What is "Human Touch" and how does it work?

The Human Touch controls are designed to define the "organic" quality of your ensemble performance. By having an entire orchestra under your fingertips, you have the power to decide the level of performance precision—or intentional imprecision—across three key areas:

• Pitch: Controls the intonation accuracy of the ensemble; choose whether every instrument is perfectly in tune or introduces natural, subtle variations.

• Timing: Defines the ensemble's synchronization; determine if all instruments trigger at the exact same instant or if there is a more natural, human-like dispersion.

• Expression: Manages how the ensemble follows dynamic changes; adjust how uniformly or independently the instruments respond to your expression commands.

Deep Dive: How the Engine Brings the Ensemble to Life

The Human Touch module employs a stochastic (probabilistic) algorithm that breaks digital sterility by introducing independent, organic micro-variations across every instrument in your ensemble. This ensures that the ensemble sounds like a group of real, individual players rather than a rigid, mechanical layering of identical engines.

Key Functional Pillars

• Intelligent Timing Jitter: The module introduces microscopic, independent delays to the note-on attacks within a chord. To safeguard your rhythmic feel and "groove," the engine ensures the first detected note is always played at zero latency. Furthermore, the note-off commands automatically inherit the exact delay of their corresponding attack, ensuring the musical duration of every note remains perfectly intact.

• Asymmetric Expression: In the Expression domain, the module introduces subtle, asymmetrical deviations to your controller curves. This ensures that even when you move the main Expression fader, the individual virtual instruments do not respond in a perfectly synchronized, robotic fashion. Instead, they react with slight, autonomous nuances, mirroring the independent bowing or breath variations of real orchestral players.

In summary, Human Touch transforms your polyphonic input into a living, breathing performance, balancing the power of real-time control with the necessary imperfections that make an orchestra sound truly human.