samples with that effect recorded (ala VSL), or as in typical synthesizers by gliding pitch.



-René