I can’t get over how beautiful and natural it sounds. But then Kontakt’s development has lead us to this point, a good time to shout out to the entire music community, you all made this possible. ✌️
Thank you Native Instruments, for the dedication and sheer love all of you have for music, and going out of your way to make it accessible for everyone👌🏼
I have to admit there's nothing like the real thing because it has millions of analog - in between - articulations, but it will sound convincing in any recording except maybe a concerto for solo violin by a real Strad. I can appreciate the amount of work that went into this (not to mention insurance to be allowed to actually touch it) and I think it's well worth the price. Definitely going to get a copy, because this is probably the closest I can ever get to playing one without scaring off rodents and musquitos. Great work NI, love you guys! But it would be cool to add 'unconventional' sounds too, like you did on the Giant 'cinematic' preset (like noise).
The best solo violin library I have ever bought , I hope you'll make " solo cello, bass, in addition to the other sections solos brass, woodwind etc. 👏👏👏
There are no words, to describe this sound. If something is so special and at the same time so natural, it starts feeling for me magical. I got this Violin today, buying an update to Komplete Ultimate 13. I am very thankfull for you work, to make ma able, transporting this magic into music for the humanity. I feel it already in my heart, after i heard the first sounds.
Listened and observed various libraries. This is the best sounding and practical to use solo violin vst IMO. Buying immediately. My only concern is only about legato sliding. It sounds a bit mechanical. However, many libraries have the same issue. By the way, I do not like to fully depend on these plugins or such techs to protect recording musicians and avoid a jobless future for all. Therefore, this is more than enough for me to produce a realistic demo for clients who does not really understand. Thanks….
Absolutely insane. Very first time that I can say I would probably not be able to tell the difference. If the Partita #2 excerpt at the end is genuine, I'm just blown away.
Everything is fine about this, except for the Legato. I cannot explain how much I love and enjoy using NI products, but I might have to skip on this just for the legato alone.
The sautillé and short articulations sound fantastic. But there's something really strange going on with the sustains. After a second or so, there's a very odd almost LFO-like modulation that comes in, and it makes it sound very fake.
I agree. It's because it's not a real recorded vibrato. They did it as post-processing. Supposedly they emulated the shape of a real vibrato (?) as opposed to just a sine wave. But it sounds off still
Can we expect improvements soon for use of this great instrument within a DAW or notation-program like Dorico. I need to be able to define my own key-switches for all available articulations including additional functions like "Sul Ponte", "Con Sordino", "Bowed", "Rebowed", etc. The limit of 8 buttons is impractical. I own Joshua Bell's Stradivarius as well and that one is more useable. I really love the inspiring sound of this Stradivari (Vesuvius) but you have to give us more flexibility in the interface! - René Damen - composer.
Just bought Komplete 13 Ultimate, not cheap but it was a steal at the same time. SO. MUCH. STUFF! It's going to take me three days just to download all of this content! Love it, though my hard drive is whimpering.
That sounds very promising! Btw, i find it a little funny that Native Instruments chose Reaper as the DAW for these examples, when they don't fully support some key features of Komplete Kontrol in Reaper.... Come on NI, you can do it! Make it happen!!
You guys make it sound great. Sadly I can't get the vibrato to sound good on long notes. I wanted to love this so much, but there is a strange phasing that happens in my mixes when a long note uses vibrato (which is almost always in my music). It's almost like the violin jumps closer to the mic and back into the hall. I have an easier time manipulating samples that have vibrato recorded into them. I would love to know if anyone has had a similar experience and found a way to get around this.
@@800pieds it's honestly been a while since I've played around with Joshua Bell, but if I remember correctly the legato is still pretty ahead of this library. The runs on Stradivari sounds pretty good though.
Lol nope, OT and Spitfire are still more playable than this. I REALLY don't understand why NI packed a ton of articulations into this (good) but not giving enough keyswitches for all articulations (terrible), while never moved on to how Spitfire handled articulations (as patches). This is gonna be a hard no for me, even if it's Stradivari.
