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In some cases, these effects are divided into separate files for sounds or phrases of long and
short duration.
Sing
The Flute contains an articulation called Sing RR. This is the sound of the flautist vocalizing
into the flute while also blowing across the mouthpiece. This creates a sound which is a mix-
ture of the human voice and the usual flute timbre.
Legato
For most woodwind instruments, a legato sound is created with a slur that joins the two
consecutive notes without a fresh attack at the start of the later note. This slur occurs
only when there is no significant gap between the end of the earlier note and the start of
the later note. In addition, the two notes have to be at most an octave apart. Moving from
D3 to D4 generates a legato slur; moving from D3 to D#4 does not.
PLEASE NOTE! By default, all legato instruments in this library are monophonic. By allow-
ing only one note to play at a time, PLAY makes sure that there is no ambiguity about
what two notes should have a legato transition between them. It is possible to turn off the
monophonic behavior with MIDI Control Code 22. When in the top half of its range, 64–
127, the controller preserves the default behavior. But whenever CC 22 is in the range
0–63, polyphonic behavior is turned on. You do need to listen to the output carefully
to see whether there are unwanted legato slurs between notes in different polyphonic
voices. If so, one remedy is to move those two voices to separate MIDI tracks.
Legato Slur
The basic slur legato patch creates a slur between notes as long as there is no delay between
the end of the first note and the start of the following note. Plus, the interval between the two
notes has to be no more than an octave.
Because these patches always start playing 3 sustain samples (in addition to cross-fade be-
tween them based on the Mod Wheel) and also use separate samples to provide the slurs, be
aware that the patches use more computer resources than most of the simpler instruments.
Legato Slur Repetitions
This patch is similar to the basic Legato Slur except that it also uses separate samples to
handle repeated notes. For example, if in a phrase 3 notes of the same pitch are played con-
secutively without space between the notes, the second and third occurrences use a retongued
version of the note to achieve the correct sound.
Slur Runs
These patches provide a slur legato sound with a lot of portamento that works well in very fast
runs. Each note can be held indefinitely, so if you want to, for example, run up to a last note
and hold it, you can use this patch for both the run and the held note.
The characteristic sound occurs only when the interval between consecutive notes is either a
minor second or a major second. Larger intervals do not create the strong slur.
Dynamics for this instrument are controlled with the Mod Wheel, not Velocity. And, as with the
basic Legato Slur patch, this one uses a lot of resources because each note uses 3 voices for