Up/Down Strokes in Shreddage/Shreddage X

[Armageddon]

After test-driving a lot of guitar libraries and VIs both big and small on a friend's machine, I am about to purchase Shreddage/Shreddage X, but I had a question that, unfortunately, hasn't been covered on either your main site or in your user's manuals. In your main "Quick Play" multi-patch (or in any of the "main" patches), how exactly is up/down stroke addressed? It appears from your site and the manual that there is an 8x round robin feature, but is this an automatic up/down function just by pressing the same key twice? I've tried playing THE main "Quick Play" patch (just DI only) and I can't honestly tell whether or not the powerchords and sustains are following an up/down stroke, or how the round robin function is even accessed (though I would assume, given the ease in which you set up your patches, it's all taking place under the hood). I wasn't sure if I had to load up a combo of up/down patches to create one instrument that did this or what. Thanks in advance for your help!

[mhassau]

http://www.kvraudio.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=318174

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[Armageddon]

http://www.kvraudio.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=318174

it's all about this...

I appreciate the response! I actually had looked into this thread before even signing up for this forum as I tried searching for an answer. However, even after reading it -- and I apologize for being as dense as lead here! -- I'm as confused as before. All the patches and multis not marked "Down Only" contain round robin scripting? And is that for open chords as well as sustains? I'm used to having keyswitching (or in a VI like MOR, playing right or left hand to emulate up and downstrokes)

[mhassau]

Shreddage X has no built in Down or Up stroke only patches or keyswitches/controllers. You must re-organize groups and wavs and create patches by yourself.

[Armageddon]

I was actually talking about the original Shreddage (though I would assume I'd also buy Shreddage X) ...

[zircon]

If you're talking about the original Shreddage, ALL patches have round-robin scripting regardless of whether they are down-only, up-only or up/down (the default). So with a normal, up/down patch, here's what you're hearing when you hit the same key 8 times:

Down1 Up1 Down2 Up2 Down3 Up3 Down4 Up4

Each number represents a different recording entirely, so Down2 and Down1 are both downstrokes, but different recordings, for more realism.

If you pick the down-only or up-only patches, you would get:

Down1 Down2 Down3 Down4 for four presses, or
Up1 Up2 Up3 Up4

Does this answer your question?

[Armageddon]

zircon, that is EXACTLY what I was asking -- the manual didm't make it clear, for example, that the QuickPlay patch (or any patch that wasn't specifically labeled "Down" in some way) in Shreddage was Down/Up on the same key in any way. I almost assumed that, given the round robin scripting and the mention of it elsewhere on the site, forum and the manual, that down/up strokes were represented, it just wasn't clear how it worked. If I have a nitpick with the library (sample set?), that would be the only one, since down and up strokes are probably an important part of the 'realism" process ... but that would be the only problem. I think it's awesome there's a rhythm-centric guitar library out there at all and this one sounds pretty damn nice, from what I've messed around with it so far, so this one will almost certainly be getting my money.

[zircon]

I gotcha; next revision of the site/manual I'll have to clarify things a bit better. Thanks for bringing it up and let me know if I can answer anything else