Glissando Crowhill?

Hello crowhill, your glass strings library is truly wonderful, however, I am unable to let it be the only string library I will ever need, because it still lacks glissando.

Glissando is an important expressive part of string playing, and I haven’t found a single vst that does this well.

Is it impossible ? I believe if anyone can attack the impossible it seems to be you guys.

But I need and am sure others do too, a VST that can do glissando from all intervals, at different speeds, up and down on all all the strings from first violins down to the bass and everything inbetween. As delicate control as you can get.

I’m not sure about others, but I don’t know how to reproduce an effective glissando mockup with what exists currently, any help would be much appreciated.

But I can’t afford to pay and record a couple of string players to test out some glissando each time I need it on a mockup here and there.

Anyway just throwing out the idea, if crowhill could tackle this, you’d truly be top of the food chain.

That’s my 2 cents of the day.

All the best
James

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By Glissando, do you mean the horror type / aleatoric type?
If so, I’d agree.

There is a free preset in The Free Orchestra by Project Sam called “Wretched Risers” which is tempo synced and you can also customise the speed, and actually speaking of glisses, theres a great free Gliss pack someone uploaded to Pianobook / Audio Inc. for Violin which I use personally (I’m too broke for things like the more expensive libraries like Albion Uist etc.)
https://www.pianobook.co.uk/packs/violin-gliss/

But yes it would be good if Crow Hill tackled something like that.

I see, I’m looking for something that is as controllable as possible, not just for horror movies, sometimes, you need slow glissandos, sometimes fast.

This is an example where it is basically the opposite of a riser, a descending glissando:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OEzKDs84Wzk&list=PLDisKgcnAC4RtgGlsoTngz9Y19JnANM0f&index=4

Not sure how to produce such an effect with any VSTs that exist.

The free orchestra you mentioned only seems to provide ascending string risers.