-Easier to use Graphic Interface
Buttons, knobs and menus are easier to read and laid out more logically
-All buttons are now automatable
Every feature can now be automated. This even includes all buttons. Therefore, we have eliminated the Automation page since everything can now be done on the front end of the GUI.
-SmartLegato2® now included
SmartLegato2 is an intuitive programming feature that enhances playability.
TVEC 2 - SmartLegato2 senses your playing style and knows whether you're playing chords or a single legato-style line, and will adjust accordingly. So what is legato technology? Legato technology enhances the realism when you want to create smooth, connected musical passages. When you play and hold a note, then play a second note while still holding the first note, the first note will stop sounding automatically. This ensures a "mono" or "unison" musical line where you don't get irregular transitions between notes. But we always thought it inconvenient not to be able to play chords fluidly. If you try, you get note stealing. You might be able to use chords with some legato technologies, but only in a limited fashion. You would have to play the chord, release that chord, and then play another chord. This results in a rather "staccato", or at best, "detaché" sound - no connection or fluidity between the chords. Trying to play chords in any other way would inevitably result in note stealing. But SmartLegato2 changes the game:
-Play Chords! When you turn SmartLegato2 on, true legato technology is used when playing legato, non-chord passages as described above. And, with SmartLegato2, we can also play fluidly-moving chords perfectly without any note stealing. This is because SmartLegato2 knows when to engage or disengage its legato feature depending on how you are playing.
TVEC 3 - Now, you can set the attack amount. You might want the attacks between legato note transitions to be different depending on what style of phrase you are playing. Additionally, SmartLegato2® will automatically adjust the attack amount depending on the articulation you choose. For example; if you set the SmartLegato2® attacks using the Accent pp articulation, SmartLegato2® will then adjust the attack for all of the other articulations so that your legato note transitions are closely matched. If this automatic adjustment did not take place, the note transitions would sound too slow if you switched to the Adagio or Legato articulations, and too fast for the Accent ff articulation. However, if you should want the note transitions' attacks to change depending on the articulation chosen, (slow for adagio and legato, and faster for Accent pp, Accent mf, and Accent ff) then all you have to do is to set the legato attack amount to 0. And even if you turn SmartLegato2® off, the attacks you set will still apply. This way, you get a true polyphonic legato style.
-DivisiLive® now included
Suppose you have a section of 8 violins. During a musical piece, the score suddenly calls for a divisi during a few bars. This particular "divisi" calls for 2 notes; a 2-note chord. In real life, 4 of the violinists would play the top note, and the remaining 4 violinists would play the bottom note. Before now, this was impossible to accomplish easily in sample libraries. But with TVEC 3's DivisiLive®, you can automatically do this on the fly. DivisiLive® detects whether a chord is played, and divides the available Divisions (in this case, 8 violins) so that each note in a chord is played by only 4 violinists. This way, the passage sounds more realistically performed by a real string section.
DivisiLive® always divides down to the next smallest division. So, for example, if you have selected the Whole divisions and you have engaged DivisiLive®, then TVEC 3 will play the Half Division during chords. Similarly,if you have selected the Half divisions and you have engaged DivisiLive®, then TVEC 3 will play the Quarter Division during chords.
If, for some reason, you have DivisiLive® turned on and have chosen the Solo Division, you will get silence. This is because TVEC 3 cannot divide 1 player. During solo passages, you must turn DivisiLive® off.
-VibratoLive® now included
TVEC 2 - Normally, you can control the vibrato of each note conventionally (via the Modwheel, velocity or both). But with VibratoLive®, you can split each note so that you can control the vibrato amount for the start portion and sustained portion independently. Additionally, you can even control the fade time between the two portions!. VibratoLive® works best with Half and Quarter Divisions, and is not well-suited for solos.
While simply using the modwheel for controlling vibrato is effective, there is an inherent problem. Let's say that you want to have each note of a legato passage start with a small amount of vibrato or no vibrato at all, and then "swell" into a lush, full vibrato as the note is sustained. The problem is that every time you play a new note, you have to lower the modwheel, thereby affecting the currently sustaining note. That means that the sustaining note must lose the vibrato before the next note is played unless you release the note first and then lower the modwheel. But then, of course, you're not playing a legato passage anymore.
Using VibratoLive® eliminates this problem. By multiplexing various needed vibrato groups, and then controlling them separately, the vibrato amount of sustaining notes is never affected by the vibrato amount of a following note....unless you want it to be. And further, since the vibrato amounts can be controlled by knobs, you can automate this.
TVEC 3 - Now, you can turn on or turn off modwheel vibrato when using VibratoLive®. There may be times when you want to use modwheel vibrato IN ADDITION to the settings you choose in VibratoLive®.
-Human Pitch Control now can be turned on or off, or engaged via velocity. (Full version of Concert Strings 2 Only)
Samples recorded with "hpc" (human pitch correction) sound very "real" especially during medium and fast phrases. This is due to the fact that when strings players play, sometimes, they are likely to be slightly out of tune at the beginning of each note. However, this is a desired effect. Without it, the result can sound rather sterile and "flat" and even "synthy". With this new HPC control, you can turn on or off the hpc feature, or use it variably above certain velocity points.
-Improved SmartLegato®
Suppose you choose an aggressive articulation such as Accent ff. Until now, when you have selected SmartLegato, that attacks, even during legato-style playing, would still be rather aggressive. Now, SmartLegato will compensate and make very smooth transitions between notes no matter what articulation you choose. This way, you get the best possible flexibility and musical phrasing!
-Separate velocity and modwheel settings for short note articulation.
We have received numerous requests to create separate velocity and modwheel settings for the short articulations. So now, this is also included.
-ShortNotes FX
Create "disco" style or "retro" style stabs or scoops. Choose Short Notes, and then choose any the 6 accents and then apply this effect.
-New release trigger duplets and triplets.
You can create amazingly realistic duplets and triplets. When engaged, this feature will automatically play an upbow when you release the note. (An upbow and downbow when you select Triplet.) It may take some practice, but once you get the feel of it, the results are very impressive.
-Added modwheel vibrato curves that you can customize. (Full version of Concert Strings 2 Only)
You can customize the behavior of the modwheel when using it to control vibrato amounts. Select from 3 provided curves, linear, nonlinear, and hyperlinear. Additionally, you can draw your own curves!
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New purge feature that allows you to purge the samples of selected
You can create your own stripped-down instruments very easily with this feature. It is why our TVEC 3 upgrades only contain the large "Quad" instruments. Therefore, you can create, for example, an instrument that only contains the Whole divisions. Or an instrument that only contains short notes, or only tremolo, or only pizzicato, etc and on and on.
-Body-Modeling for solos.
High quality impulse responses were recorded of the instrument's body. When used in the solos, this can create a very musical and rich sound.
-Mutes.
A sordino effect is now included.
-No external tutorial needed since every feature is described when you move the mouse over the feature.
All of the features of TVEC 3 are easy to understand because when you hover the mouse over it, a brief explanation is shown in Kontakt's info pane.
