I hate keyswitches (so I made this)

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[@ZachHeyde]

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[@rgferreira78]

This video is pure liquid gold for many reasons, but among them my favorite is: THE MANUAL 😅 Thanks and good luck with your recent project C&C community. Best regards from Spain.

[@Kobozo375]

Excellent tutorial, thank you!

[@imperialdawnaudio]

I have always wondered how to do this. As a rather proficient logic user, I am so ecstatic to see my workflow can improve exponentially as well as resource management!😱

[@RachelHardy]

Hey Zach! Do you know how to get Touch OSC to switch articulation templates depending on what instrument patch is loaded in Logic?

[@CurtisSchweitzer]

What has always bugged me is the fact that it isn't like the articulations themselves aren't standardized-- no one is going to try to play a pizzicato flute-- so I don't get why there isn't something in the VST or VST2 or whatever spec for a DAW to say: this note spicatto, this note staccato, this note something else, etc. You could even have a few assignable empty ones for weird things that the VST dev wants to do.

[@jamesr141]

This is awesome.

[@ReubenCornell]

Worth investigating libraries by Impact Soundworks and Red Room Audio that have inbuilt ways to change keyswitches to other control methods... velocity switching, pedal, MIDI CC etc etc

[@rasputin1917]

Yes, generally, key switches are not recommended for virtual orchestration when producing/arranging.

[@joost3783]

thanks for the tip the app looks awesome! Are you aware of any valid alternatives as well that you maybe haven't used because you've gotten used to touch osc but that may be better overall? Just trying to get the right software here but touch osc really looks great in combination with what you're doing there

[@duded2521]

hey there, thank you so much from germany. I like your nerdy stuff... it is so helpfull. here are much more nerds than u think

[@Med2402]

It worked for me on Studio One, thank you

[@TomBaxterMusic]

Hi Zach. Big fan of your tutorials. As an established composer and songwriter I still green tricks off you which are very enlightening to my work flow. My question to you is I’m wondering why you don’t use ‘Art conductor’ ? It’s a great way getting clarity in the many libraries we store.

[@Julian-wx9cn]

Agreed, never liked keyswitches as well. Each instrument has its own set of articulations and the faster you get lost as the template grows. I'm working in Cubase with Expression Maps and I don't think I will look back soon. I checked out Logic's articulations but I found Cubase EMap way more powerfull. Also the UI is very nice because it shows all the articulations the respective instruments have at once. No drop down menu etc. There are some crazy stupid flaws to Expression Maps and they should be redone from scratch completely (programming interface is a bad joke), but for me the functionality seems the best on the marked.

[@tygoldsmith8896]

Dope!

[@jenssieckmann]

Nice video, Zach. Seems to be really helpful. For what I've seen with the Logic articulation switches regarding CSS: it seems to me that you cannot cover all articulations, at least not with CC58 alone. For example you shouldn't be able to switch to marcato legato. Legato on/off is a switch, so must trigger CC58 with two values, one for marcato and one for the legato on.

[@homeofcreation]

You can save yourself a lot of work if you head over to Babylonwaves.

[@RaphaelPerfeito]

I use mostly East West Libraries cause of the composercloud, my daw is studio one, when i open a keyswitch patch, it automatically crate the keyswitches configuration on the daw, so i don't need to edit anything.

[@darrinsiberia]

i prefer keyswitches for example with cello. if i have a melodic line and suddenly i switch between legato and spiccato i want to see the melody in one line, not jumped between two tracks. also i can slide my keyswitches so i always have them the same and i have memorized them by now.

[@jonathanparham]

very helpful