Absolutely love this library! One thing I cannot find any info on anyhere though is what the difference between the expression slider and the dynamics slider is? I cannot find anything about this in the manual, nor is it mentioned here.
good morning @NativeInstruments.. I just would like to ask regarding how to map the Stradivari with the Seaboard rise 49 or procedures on mapping the seaboard dashboard with the Stradivari...so that we will have an idea..i would to purchase it..but hope you can show a video on how to map the stridivari to seaboard...most of the time I am having problem mapping my seaboard with the NI softwares...thanks very much...my concern is the mapping of the pressure or expressions and glide from the seaboard to NI.thanks..pelase show a video mapping the 5 strokes of seaboard to the NI Stradivari ..would be a great help..thanks
very impressive, beautiful work ! but there's a weird sound on the vibrato when it gets longer... it does not convince me. but id like to buy it n try it, specially for those short amazing techniques !!!
By the demo sounds on the website, I reckon it's too perfect. It's good, but... I wonder if they should've auto-tuned every note. I almost WANT to hear it slightly off, then bending up to the proper, exact pitch.
How to automate different playing techniques ? e.g. I may start the solo with a very emotional constant bowing and minimum vibrato and may be in the middle i want to use a different type of bowing with say increased vibrato. How do i do that in one single performance (in other words 1 single midi performance) ? Can it be done? or do we have to load many instances of kontakt to play specific part differently ?
A small note of criticism here. According to the manual, it states the instrument comes with two patches: Violin multi-mic, and violin (where the last one is a single mic setup to safe resources). One thing I am not getting, the original patch is ehm.. around 3Gb in total. Why aren't the different types of articulations setup as individual patches? (I am looking mainly at for instance CineScore / East West orchestral stuff). In most cases, I score for a single type of articulation (long, short, or just pizzicato as an example). Having all those additional RAM taking samples which I don't tend to use at that given point. Sure I could hit the purge button, but still, I have to wait for all those samples to load up first. Would you please consider to have a separate set of articulations in different patches so it uses less ram. Since I already have seen a promo video that bass and cello are also recorded, and I would assume at this point that having to play those this way would also lead up to an additional 6Gb of ram to load all three instruments. I see this more impracticable to use these large instruments to write a score. That is all I am trying to say at this point (the exact same reason why I tend to avoid using session strings in most cases).
Great idea - borrowed from Emotional Violin and Bohemian Violin. From the sound of it, it's nowhere near the quality of either. At least as of now. 6:03 - is that a bad crossfade or samples recorded in a different room? Planning to fix this now or in the paid Stradivari Violin Professional upgrade?
Very nice work e-Instruments! It will be interesting to see and hear how this compares with the Joshua Bell Violin from Embertone, a VI which may be difficult to top as far as playability goes.
Hello, great work always, but we need a choir library like the voices of the vikings series, the video game the witcher 3, and the trailer for the video game hellblade 2, there is no library like that, thanks
The problem for me is I can't save or load my keystroke setting after define it to my articulation map in Cubase, so I must rewrite my setting every time I create a new project. There is no save or load button or command.
@@Nicdehouwer Typically they release a new product like this just before the new Komplete - but tend not to include it as it will make them money as a stand alone product first, and then it will increase the value of the next Komplete. I might be wrong, but that's how they've done it in the past. It'll prob be around the £150/$180 mark which wouldn't make sense to include it this time round when owners of past editions will get a significantly reduced upgrade price.
@@jameshughes7947 the new Komplete, I'm wondering what came in between 12 and 13.. mallet flux, Noire, the scary voices-Thrill one, the Straylight one, the Straylight voices one, the update to Electric Sunburst, Picked Accoustics,... Anything else? I've bought Noire, Mallet flux and Picked Accoustics already because they're fantastic, but saved the rest for a Komplete
No sul ponticello or sul tasto tremolo, col legno battuto or harmonic finger tremolo? Would be great to also include more of the modern playing techniques. The user interface is impressive though.
@@camartinez6 That's what these libraries are designed for, composers who can't play every instrument or can't afford to hire an orchestra! If you can already play the violin, why would you need this?
