Okay, now let's have a look at the Studio
Strings software instruments. So let's create
a new software instrument by hitting the new
track button up here, this little plus button,
going over to Software Instrument and then
selecting Studio Strings, and Stereo. Let's
hit create, and here is the Studio Strings.
So I'm just going to open up Musical Typing
by hitting Command and K. Instantly we can
tell that these sounds actually sound pretty
good for string samples. They have sampled
in and recorded real string players to get
these sounds and if we click on Violins 1
here, we get all these different instruments.
So we get Small Section, Disco Strings, Singer/Songwriter,
String Ensemble, or we can have Single Instruments,
Violin, Violin Two, Violas, Cellos, and Double
Basses. You'll notice when you play different
octaves on here, it will actually be the same
as the ranges on these instruments. So, for
example, play a note down in this octave range.
We won't be able to hear this violin, because
violins can't physically go that low. However,
if I change this to Double Bass, you can hear
this double bass here, because double basses
play in this range. Let's click on Violins
and my favorite thing about this instrument
is the articulation. One thing we can actually
do is set different articulations for different
midi notes, which I think is absolutely amazing,
which we'll look at very shortly. But here
we have the different articulations. So we
have Sustain, let's just put the octave up.
So, we have Sustain, Staccato, a shorter sound,
spiccato, I have Fall Long. It's a good idea
to go through all of these just to have a
listen to the sound. Fall Short, Scoop Fast,
That's quite an interesting one. Scoop slow,
and like I said, you can have different midi
notes playing this. So, it doesn't have to
be say, Scoop Slow, all the way through. It
could just be one little section that has
Scoop Slow. Then we have Accented Sustain.
Then we have Crescendo Fast, Crescendo Slow,
and a few other ones as well. Fortepiano Fast,
Fortepiano Slow, Some of these terms are the
classical terms or the Italian terms, Glissando.
It's a good idea if you're not used to these
terms just to physically listen to them all.
You don't really need to memorize all of these
terms. Pizzicato, which is one of my favorites.
Trill, which is also one of my favorites.
Trill Semi, Trill Whole, and Tremolo, which
is a really great sound on this instrument.
Create some dramatic music, introductions,
buildups, if you're making film score, anything
like that tremolo can be really fun. And then
we have cut off because we have a filter.
So, that we can filter out some of the higher
sounds, bring it back in, it's a little bit
automated as well. Resonance, so you can have
a little boost before the cutoff. However,
if the resonance is too high at a certain
cutoff, it might create a ringing sound which
isn't always the nicest pair with alpha volume.
We have the attack if you want to come in
slower. I've got a fast attack if you want
to enter straight away. Sometimes, the strings
slow attack come in nice. So, it gradually
builds in and we can have a fast release so
it'll let go. Off the note now the sound will
stop. If I increase this release and I let
go of the note, let go there, it will still
ring out. Which is quit nice for string sounds.
I do like to add reverb to my string sounds
as well. So, I do recommend maybe adding some
reverb. And going down here, we also have
this little drop down arrow which will show
more cotrols. We have monophonic as well.
So, if this is switched on and see I'm playing
two notes here we can only hear one, it's
just gonna play monophonic mode. So, just
one note at a time. If I have it switched
off, it will get polyphonic. So, it's playing
two notes at the same time here. I'm just
gonna decrease this release and the attack,
Okay and if we go to say, cellos you'll notice
we have the articulation mode as well. So,
for these different single instruments of
course, also for the sections, we will have
the articulation modes. I think this is absolutely
amazing we've got all these articulation modes
that include with Logic Pro. Before you might
have to use something like Kontakt which is
a third party plugin. Now you can do a loads
of really interesting string sounds just in
Logic Pro. Okay, then we have auto voice split.
So, when we play in a section like this it
will actually have different notes for different
instruments. So, for example, the higher ones
will be the violins, the lower ones may be
the cellos or the double bass depending on
what section you have. So, it's just going
to split the samples on the keyboard depending
on how high or low you are. So, I recommend
having to play with that on if you want to
have more authentic sounding section. You
change this to say, violins you'll notice
that buttons disappeared. We only get this
on the sections because, in the sections we
have different string instruments. And it's
a good idea already because, you do want the
double basses and the cellos to play lower,
the violists to play mid ranges and the violins
to play higher if you want to make your strings
sound more authentic. Okay, and goin down
we have dynamics via CC. So, this allows us
to have dynamic expression control by midi.
So, we can use the modulation wheel on our
midi keyboard to control the dynamic expression.
So, if I play now, and then I turn this on,
notice it sounds quite different. And when
I move my modwear alotbuds, it will sound
like this and decrease the dynamics will change.
Okay, an let's have a look down at the advance
settings. Just remember we need to hit this
little arrow to see the advanced settings.
So, we have some controls for vibrato, dynamics,
we can turn on or off legato between transitions
and going over we have some voice split settings.
Can also extend the key range which will mean
we can play the samples out of the range it
should be played on the instruments. This
may sound a bit artificial and a bit fake.
However, if you're just writing in parts quickly
or just sketching out ideas, this can be useful.
So, let's just change this to say, violin.
Okay, have extended key range selected and
let's just for example say just go really
low, and change pizzicato to sustain 
and you can hear some violin sounds here.
Does sound quite artificial. It might be quite
fun for soundscape or sound design. However,
if you want it to sound realistic, I don't
recommend having this checked. They can be
used for, like I said, just for sketching
out some ideas and it also say down here last
played articulation. Right now it's tremolo.
If we change this to, lets say, pizzicato,
it's not going to say pizzicato and then,
when I play, it will say pizzicato. Now, let's
go into this track here. I'm just going to
play this little section. And this piano part
here, this electric piano part, I want this
played on strings as well. So, I'm just going
to hold down Alt and drag this down and let's
solo this. Let's just open up the midi information
in the piano roll and here we could actually
say select these notes as first chord and
now we can right click and then we can go
down to articulation. So, you can choose what
articulation we want just for this bit of
midi information which I think is amazing.
So, I'm going to choose tremolo You notice
there's legato again. This bit, I could have
tremolo again. So, let's go down to articulation
but this time, trill whole I'm gonna choose.
Now, last time I'm gonna right click just
for example sake, and go to fall long. Lets
here this now. Maybe this note here, I'm gonna
change this one just for the example to fall
short. Okay, let's here this now. Okay, this
might not be the best thing or the song but
for this example, I can show you how you can
change these articulations for each individual
midi note. I've just selected them all now
just by dragging over and if I right click
again I can select articulation and let's
change it back to sustain. I would normally
add some kind of reverb on to this as well.
So, I'm just going to go down to reverb and
then choose chromaverb. So, it just sounds
a bit lusher and we can choose stereo hall.
It will sound a bit lusher little bit of reverb
on the strings. Let's hear this in the mix
with this track. Now, I've added some strings.
Can you hear the strings? And without the
strings. If you'll just go back into the strings
I might change this to say, string ensemble
and let's hear what this sounds like as well.
So, you can really hear that low double bass
now. I think that might be a bit to much for
this track so, I'm going to go back and just
change this to small section because I do
think that low double bass is bit too much
and there's just too many frequencies at that
range for this track. But, I think for this
song, using a small section could really work.
So, that's how you can use this Studio Strings
software instrument in Logic Pro. Hope you
find this useful and I'll see you in the next
lecture.
