Shine On You Crazy Diamond | Stringer Tutorial

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SonicProjects Stringer virtual vintage String Machine Solina ARP Omni Logan emulation comprehensive Tutorial.

Table of contents:

00:00:00 Intro
00:00:50 Some Presets
00:05:15 Engines Overview
00:08:06 Sample Engine
00:10:39 Pure Sawtooth Engine
00:11:30 Divide-Down Engine
00:17:51 Layer Engines
00:19:32 Bass Engine
00:22:49 Split Engines
00:25:22 Envelope Types
00:30:41 Ensemble Effects
00:33:36 Modulation Effects
00:36:56 Reverb Effect
00:38:26 Patch Browser
00:45:52 Outro
00:50:00 Function Wallpaper

Stringer is a hybrid virtual String Machine emulation containing both samples and VA component emulation.

It offers these sound-building components:

A Sample engine offering multi-samples from 3 chosen String Machines
A Pure Sawtooth engine (synth-style generated)
A fully polyphonic Divide-Down engine (emulating frequency divider chips)
A monophonic bass engine
4 different Ensemble effects cloned from the Solina and Omni circuits
8 different envelope types (3 polyphonic, 5 monophonic)
Modulation effects (chorus, flanger, phaser, ensemble)
Reverb effect

The multi-samples in the sample engine are chosen presets sampled from:
Logan String Melody II (O and Organ)
ARP Omni-2 (Violin and Violin without Chorus)
Welson Symphony (Horn&Trumpet/Brass and Violin)

It's every key sampled with loop lenghts up to 4 seconds aligned to the natural beating which makes the loop points virtually inaudible.

To achieve maximum signal integrity high-end Apogee (TM) converters offering a clock jitter of less than 22 pico seconds were used for the A/D conversion. This gives the sounds an unparalleled shiny vivid depth and 3d-feel.

Each of these machines have an own distinct character which makes them very suited for layering together:
The Logan is fat and juicy
The Omni is clear, shining and shimmery
The Welson is warm and restrained

Stringer offers two main engines (upper, lower) which can be layered and split. Each offers the same multi-samples and the pure sawtooth mode.

The upper engine additionally can be turned into a Divide-Down engine emulating the frequency-divider chips used in many vintage string machines.

These used a master oscillator chip in the highest octave generating the 12 notes of the highest octave. The notes of the lower octaves then simply were derived from these using frequency-divider chips (which are very cheap). This resulted in rigid/fixed phases between the octaves, which was very typical for these machines.

In the lower engine you either can ADD a bass (P1 and P2 in envelope types) or turn it to pure bass mode (using the "Bass" button).

Fixed Ensemble effects:
The fixed ensemble effects (4 types) were cloned from the circuits of real devices (Sonina, Omni).

Using the divide-down engine as base (which by default uses a monophonic envelope, so one envelope for all keys like in the Solina, with the same behaviour) and then sending it through the ensemble effect you can create your own String Ensemble from scratch.

But Stringer allows to freely combine all of the available components. So you can combine samples with generated divide-down sawtooth engine, combine samples with monophonic envelopes, add bass, add effects on top of ensemble, etc.

This gives you unparalleled freedom of creativity.

Not covered in the tutorial:

OVER button: Formerly (before version 3.0) used for split-overlap, since 3.0 this button can reduce brightnesss (0 = max brightness) in the pure sawtooth mode (all buttons off). Doesn't apply to samples and divide-down engine.

COPY button: Doesn't copy a patch but stamps the done edits into the preset slot so that the edits remain after switching presets. This however still is temporary until the patch or the whole bank is being saved as file."