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As an actual Cellist and someone who has played in many chamber groups, this is the best sounding solo string library I have ever heard. Great work!
Yeah , ridiculous stuff
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Stradivari is the queen of all violins and her voice is like an angel.
May I please ask, is it possible to change the range of the Stradivari Violin Kontakt Instrument? like make it in the lower scale/octave?
@@user-gy4xp2tu6f I don't think it's possible but there is also a Stradivari Cello.
I can’t get over how beautiful and natural it sounds. But then Kontakt’s development has lead us to this point, a good time to shout out to the entire music community, you all made this possible. ✌️
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Thank you Native Instruments, for the dedication and sheer love all of you have for music, and going out of your way to make it accessible for everyone👌🏼
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Should make a documentary. This technology is preserving the sound of Stradivarius. In time you can sample more Strads.
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Listening to that intro part playing back in logic..through my smartphone even..sent chills down my spine..amazing
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Wow, we're so lucky to have such wonderful historical instruments available to us now. Special time in history.
I have to admit there's nothing like the real thing because it has millions of analog - in between - articulations, but it will sound convincing in any recording except maybe a concerto for solo violin by a real Strad. I can appreciate the amount of work that went into this (not to mention insurance to be allowed to actually touch it) and I think it's well worth the price. Definitely going to get a copy, because this is probably the closest I can ever get to playing one without scaring off rodents and musquitos. Great work NI, love you guys! But it would be cool to add 'unconventional' sounds too, like you did on the Giant 'cinematic' preset (like noise).
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The best solo violin library I have ever bought , I hope you'll make " solo cello, bass, in addition to the other sections solos brass, woodwind etc. 👏👏👏
I know they're working on Stradivari Cello and Amati Viola
Cremona quartet.
I certainly hope they’ll work on a woodwind and then brass library next that functions like this.
Man this is cutting the state-of-the-art edge!
There are no words, to describe this sound. If something is so special and at the same time so natural, it starts feeling for me magical. I got this Violin today, buying an update to Komplete Ultimate 13. I am very thankfull for you work, to make ma able, transporting this magic into music for the humanity. I feel it already in my heart, after i heard the first sounds.
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I´ve used the stradivari violin in my composition "Space Odyssey" and i´m very happy with the sound! 😃👍👍👍
@Native Instruments, thanks for making dreams of those of us who love string instruments but know we can never play one properly come true
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This is probably the best realistic solo Violin library
Wow 😳 this sounds amazing! Great job, Native Instruments 🎻
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Listened and observed various libraries. This is the best sounding and practical to use solo violin vst IMO. Buying immediately. My only concern is only about legato sliding. It sounds a bit mechanical. However, many libraries have the same issue. By the way, I do not like to fully depend on these plugins or such techs to protect recording musicians and avoid a jobless future for all. Therefore, this is more than enough for me to produce a realistic demo for clients who does not really understand. Thanks….
Im glad I bought this!!! Top of the line 🙌🏾
I have been using this to tune my guitars etc. It's an amazing, beautiful piece of work. Bravo!
Special building and even shut down streets - that's most badass plugin move possible!
Stunning Instrument...and mighty fun to play! hats off to NI!
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Best review of this product anywhere on the web. Thank you!
Absolutely insane. Very first time that I can say I would probably not be able to tell the difference. If the Partita #2 excerpt at the end is genuine, I'm just blown away.
It sounds fantastic most of the time. But, I sure we get a FREE update fixing the phasing issues fading in btwn the vibrato and legato.
Native instrument is the best
until now for me the best sampled violin was the joshua bell from embertone , i'll have to try this !!!
I still prefer Embertone
I guess this is a nice product but Embertone and Virharmonic are still better.
Florent Magere I think I’ll go back to audio modeling violin 😝
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Incredible!
Im so excited, tomorrow Ill buy 14 collector edition, cant wait
It's gorgeous! I love it!
Everything is fine about this, except for the Legato. I cannot explain how much I love and enjoy using NI products, but I might have to skip on this just for the legato alone.
