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VibratoLive®

 

Control the vibrato of each note conventionally (via the Modwheel, velocity or both) or split each note so that you can control the start portion and sustained portion independently. Additionally, you can even control the fade time between!. VibratoLive® works best with Whole, Half and Quarter Divisions, and is not designed for solos.

While simply using the modwheel for controlling vibrato is effective, there is an inherent problem. Let's say that you want to have each note of a legato passage start with a small amount of vibrato or no vibrato at all, and then "swell" into a lush, full vibrato as the note is sustained. The problem is that every time you play a new note, you have to lower the modwheel, thereby affecting the currently sustaining note. That means that the sustaining note must lose the vibrato before the next note is played unless you release the note first and then lower the modwheel. But then, of course, you're not playing a legato passage anymore.

Using VibratoLive® eliminates this problem. By multiplexing various needed vibrato groups, and then controlling them separately, the vibrato amount of sustaining notes is never affected by the vibrato amount of a following note....unless you want it to be. And further, since the vibrato amounts can be controlled by knobs, you can automate this.

Using VibratoLive®
First, choose VibratoLive® from the Vibrato Chooser.

The Vibrato Chooser


Then click the VibratoLive® tab at the bottom right of the GUI. This takes you to the VibratoLive® page.

The VibratoLive® Page

First, we want to select how to control the various parameters.
Select how you want to control the vibrato of the beginning of each note with the StartVib Chooser. In this example it is set to "Knob StartVib". Your options are Modwheel, velocity or knob values.
Select how you want to control the vibrato of the sustained portion of each note with the SusVib Chooser. In this example it is set to "Knob SusVib". Your options are Modwheel, velocity or knob values.
Select how you want to alter the amount of time between start vibrato and sustained vibrato with the FadeTime Chooser. In this example, it is set to "Knob FadeTime.
Now we want to control the amount of vibrato and the amount of fade time.
For the StartVib and SusVib knobs, higher values give you more vibrato, and lower values give you less.
For the fadeTime knob, higher values increase the time it takes for the vibrato amount set by the SusVib to kick in.

You will also notice a dropdown menu with various composers' names. These are just a few vibrato presets from which to choose. The default is "Brahms".

Please note that using VibratoLive® requires more CPU power than conventional modwheel or velocity vibrato.