Adjust vibrato in Virtual Playing Orchestra

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#1

Is there a way for me to change the vibrato in VPA? I’m on a Linux machine.

#2

What do you want to change about it? The speed? The depth? The controller assignment?

If the vibrato is not baked into the samples, you can change the SFZ files yourself. See https://sfzformat.com for reference and tutorials.

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#3

@christal.stroup

AFAIK, the VPO samples do not offer any option to change vibrato. For instance, on the Strings section (which offers more articulations than any other section), here are my choices for VLA:

$ cd /media/tseaver/sounds/Virtual-Playing-Orchestra3
[/media/tseaver/sounds/Virtual-Playing-Orchestra3] 
$ ls -C Strings/viola-S*
Strings/viola-SEC-accent.sfz            Strings/viola-SEC-tremolo.sfz
Strings/viola-SEC-KS-C2.sfz             Strings/viola-SOLO-accent.sfz
Strings/viola-SEC-normal-mod-wheel.sfz  Strings/viola-SOLO-KS-C2.sfz
Strings/viola-SEC-PERF-KS-C2.sfz        Strings/viola-SOLO-normal-mod-wheel.sfz
Strings/viola-SEC-PERF-pizzicato.sfz    Strings/viola-SOLO-PERF-KS-C2.sfz
Strings/viola-SEC-PERF.sfz              Strings/viola-SOLO-PERF-pizzicato.sfz
Strings/viola-SEC-PERF-staccato.sfz     Strings/viola-SOLO-PERF.sfz
Strings/viola-SEC-PERF-tremolo.sfz      Strings/viola-SOLO-PERF-staccato.sfz
Strings/viola-SEC-pizzicato.sfz         Strings/viola-SOLO-pizzicato.sfz
Strings/viola-SEC-staccato.sfz          Strings/viola-SOLO-staccato.sfz
Strings/viola-SEC-sustain.sfz           Strings/viola-SOLO-sustain.sfz

There aren’t any more articulations for the other strings. This isn’t too surprising, as the amount of effort (and bandwidth, and cost) to record and program good vibrato samples is enormous.

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