The sautillé and short articulations sound fantastic. But there's something really strange going on with the sustains. After a second or so, there's a very odd almost LFO-like modulation that comes in, and it makes it sound very fake.
Yeah it's like the reverb drops out. That's the only thing keeping me from buying
It's the vibrato I think. Definitely the short articulations are freakishly nice
yeeeeeeeeah, yes yes yes you are right !
it does not convince me too. but damn thse short techniques oooooh !
I agree. It's because it's not a real recorded vibrato. They did it as post-processing. Supposedly they emulated the shape of a real vibrato (?) as opposed to just a sine wave. But it sounds off still
@@TheTearsOfAutumnDrea Yes but perhaps when used with other instruments you wouldn't notice this anomaly?
How to slide this vst? I can't find it
You should look for the Kontakt VST ✌️
0:22 It just sounds amazing, does anyone know what the composition is?
cinematic i guess
Can we expect improvements soon for use of this great instrument within a DAW or notation-program like Dorico. I need to be able to define my own key-switches for all available articulations including additional functions like "Sul Ponte", "Con Sordino", "Bowed", "Rebowed", etc. The limit of 8 buttons is impractical. I own Joshua Bell's Stradivarius as well and that one is more useable. I really love the inspiring sound of this Stradivari (Vesuvius) but you have to give us more flexibility in the interface! - René Damen - composer.
Just bought Komplete 13 Ultimate, not cheap but it was a steal at the same time. SO. MUCH. STUFF! It's going to take me three days just to download all of this content! Love it, though my hard drive is whimpering.
That sounds very promising!
Btw, i find it a little funny that Native Instruments chose Reaper as the DAW for these examples, when they don't fully support some key features of Komplete Kontrol in Reaper....
Come on NI, you can do it! Make it happen!!
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You are so right.
You guys make it sound great. Sadly I can't get the vibrato to sound good on long notes. I wanted to love this so much, but there is a strange phasing that happens in my mixes when a long note uses vibrato (which is almost always in my music). It's almost like the violin jumps closer to the mic and back into the hall. I have an easier time manipulating samples that have vibrato recorded into them. I would love to know if anyone has had a similar experience and found a way to get around this.
@@keifferellison45 Great on paper but very limitjng for expression
Amazing achievement! Great job!
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Gee, this is giving every other solo string library a good run for their money.
Sir. What's your another solo violin lib. names? :)
Even Joshua Bell?
@@800pieds it's honestly been a while since I've played around with Joshua Bell, but if I remember correctly the legato is still pretty ahead of this library. The runs on Stradivari sounds pretty good though.
Lol nope, OT and Spitfire are still more playable than this. I REALLY don't understand why NI packed a ton of articulations into this (good) but not giving enough keyswitches for all articulations (terrible), while never moved on to how Spitfire handled articulations (as patches).
This is gonna be a hard no for me, even if it's Stradivari.
@@XiyuYang I'll believe that when I hear it from a trusted reviewer. Spitfire is certainly not the be all end all.
Absolutely love this library! One thing I cannot find any info on anyhere though is what the difference between the expression slider and the dynamics slider is? I cannot find anything about this in the manual, nor is it mentioned here.
good morning @NativeInstruments.. I just would like to ask regarding how to map the Stradivari with the Seaboard rise 49 or procedures on mapping the seaboard dashboard with the Stradivari...so that we will have an idea..i would to purchase it..but hope you can show a video on how to map the stridivari to seaboard...most of the time I am having problem mapping my seaboard with the NI softwares...thanks very much...my concern is the mapping of the pressure or expressions and glide from the seaboard to NI.thanks..pelase show a video mapping the 5 strokes of seaboard to the NI Stradivari ..would be a great help..thanks
Where can I hear that piece of music that's playing in 0:21in its entirety, it's gorgeous!!!
Near 45 secs .....what's that technique called ?
This is insane.
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very impressive, beautiful work ! but there's a weird sound on the vibrato when it gets longer...
it does not convince me. but id like to buy it n try it, specially for those short amazing techniques !!!
