Man, HUGE thanks for this. I was really struggling trying to understand how groups worked in expression maps and how you'd set that up. This video got me to see the light. I always turn to your channel first when needing very well explained and comprehensive information. Thank you so much. You do not disappoint, sir!
Great Stuff! I haven't thought about vibrato myself, so I will add that. One thing to consider is using program change instead of keyswitches. You must obviously have a controller that can do this (some keyboards can). But using a tablet/ipad with OSC (free) or similar (touchDAW is cheap for example) works well. The reason I bring this up is because you won't be locked to an articulation by default, as is the case with attributute. Meaning, cubase will always select the first articulation in the list when you play on your keyboard. This can be annoying when you want to play shorts and you get legato, for example. Program change doesn't do this. I otherwise do a hybrid. Meaning, I have articulation maps, but ALSO the articulations divided to midi channels with ONE instrument track. All the midi tracks control ONE instrument track. This way, I get ONE output in terms of channel and mics, but I can still either jump with switches, OR midi channels. This way I can set up latency to be different on each articulation. Shorts usually trigger much faster than legato for example. Lastly, save your instruments as Track presets, so that you can recall the exact settings in ANY project, and not just a template
Alex, this has been a very helpful video. I just got a couple new VSL libraries and the expression maps are not programmed correctly and I have to reprogram them. Your video has helped me understand how expression maps can work in the advanced needs that I have so I can get the most out of my incredible libraries without having to start from scratch. Thank you, sir.
One thing I do to speed up the expression map process is having a default file saved with about twenty or so empty articulations with their key switches already mapped. By and large all that remains for that first stage is naming. It's a small thing, but it makes it a little less tedious.
Using Cinematic Studio Series instruments, the user interface has 2 choices either by using the basic keyswitches or using the CC58 which is very similar to this expression map=)
I think the CC58 method is used in this video ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-kbt6Uyul0xE.html which explains articulation mapping in Logic.
