User Guide

yellow tools INDEPENDENCE 1.0
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If you want to simulate the Legato playing technique even more precisely and specifically you really
need something much more powerful, right?
Welcome to Independence‘s Advanced Legato Mode!
NOTE: Next to the Alternates the Content Browser of the Performance Page also shows the
Legato Content down left. You can always use this browser for quick switching between
the different available Legato modes. To bypass the currently selected Legato (whether
you select it in the pull-down menu or in the Content Browser) use the „bypass“ button
top right.
The Advanced Legato Mode is a very innovative technology so at the moment not all instruments
will use this powerful feature. Anyway, all upcoming yellow tools instruments and sampling
libraries will be specially developed for this feature and benefit from it accordingly.
Legato Playing Techniques
Depending on the composition, of course, a live musician (e.g. guitar player) always uses the Legato
playing technique. This is plainest hearable in slow compositions, like ballads. A guitar player only
plays legato with his left hand. If he plays two or more legato notes successively you can hear that
as these notes do not have the normal „attack“ but are a bit smoother at the beginning.
This playing technique is very important and also very complex and requires much more samples
than a simple synth-legato.
If you have the possibility to listen to a live legato played instrument you will recognize very clearly
that there is a little break with a specific noise before each new note. The reason is that the musician
needs time to move his hand to the wanted finger position.
To simulate and reproduce all this in a sampling library is the demand of Independence‘s Advanced
Legato Mode!
For a better understanding of the structure and how to setup the Legato Mode here an example:
Please load the Layer patch „Nylon Acoustic Guitar Legato“ from the Independence Core Library
and switch to the „Performance Page“. You will see that this Layer contains 1 Alternate with 4
different Basic Steps and two different Legato. In this Layer patch each playing style has its own
Legato: Legato F (Legato forte) and Legato MF (Legato mezzo-forte). Now select „Legato F“ (from
the „select“ pull-down menu or the Content Browser) and play the instrument a little stronger on
your keyboard... of course with a few legato notes. You will realize that as soon as you play notes
with legato the basic sound of the guitar alters a little. This is the unique simulation of a real legato!
The Advanced Legato Mode contains three main components:
- Legato Start (can be a Layer, Alternate or Section)
- Legato Option
- Legato Target