This is Abba’s classic SOS once again in Cubase.

This time the instrument is the Vienna Symphonic Orchestra’s Orchestral Strings ‘Strings All’ patch set to the default, 41S Strings Staccato.

This brings up something I’m happy to say. The limitation here isn’t the instrument or me. It’s how much time I have to devote to assigning the correct patch to the proper phrase.

You’ll notice that often the staccato phrasing doesn’t match what Abba original did, and VSO can certainly do it as intended, but I just can’t be bothered to do all that work by hand just for fun.

I’m using the UV22HR mastering plugin, Dynamics (set to ‘Full Dynamics’ again, Studio EQ set to ‘Mixed Choir’ to bring the lows and highs out and RoomWorks SE once more for the reverb, it’s set to ‘Church’).

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