03-25-2018, 02:59 PM
(03-25-2018, 01:09 AM)Samulis Wrote: So no, you have to manually figure out where the original samples are. I don't think there's a software in the world that could reliably do that task to be honest. You can make a good guess, but there's no 'tag' to know unless you understand exactly how the sampler functions.
…so long as you don't have tight RAM limitations, there's not really any downside to just leaving it over-sampled at wholetone (every other halfstep) or chromatic, especially if you're just recording one or two velocities for a few seconds each.
Well I just like the idea of having the most efficient files possible, and if I "oversample" the files might be three times bigger than necessary. (And possibly far more if I "oversample" the velocities too.)
I'm not saying it would be easy, but I'm sure it must be possible for software to detect where the original samples lie. Just a matter of comparing the waveforms, although I'm sure there's more to it than that in practice.
(03-25-2018, 01:09 AM)Samulis Wrote: Even the cheapest of these 'entry level' professional devices is leagues better than the majority of consumer sound cards in terms of signal-to-noise ratios, linearity, clock accuracy, and preamp performance. While these don't matter as much recording from line signals, if you ever want to record yourself talking into a mic or playing an instrument live, any of these will make a significant difference over what's on your motherboard, not to mention let you use XLR-cable microphones, including powered condenser microphones.
First of all, thanks for the sound card recommendations.
Bearing in mind I know nothing about sound cards... When you say that even entry-level "professional devices" are leagues ahead of consumer sound cards, are you talking specifically about brands like Focusrite, Behringer, Presonus, Steinberg, Tascam, Mackie, and M-Audio? Truth be told, I woudln't know any of these brand names apart from a consumer-grade one.
You mention recording. But that isn't something I do. I don't sing or play an instrument. All my music is on the keyboard, and now in the DAW. So who knows, maybe a consumer-grade sound card would suffice? I'm definitely looking for low-budget options.
(03-25-2018, 01:02 PM)Mattias Westlund Wrote:(03-24-2018, 11:58 PM)Lee B. James Wrote: Thanks, Michael. If I've understood you correctly, then that is great news! I am new to DAWs and VSTis. To begin with, I tried adjusting the decay of notes the conventional way but it didn't work, I soon found that I could hardly control notes at all other than simple things like sustain. I did a bit of Googling and what I read seemed to say that VSTis aren't flexible enough to let you change note decays. So if it can be done with MIDI CC events then that's great, because to me it's really important to have fine control over every note.
I'm not sure where you read that or what virtual instruments you have tried but VSTi's can be anything from pure "preset players" with hardly any adjustable parameters beyond volume and panning, to fully featured monster synths that let you tweak things far beyond what you can even in hardware. Saying "VSTis aren't flexible enough to let you change note decays" could not be farther from the truth.
Thanks, Mattias. I hope it doesn't come across as though I don't like VSTis. I think VSTis are fantastic, and I'm very happily building a collection of them. My only problem with them has been the (apparent) lack of control between DAW and VSTi, which I'm still figuring out.
VSTis are probably more flexible than I'm giving them credit for, and I could be using them wrong (it's early days for me) but all I know right now is that I can't dynamically adjust the volume of notes with any VSTi I've tried - I can only specify the starting volume, but once that note begins playing I can't get that volume to change without changing the master volume of the entire VSTi. It seems that in order to do this I'm going to need to send MIDI CC commands to the VSTi, which I'll go away and figure out how to do in my DAW. This isn't really anyone else's problem!