EXS24: Create portamento/legato for Flute Melody [SOLVED]

[Neel.music]

Hi,

 

I am new into logic pro, was trying to emulate an Indian flute using the EXS24 Indian Bansuri flute patch.

I am trying to achieve sliding or gliding type of effect for a melody line to be able to change from one note to another continuously without jumping, I am basically trying to emulate the Indian style of playing a flute. Can anyone please help me out in this aspect?

Is there anyway for me to change tempo(maybe sync it to my projects current tempo) and level of the very prominent Vibrato that is present in the samples?

 

Thanks a lot

Neel

[Atlas007]

You could try the Portamento And Modulation router of the EXS itself and/or load in the Vibrato plugin.

http://documentation.apple.com/en/logicstudio/instruments/index.html#chapter=12%26section=4

 

 

http://documentation.apple.com/en/logicexpress/effects/index.html#chapter=9%26section=9%26tasks=true

[Rev. Juda Sleaze]

You've basically got 2 options for the portamento; set the EXS to legato and adjust the glide time. Or, still in legato mode, change the pitch wheel amount to the maximum portamento slide you want, then play all the slides by hand (tricky without some practice, but do-able).

 

As for the vibrato, unless there is pitch being affected by an LFO in the EXS' mod matrix, the vibrato is on the recorded sample and there's very little you can do about it

[Mark R]

was trying to emulate an Indian flute using the EXS24 Indian Bansuri flute patch.

 

I was curious so I checked out this particular patch. It is one of the many EXS patches that have wonderful mod wheel programming built in. In this case five switching layers await you.

 

In case you're not familiar with this technique of adding expression, you adjust the wheel with one hand while playing a melody with the other. Tricky but fun. And can give you beautiful results once you get the hang of it. You can also automate the mod wheel after the fact using Logic's Hyperdraw. The 3rd layer has no vibrato by the way.

 

And like the others suggested, clicking on either the Legato or Mono buttons and playing with the glide slider for portamento should get you close to what you want.

[Neel.music]

Thanks all!!! Thanks Mark!! I just used the hyperdraw to automate the Modulation!!! It changed the feel of the piece completely!!! I still have to try out the pitch wheel playing... or maybe will automate that as well from Hyperdraw!!

[Mark R]

Your welcome Neel.music

 

I‘m going to have to try out the Indian Bansuri flute in a comp soon. Thanks for reminding us of its existence in logic.