Strings · Source 02

Violin.

Written as MIDI. Played as a violin.

Write the line in your piano roll and get a violin back on the track — bowed through the notes you tied, re-attacked where you left a gap.

Play it in the browser or on a track in your DAW · dø1, $12 a month with Pro
§ 01 · Hear it

Hear it.

Listen for the bow. The tied notes sit under one stroke; the separated ones each get their own. The long note swells where the velocity rises.

The part is the melody of After You’ve Gone — 34 notes at 138 bpm, the one the chooser on /sources plays on every instrument. This is the violin’s render as it came back: nothing played, sampled or edited.

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Take 1 · Violin
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The chooser’s melody — 34 notes at 138 bpm — rendered as violin. Nothing played, sampled or edited.

§ 02 · In your DAW

MIDI in. Audio out.

Write the part in the piano roll you already use — Logic Pro, Ableton Live, FL Studio, REAPER, Cubase and Studio One — with dø1 on the track, or upload a .mid at /tools/sources. Notes, timing and velocity are read as written.

What comes back is a violin take: dry, close-mic, 24-bit / 48 kHz, on the track it came from. Usually 20 to 60 seconds. Render again and you get a different take.

Rendering in the browser is free with an account — 120 credits a month, 10 per 30-second render. The plugin is part of Pro, $12 a month: 2,000 credits, dø1 (AU and VST3) and Dø Desktop, which installs it.

Get the DAW plugin AU & VST3 · installs with Dø Desktop
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Strings · Violin
In
MIDI — the piano roll on a dø1 track, or a .mid at /tools/sources
Out
A violin take · dry, close-mic · 24-bit / 48 kHz
Range
G3–A7
Presets
Arco · Pizzicato · Fiddle
Time
20 to 60 seconds a render
Price
$12 a month with Pro · free in the browser with an account

Bowing is phrasing.

The hardest thing to program on a sampled violin is the bow: which notes share one, where it changes direction, how much pressure it carries. Each of those is a sound, and a sampler has none of them. Here the phrase is rendered whole, so tied notes sit under one bow and a long crescendo is one bow leaning in.

G3–A7 runs from the G string’s dark bottom to the E string’s brilliant top, and where the line sits changes the sound more than any setting. Pizzicato is a different instrument — hard attack, fast decay, no bow noise — which is why it is a preset here rather than a short envelope.

Questions.

Does it bow the notes I tie?

Yes. Overlapping or tied notes render as a connected, bowed line; gaps render as separate attacks.

Can I write a string section?

Render each part — firsts, seconds and so on — as its own stem and mix them. Each render is one player.

Is pizzicato included?

Yes, as a preset, beside arco and a fiddle colour.

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