Will you offer the viola, 'cello and Contra Bass?
this
My mom had a stratovari violin great instruments
I love Virharmonic's products but they're such a CPU hog, interested to see how this competes with Bohemian Violin. Fingerboard control is intriguing.
My Fisher Viola ran away howling after watching this video
By the demo sounds on the website, I reckon it's too perfect. It's good, but... I wonder if they should've auto-tuned every note. I almost WANT to hear it slightly off, then bending up to the proper, exact pitch.
Can you show to change the articulations on each different note in the same midi
OMG, AMAZING!!!
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I am an Arturia Keylab 61 MK ii user, can I use STRADIVARI VIOLIN? I am using the Cubase application. Please can you help?
How to automate different playing techniques ? e.g. I may start the solo with a very emotional constant bowing and minimum vibrato and may be in the middle i want to use a different type of bowing with say increased vibrato. How do i do that in one single performance (in other words 1 single midi performance) ? Can it be done? or do we have to load many instances of kontakt to play specific part differently ?
Are there different version of the Stradivari Violine? I have not mixer in my version. Is the version in Komplete Ultimate not the full version?
We need Lite version 😢❤
Was considering stuff fr Spitfire but well I'm getting this now Amazing truly amazing
A small note of criticism here. According to the manual, it states the instrument comes with two patches: Violin multi-mic, and violin (where the last one is a single mic setup to safe resources).
One thing I am not getting, the original patch is ehm.. around 3Gb in total. Why aren't the different types of articulations setup as individual patches? (I am looking mainly at for instance CineScore / East West orchestral stuff).
In most cases, I score for a single type of articulation (long, short, or just pizzicato as an example). Having all those additional RAM taking samples which I don't tend to use at that given point. Sure I could hit the purge button, but still, I have to wait for all those samples to load up first.
Would you please consider to have a separate set of articulations in different patches so it uses less ram. Since I already have seen a promo video that bass and cello are also recorded, and I would assume at this point that having to play those this way would also lead up to an additional 6Gb of ram to load all three instruments.
I see this more impracticable to use these large instruments to write a score. That is all I am trying to say at this point (the exact same reason why I tend to avoid using session strings in most cases).
you know you can change the assignment, don't you? just clear all the other articulation slots.
@@mr.gumbarfy9820 ehm.. how?
00:19 amaizing melody 🙆♂️🙆♂️🙆♂️
Great idea - borrowed from Emotional Violin and Bohemian Violin. From the sound of it, it's nowhere near the quality of either. At least as of now. 6:03 - is that a bad crossfade or samples recorded in a different room? Planning to fix this now or in the paid Stradivari Violin Professional upgrade?
yap ! sounds like, aham... xD a zodiac knights soundtrack or something 90's synthed strings section.
but i guess we could fix that problem muting some mics on the mixing interface.
Wow❤❤❤❤
Can I open this through FL Studio 10???
May I please ask, is it possible to change the range of the violin? like make it in the lower scale/octave?
Very nice work e-Instruments! It will be interesting to see and hear how this compares with the Joshua Bell Violin from Embertone, a VI which may be difficult to top as far as playability goes.
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That's awesome
Sounds great!!!!
Am I able to use this with my Maschine mk 3 and in the Maschine 2 software?
Can't wait.
Hello, great work always, but we need a choir library like the voices of the vikings series, the video game the witcher 3, and the trailer for the video game hellblade 2, there is no library like that, thanks
how much money does this vst cost? (if u respond like my.comment so i get notified)
I am in Australia and it says 299 Australian dollars
Would this work well with the Roli Seaboard leveraging its MIDI MPE ?
Oooooh... That's an idea
I have it, and it sounds similar to my other solo strings libraries. (I have emotional violin and Taylor Davis).
@@anyagh8603 hey, I have a Ryzen 1700x, and 16g ram. I'm using NI Maschine as my DAW. I also have other recording DAWs.
The problem for me is I can't save or load my keystroke setting after define it to my articulation map in Cubase, so I must rewrite my setting every time I create a new project. There is no save or load button or command.
What does the midi modulation do in the piano roll?
