User Manual

54 A User’s Guide to Garritan World Instruments
4. Keyswitching
(Changing Articulations and Techniques in Real Time)
Changing Articulations in Real Time
Keyswitching is a feature that allows you to change articulations quickly while playing. With the
simple touch of a key located on the keyboard below the playable range of an instrument, you can
move between dierent playing styles without having to load multiple patches. In World Instru-
ments, keyswitching is used for a variety of techniques, such as switching between single hits, various
rolls, triplets and ams (for percussion); bends, chis and nuances in the winds; and single plucks,
glisses and tremolo (for strings). ese keyswitch instruments are denoted by KS next to their name.
All patches initially load using the rst keyswitch as the default, and any keyswitch remains active
until another keyswitch message is received.
Here is an example of a typical Keyswitch layout for a percussion KS instrument:
In the ARIA player, the keyswitches are displayed below the instrument’s range using a dark pink
color. e selected keyswitch is displayed in yellow and the represented patch is identied in the
window to the left of the keyswitches.
Although it may be tempting to use your mouse to trigger one of the displayed Keyswitches in the
ARIA player, it is seldom recommended. e player’s graphic representations of keys, wheels, and
knobs are primarily there for convenient testing. Be advised that if you use the mouse to trigger a