Hello! I am trying to improve the musical expression of SWAM Violin.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1p_-rD-zYE

Mixing musical expression and realistic sound is very difficult.
Feedback is welcome!

The setting is the same as last time.*
https://twitter.com/t_aska/status/1051009509521383424

*my Demo 8
https://community.audiomodeling.com/index.php?u=/topic/21/my-swam-violin-demo-8

Mizuki

Sounds perfectly realistic !
Thanks,
-Michael

Even better than the last demo! And the composition is so warm yet melancholic. I hear more Ryuichi Sakamoto and even Hitoshi Sakimoto.

I think the portamento/longer legato are the hardest parts to nail with the SWAM strings, especially the upper registers. What are some of your methods to try and make it more realistic? I tend to try to avoid it altogether. Some libraries like 8dio's strings have unrealistic legato when it's too long so I avoid it in such cases by turning legato speed all the way up.

Michael

Thank you!

Tom

Thank you for your reply!

It's a difficult question.
I think that legato speed and pitch instability and legato noise are important for the realism of portamento and legato in the solo violin. I think that it will become a real sound by raising the pitch at upper registers, sometimes slightly exceeding and returning to the original pitch.
As far as this song is concerned, I aimed at an Asian style (like Erhu), so I used portamento and slides a lot. I will not use it much in classical music.

Mizuki