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[gregjazz]

I might need to take another look to see if it’s improved, but I’ve never been a huge fan of the real-time time stretching processes. Beyond the artifacts they introduce, time stretching uses more CPU and the complete samples have to be loaded into memory. That causes the instrument to potentially use a lot more RAM and take longer to load.

Maybe something like the roll mode our Paradise Marimba library has would work for emulated tremolos. That way you could hold down a note/notes and use a MIDI CC to control the overall dynamic (and maybe another CC for speed) of the tremolo, while the engine takes care of the natural slight variation in dynamic/timing. Additionally, if there were enough round-robins for variation, and possibly special transition samples between each note, I wonder if that would replace the need for sampled tremolo.

As of right now, whenever I need control over the speed/dynamic of the tremolo, I use the downstroke/upstroke repeat keys that are mapped right below the main playing range.

This video demonstrates the sampled tremolo options that our mandolin libraries include, and halfway in shows the manual approach to playing tremolo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p6noh1RCIUY

Greg Schlaepfer
Orange Tree Samples
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