Marcato F#0, 1 (anything from 1-64 but NOT 0 as in the manual) as I said is the marcato without overlay and the effect varies considerably.
Although I’m a huge fan of the note length condition programming and use it in most other libraries, with CSS simply trying to get the right patch by speed doesn’t work in my view. Only in really fast music is it obviously unsuitable. In the solo strings, I don’t use sustain without legato at all except for chords but the situation might be a little different with a fuller string library, though I suspect it’s still overused. What makes CSS stand out from most others is that the standard legato sustain patch is very flexible and in some music can be used almost exclusively.
While CS2 sounds very natural, there's nothing natural about using it or any other sample library. If your starting point for volume is -10 dB (just an arbitrary value I'm using for example), then you can ride the gain with CC#7 from -10 to +6 dB! That latitude will definitely help you achieve a greater overall sense of dynamics than just riding CC1 by itself. Absolutely! CC#7 will, of course, control the fader on the instrument's channel strip.
Additionally, you can ride CC2 - which controls vibrato - on the arco sound to provide a heightened sense of emotional intensity (which sometimes translates to an increase in dynamics).īut when the overall dynamic range of CC1 going from pp to ff isn't enough, by all means use CC#7 to give you a greater dynamic range. They've done a pretty nice job of transitioning the range of pp through ff timbres with CC1. For the arco, trills, and trem articulations, velocity doesn't influence dynamics so CC1 should be your first choice for controlling dynamics.