01-08-2021, 04:16 AM
(01-07-2021, 05:47 AM)Mattias Westlund Wrote: I definitely know the problem you describe, and yes, it's relatively common in older libraries. It still happens, though: IIRC there are some samples in Miroslav 2 that sound completely wonky in places, like the players suddenly moved off to the side for one or two notes. It's incredibly annoying and it's hard to say what the cause may be. I guess it might be a recording issue. Placing mics and players EXACTLY in the same spot between two different sessions is virtually impossible, and even slight discrepancies become much more pronounced when recording in stereo. Maybe they went back to re-record some bad notes and weren't able to set things up exactly right the second time, perhaps due to time or budget constraints. But who knows.
I'm not super familiar with the editing capabilities of Kontakt yet, but if it's possible to perform edits to the samples, maybe you could just go in and attenuate the offending channel until the sample matches up with the rest?
All of which makes perfect sense, really. I'd like to say, "Yeah, but how come they didn't fix it before releasing it!?" But I know that sometimes deadlines and whatnot simply make that impossible. It's a bummer for people who don't have the editing capabilities, though (Kontakt Player users, for instance). Can you edit Miro?
I think that's the best way to go about it, r.e., attenuating the offending channel. Kontakt's individual zone pan function appears to be a stereo balance (don't quote me on that yet). So it seems to be just what one would need to address the issue. It's just that it isn't always a matter of one or two samples; I was surprised by how all-over-the-place the Westgate clarinet is. I spent some time trying to fix it up, but I realized it's probably better to wait for it to manifest in practice and then dive in to correct it. Now that I know how to rectify it, it's not weighing on my mind as much. My theory is that, over time, I'll eventually weed out and correct all the issues.
