funny how things work out. the expensive fake strings had too much reverb baked into the samples and no way to get it out. please, people - keep your samples dry. let me do the effects work myself. its especially problematic for the staccato, which you dont want bleeding off between the notes. the free fake strings initially seemed to have better staccato, but upon listening to them over and over they lacked a level of depth. i tried a few effects, but it was just a lack of character. my machine cant really handle the expensive string plugin. its bad programming - theres no reason, in theory, that i cant run a sampler on a dual core processor with over a gb of free ram but its doing it over three application levels and a far-too-fancy gui. its not the samples thats eating the ram, its the sampler. but, hey, youve all got 16 gb of ram to waste, right? ive got 2 i can use... what i can do is run each phrase one at a time through the sampler, dump them to wave and then mix them into the project as wave files. theres no loss in quality. so, i ran all the expensive fake strings through and mixed them at roughly half the volume of the free fake strings, just to beef the free ones (which have a better staccato, but lack depth) up a bit. i think its finally sounding the way i want, but ill have to confirm in a few hours. its really amazing, though, that im using a thousand dollar plugin as a secondary sound source to a free one. remember kids: markets dont work. you usually dont get what you pay for...
Posted on: Thu, 28 Aug 2014 08:36:03 +0000
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