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Originally Posted by Tunesmith
Hi Frank,
It's been MANY years since I played around with MIDI, so my thoughts might be totally obsolete for the current state of MIDI equipment and software!
Maybe first, you could explain what your equipment and software are?
Musescore: Is this the digital music authoring software, for writing traditional music scores?
Logic Pro: Is this the digital recording software, consisting of multiple tracks that contain MIDI data, recorded sound files, samples, etc.? You would use this to mix and edit all the tracks into the desired format and sound?
SWAM Cello v3.0 voice: Sorry, totally unfamiliar with this, but I'm guessing it's a MIDI sound module?
You mentioned that you could set up the SWAM to provide vibrato, but when starting the track from the beginning, the vibrato would disappear, right? If this is the case, I'm thinking that there needs to be a MIDI command that is 'programmed' into a track in Logic Pro that will tell the SWAM to add vibrato to the voice. I may be blowing smoke here, since my MIDI days were long ago. But if I'm even close to understanding your situation, let me know and maybe we can puzzle this one out together. Of course, as someone previously suggested, you could get onto a User Group forum for Logic Pro and pick their brains. That might be a quicker solution than waiting for me to sweep out the cobwebs...
Good Luck either way!
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That’s, yes, Musescore is a program that lets you author scores. It has a built in synth so you can listen as you write your score. It is as good or better than many professional programs, but is free.
Logic Pro is Apple DAW (digital audio workstation). It also lets you author score, but much more. It is expensive and very complex, I normally use Musescore to create the score, an Logic Pro to play the midi, since Logic Pro has more options and the synth sounds so much better.
Swam is a line of digital software instruments that work in most DAWs, you can assign a “audio unit” as they are called, to any track, then the track is played using that instrument instead of the default built in instrument.
I think in the case of the AUs the settings are handled locally to the AU and don’t need to be triggered by the MIDI engine. The are a lot of things Swam is doing on its own, if you look at the video and listen, you can see in the swam control panel there is a visual indication of the vibrato on the cellos string. You will notice the vibrato starts only if a note is sustained. So Swam is deciding if vibrato is to be added dynamically. The setting, shown on that control panel, sets that magnitude of the vibrato, but the AU decides when to apply it.
Does that help? I think you are right, I think that Logic Pro is sending a CC (MIDI message) to the instrument, Swam, telling it to reset, and never telling it to turn the vibrato back on. I would like to either tell it to not reset it, or to figure out how to tell it to turn it back on at the appropriate setting.