Alright, first of all, let me know if the link doesn't work. I'm trying to use Google Drive to share stuff at the moment.
This is, much to my chagrin, really another template question as it's really nothing more than a few ideas squashed together right now, and is far, far from resembling a piece of finished music. But, per Sam's info here, I've realized, as I've been working on these ideas, that my bass section is a possible mud source. Accordingly, I have started experimenting with cutting some of the low end from it, something which I was loath to do in the past. Low frequencies were booming up out of the depths and eating everything around them; although, I'm not sure if cutting has done anything but taken the punch out of the basses. Some objective ears will no doubt be useful here.
I'm trying to challenge myself a bit and make "action" music, which I think is one of my weaker areas. This was inspired by a scene from Stormbringer in which Elric and co. see the Ships of Hell bearing down on them for the first time during a naval battle.
Just noticed that the main navigation menu on my site seems broken on Chrome (but works fine in Firefox). Hover over it and you'll notice. Can anyone confirm this? Just making sure it's not a problem only on my end.
Here is my latest piece for a game that is currently being developed, I would love to get some feedback from this forum!
The style is probably more cinematic, not actually game music, since the game is heavily based on the story and the developers asked for a track to compliment their presentation trailer.
Hello everyone! My name is Chris Harris and I was recently invited to join this group by a friend. I used to run my own reviewing series on YouTube called Samples Spotlight. Due to personal reasons, I shut down my reviewing side of things. I still think that they can be useful so I created an unlisted playlist of all of my reviews for your consumption (linked below). I hope that they can be a valuable resource to those who are wanting to invest money into this expensive endeavor. I would also like to make myself available to answer any questions about those libraries I've reviewed if I didn't cover any questions you've had about them.
I'm looking forward to contributing to this community and learning from you all.
Ok, I feel kind of like a dummy not being able to do this at this stage in my life; but how can I create dynamic crossfades in Kontakt?
Say I'm using a wind instrument from VSCO2 CE that I've mapped in Kontakt, and I'd like to use my modwheel for the standard old volume + velocity crossfade between two (or more) velocity layers. I've looked at some existing patches and read a few things online, but for some reason I'm just not getting anywhere. I get that you have to have a separate group for each layer and they all need to cover the whole velocity range, 0-127, so they are technically triggered simultaneously; but when I try it, it just plays both layers simultaneously and scales the volume. There has to be some other stuff going on that I'm not seeing; because the examples I've inspected don't look much more complicated than that. There's a place to assign a CC to the modwheel and a corresponding curve you can edit, but beyond that I'm not sure how to actually make the groups crossfade.
Edit: I figured out that it has to do with drawing in the envelope curve for the volume CC for each group.
My son will be attending a percussion class, so we bought him the required bell kit. The day after buying it, I came home to find that he and my daughter had created this duet with the piano and the bell kit. They called it Rainy Day and asked me to record it. My younger son wanted in on the action, so he is the announcer at the beginning.
Has anyone had any luck downloading the Solo Violin Legato from Performance Samples? It's simply not working for me. I have the download code and the latest version of Connect installed. But when I launch the program and hit Download, it just sits there forever not doing anything. My antivirus (Bitdefender) chugs away at 10%-15% CPU as if it's scanning and scanning, and the same thing happens if I switch over to Windows Defender.
When I look in my downloads folder, there is indeed a file named "Solo_Violin_Legato_Instruments.rar" there. But it's only 150kB in size, and looking at it in a text editor it turns out it's not actually a rar file at all, but an xml file with this content:
Code:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><Error><Code>MissingSignature</Code><Message>Missing Signature query parameter or cookie value</Message></Error>
So there's definitely something going wrong, but whether it's an error on their end or if my antivirus somehow is causing it I have no idea. If anyone here has managed to download the instrument, would you be willing to share it?
I've been in a 19th-century mood lately and I can really recommend The Alienist. Solid actors and characters and a very atmospheric setting. It's kind of like Sherlock Holmes meets CSI in 1800's America. The Limehouse Golem is a great twist on the Ripper mystery. And The Frankenstein Chronicles takes the Mary Shelley idea and runs wild with it (while weaving the lady in question into the story). Ironically, Sean Bean dies then comes back to life!