Wow what an effort, can't wait for this to drop, thank you n.i, huge fan
why one key is always "on" although we are not pressing it its also happening in my kontakt and now I am seeing it in yours
✨💫İt’s an amazing vst. 👍
How to enable polyphony using legato articulation? Any idea?
The legato is off. The rest of the articulations are great.
great work
If this should not be in Komplete 13, I think I'm going to stick with Embertone's Joshua Bell Violin. Has a prettier sound, and perfect legato.
It won't be in Komplete 13
@@jameshughes7947 why do you think that? If they do a collector's edition like K12UCE
@@Nicdehouwer Typically they release a new product like this just before the new Komplete - but tend not to include it as it will make them money as a stand alone product first, and then it will increase the value of the next Komplete. I might be wrong, but that's how they've done it in the past. It'll prob be around the £150/$180 mark which wouldn't make sense to include it this time round when owners of past editions will get a significantly reduced upgrade price.
@@jameshughes7947 the new Komplete, I'm wondering what came in between 12 and 13.. mallet flux, Noire, the scary voices-Thrill one, the Straylight one, the Straylight voices one, the update to Electric Sunburst, Picked Accoustics,... Anything else?
I've bought Noire, Mallet flux and Picked Accoustics already because they're fantastic, but saved the rest for a Komplete
@@Nicdehouwer It's true that the next Komplete should be value for money with the inclusion of those products.
Can’t wait
Anyone know how to get it to respond to pitch bend in pro tools? It doesn't respond the way I normally write pitch bends in
Hi
Can that be played with a midi violin as a controller
I'm new at music production. Can I use the Stardivari violin on a previous Kontakt other than the 6th?
You will need 6.2.2 and higher for this one 🔁
@@NativeInstruments Thank you
How does this compare with 8DIO's deep sampled violin library?
NI - Or - Can anybody tell me for how long the Cremona Quartet will be At the intro bundle price of $399.oo please! Thanks!!
it sounds like you're playing an actual violin, wow
Spitfire solo violin stills my star :)
Is there a way to do Bartok Pizz?
No sul ponticello or sul tasto tremolo, col legno battuto or harmonic finger tremolo?
Would be great to also include more of the modern playing techniques.
The user interface is impressive though.
4:43 - sul ponticello
5:02 - col legno battuto
sounds good
nothing beats Audio modeling Swam Libraries with little Size they are very powerful realistic and amazingly real time controllable
How's this compare to Audio Modeling swam violin
can I connect my violin and use this vst to get this sound? like with my guitar using amplitube?
Don't think so, this is different to that type of plug in
Gordon Heaney Guitarologist and Flatulist so this only benefits pianist / composers that’s stupid
@@camartinez6 That's what these libraries are designed for, composers who can't play every instrument or can't afford to hire an orchestra! If you can already play the violin, why would you need this?
@@GordonHeaney I like the sound, just like amplitube works for guitar.
Is this is a solo VST or as other NAtive instruments is tied to Kontakt ?
It's a Kontakt library.
It would be cool if it was possible to control it through electric violin. Just like with midi keyboard
I've Kontakt 6 and I can't play it anymore.... "Your Kontakt version is too old".... same with NOIRE, etc....?! Super
What is 0:44 to 0:47 called? Vibrato? How can I do it in DAW?
Logic pro, available on mac only
@@48687 I know, I meant how does that violin sounds like that? How can I make violin make that sound in DAW? 😅 Anyway, thanks for your reply.
@@auxokarpo.m 🤦🤦🤦sorry, I misread 😄
@@48687 All good 👍
Do a tutorial how u composed this
can I play poly all sounds?
unfortunately, it seems possible only with short articulations, i don't understand why..
HELP ME PLEASE! HOW TO WRITE A SLIDE/GLIDE? I REALLY NEED THIS SMOOTH TRANSITION FROM ONE NOTE TO ANOTHER. HELP ME PLEASE!!! I WORK IN FL STUDIO.
We'd suggest to refer to the manual part 8.5 for information on Legato modes: bit.ly/3ycuTHz 📕