Sound of the Week - Cello - EWI Reason Sounds

Sound of the Week - Cello

6/30/2010

This is a version of 'Plated Cello' from the Reason Factory Sound Bank. I added breath control to the NN-XT cello patch. I think it came out pretty good. I originally thought I would create my own combinator, but I liked the setup of the stock patch from the Factory Sound Bank. It has controls for reverb, chorus and a bass boost. I'd use it on a gig.

I've included an mp3 demo of this patch. Hope you like it!

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4 Comments

Bret link

6/30/2010 01:04:29 pm

Nice! After reading some previous posts, I was thinking of requesting audio samples, so those of us without Reason could get in on the fun.

Will this sound do smooth slurs, or does each note get rearticulated? I couldn't tell for sure from the MP3.

EWIChris link

7/1/2010 02:20:17 am

Technically, each note is rearticulated, but with a soft attack on the wind controller, you don't hear the attack portion of the sample.

You can put the NN-XT in legato mode, where the sample start points are not retriggered, but the legato notes do not switch to the next sample, they just pitch shift the existing sample, which is ok for synthetic sounds, not so good for multi-sampled acoustic instruments.

I put a question up on the Propellerheads forum to see if you can switch to a different sample on slurred notes only. I've seen sample switching done by assigning a key on a keyboard to activate the alternate sample, but as you can imagine, this techinque is impractical on the ewi.

At any rate, I already have some ideas on how to improve the 'attack' responsiveness of this sound, so maybe I'll repost an updated version...

~Chris

DanPerezSax

7/9/2010 02:23:09 pm

Maybe there's a way to start the legato notes with a softer attack starting a little bit further into the waveform? I haven't used Reason since 2.5, so I don't remember NN-XT almost at all. Just found this site after your post on saxontheweb, btw. Great stuff here! I'm creating and tweaking patches on Massive, FM8 and Omnisphere over the next few weeks to get a good live rig going for the EWI, too!

EWIChris link

7/11/2010 11:16:29 am

Awesome about the work you are doing with those soft synths! It's great fun!

Yes, there is a way to start the legato notes with a softer attack further into the wave form. You can set Sample Start to be controlled by Velocity, so you could skip over the attack when you start a note softly. This would work for any soft note, but not for a run of forte notes because you would be still be sending a high velocity for each note.

~Chris

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