Looped SSO!

[sig-ex]

I guess there’s no better place to announce this mod of SSO. Better 6 years late than never!

Here's an attempt at looping SSO. Also released as CC Sampling+ 1.0.

Demo at SoundCloud
https://soundcloud.com/sig-ex/sad-instru...rrangement

Download(s) here (so far):
    Musical Artifacts: https://musical-artifacts.com/artifacts/456

More info here: https://sig-ex.com/2017/03/12/sso-se-loo...struments/

I'm still waiting to get it uploaded elsewhere and demo clips are still to be moderated at freesound.org.

Just a heads up, some samples, especially solo and low pitched instruments, were challenging to loop. So some patience might be necessary.



Cheers!
sig-ex

[Otto Halmén]

(03-12-2017, 05:53 PM)sig-ex Wrote: Better 6 years late than never!

Well, there's more than one freeware lib out there now, but SSO still has something of a distinct sound, so I could imagine some people out there might still prefer it.

[peastman]

Quote:so I could imagine some people out there might still prefer it.

Me, for example!   SSO's wind section is still my favorite among the free libraries, and having a looped version of it could be really handy.  Thanks for creating this!

[Paul Battersby]

Looping all the SSO sustain samples is a major accomplishment. I can certainly understand the amount of hard work necessary to get that done. Good job!

[kneedeep]

This might be very helpful! I prefer SSO, too.

Will check it out.

[Mattias Westlund]

Wow, nice work! And you haven't lost your mind either? I'm impressed

[sig-ex]

Thanks everyone! :-)

I don't know how to do formatting for multiple quotes, so I just use "@" style:

@Otto, peastman & kneedeep,
Having used SSO for years, I also agree. SSO has its character, and perhaps it grew on many of us,  being what we have for free for a long time now.

@Paul
Thanks! A lot of trial and error (and caffeine & sugar... )
This might be useful advise to a fellow looper: Maybe obvious, but use the best headphones/speakers from the start! I made a mistake of using my default bassy consumer headphones, at first. Then later discovered with an ATH-M70x that there were clicks that I missed.
BTW, I attempted to copy your key switching style so that users might easily switch between libraries (VPO).

@Mattias
Thanks for creating SSO in the first place! I may have lost my mind a long time ago though. :-)

Cheers!

[Paul Battersby]

(03-13-2017, 07:41 PM)sig-ex Wrote: I attempted to copy your key switching style so that users might easily switch between libraries (VPO).

I find key switches essential. I had created some for SSO a few years ago and made them publicly available but I don't know how many people noticed.

[peastman]

Quote:I don't know how many people noticed.

I did!  They are, as you say, completely indispensable.  Especially after I figured out how to write a script in Logic Pro to convert articulation IDs to key switches, which makes them a lot more convenient to work with.

I wonder if this would be a good time to release SSO 2.0?  There've been a lot of enhancements to it released over the years, and it would be nice to bundle them all together in a single download.

[Michael Willis]

(03-15-2017, 04:27 AM)peastman Wrote: I wonder if this would be a good time to release SSO 2.0?

That's interesting, I consider VPO to be the successor to SSO. I'm still kind of new to using SFZ samples, and Paul started working on VPO soon after I started exploring the idea of using SFZ instruments, so I never ended up using SSO much.

I do admit that it has a different sound to it: SSO has some stage presence baked in, while VPO much more dry out of the box, and there are probably a lot of other nuances that I haven't picked up on.

It seems like there are plenty people who would appreciate an official version 2 of SSO, if somebody wants to own it. I'm guessing that Mattias has enough obligations right now that he doesn't need yet another project to manage.