This is how my E-violin sounds:
http://www.derknott.de/EVIOLIN%20sound.mp3
& This is the original UNPROCESSED E-Violin-Sound...
http://www.derknott.de/EVIOLIN sound DRY.mp3
Anyway, I am 'fiddling' around with it for some time and I am fed up with keeping it as my secret weapon instead of discussing it in a community. That makes more sense, because maybe that way we can put something together which makes this process a lot easier!?
So the Idea is very similar to MCabinet, which I have the impression does not work so well for violin.
I will try to explain how my way works:
I There are 2 different scenarios:
1. An acoustic violin with a pickup
2. An E-Violin
which should sound like a real violin and we all know, this is a struggle since there are pickups and E-violins and it seems to be even worse than with Acoustic Guitars with a piezo-Pickup.
II And there are two basic processes which can help to pimp the electric violin Sound in the acoustic direction.
1. Make an impulse response from the corpus of the violin
(For that you need a small hammer or similar and a Microphon (small condenser in some cases preferred, but any microphone will work, which gives you a nice acoustic violin sound) and then be creative. I have the impression, that there is no standard way of doing it. It would help, if you standardize your way to have coherent output, if you want to process many of these impulses. And I think it helps a lot, if it's bright sounding, because that's the most important range in the violin spectrum and a neutral impulse response from an instrument-body sounds bright somehow. )
After you have your impulse response you have to tweak it, to be useful. In most cases it will lack high frequencies... Now there is a perfect way to adopt it's frequency range:
2. With MFreeformEQ you compare your electric (pickup or bodyless e-violin output) violin signal processedwith that impulse response to that sound with a microphone. It seems that this is a personal process for each instrument and each setup, because violinsound ca vary soooo much and pickupsound can vary soooo much.
So the easiest way is to record your pickup-sound and your microphone sound at the same time and then you have exactly the same source for comparing. In Freeform EQ you learn the Target (Violin Pickup with MConvolution loaded with the IR you produced) and the Source (The acoustic Microphone sound) and then "Make Target sound like source". That makes a lot difference and I have to say, that the eviolin sound is so much harder to get THAT sound.
Doing this with an E-Violin you have to play the same notes on the acoustic and the E and then compare the Convolution processed E violin with the acoustic ... but that is really much harder, to get satified.
It is important to set MFreeform EQ to Minimum phase and Extreme Quality. Without minimum phase you would have latency.
You could produce an IR from that combination, but you have to cut it again and for that reason it woukld be fantastic, to have a Melda-device which combines both: MConvolver and Freeform EQ.
If I understand the concept of MCabinet right, this device will not work very well for violin. It sounds quite nice, but it seems not to have that woody vibrating violin Corpus.
Correct me, if I'm wrong.
After that again adding saturation, Equing and reverb rounds it up to a phenomenal live-sound which I have not heard so far live from a pickupped violin.
There's even a really evil way, to make sound your Violin like a Cello and even like an Upright-base. It really works and is absolutely insane in a Live context. I wouldn't use that for recording
Maybe we can build something together or help each other!?
Martin
. I must say I don't play violin (one of the few instruments I'm not playing and never will 
), so I don't know much about this. I also think creating a special plugin for this may be an overkill, since there probably aren't many violinists. Anyways if you'd come to some ideal "workflow", we can think about it 
