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!
Hi all. I took up bigcat on the offer for Siedlaczek's COC and so downloaded Kontakt Player etc. Well, I'm having an issue, or perhaps a disagreement, with KP: it's an octave too high. I'm using it in Reaper, and a violin's C3 is sounding on the keyboard's C4, to use an illustrative example. The same holds true for all the other instruments so far as I can tell.
Please oh please, can anybody help me with this? I want my C4s to actually be C4s.
Edit: ...to ask. There's a character limit to the post titles, it seems
OK, now that we've got the clarinets discussion going, let's have a thread about things that you're supposed to know as a VO composer, but you're not 100% sure about.
So, let me start off with brass agility. You don't often hear horns and trombones doing fast or complex things, whereas trumpets are commonly used for pretty technical passages. So what gives? Is this a matter of range and instrument size/construction? Or is it more tradition and convention?
