(04-25-2018, 05:10 AM)peastman Wrote: If you really want, I can make a version of the harpsichords with the releases at full volume. But frankly, I can't imagine anyone ever wanting to use them. I've attached the Italian harpsichord so you can hear what it sounds like. There's always a balance between trying to recreate a real instrument as accurately as possible, and trying to create the best possible electronic instrument for people to use in their own music. I lean more toward the latter than the former.
Quote:Either Kawai - Legacy is really loud or (new) Kawai is very quiet.
The legacy one is really loud. I can bring it down a bit. And I can get the other fixes to you tomorrow too.
Just pushed the new samples! I just need to do a bit of general file renaming and then I will push a 0.2.2 update that will be good for you to work off of. Hopefully by 0.2.5 all the file renaming will be done.
- Added Wine Glasses, Kalimba (Tanzania), Kalimba (Kenya), mbira dzaVadzimu Nyamaropa, mbira Mavembe/Gadanga, Nyunga Nyunga, Balafon, and Xylophone soft and hard mallets.
EDIT: I do want to note that the plucked idiophones (lamellophones)- kalimbas, mbiras, nyunga nyunga, etc. all have the keys listed (k1, k2, k3, etc.). It is not uncommon to map two keys to the same note, but on opposite sides of the instrument. While these can be treated as RR for a chromatic interpretation, the key numbers can be used to map the original tuning/scale of the instrument to the keyboard along, say, the white keys (e.g. k1=36, k2=38, k3=40, k4=41, etc.) (note that the tuning is not necessarily western, and while I do not suggest tuning it, I leave that decision up to you).
In the case of the harpsichords, anyone who has ever played a real harpsichord or is using it for a performance will want the releases just like in real life. Actually, I can't really imagine a case where someone would want the releases to not sound right except perhaps for synthy electronic music... in which case sawtooth waves or whatever are the way to go.
This is the English harpsi sample set (virtual) with no modifications, i.e. what it sounds like in real life-
https://instaud.io/PUD
A live example on another (forgive ol' fumbly-keys here). That "thump" at the end is just what harpsichords do in real life-
https://instaud.io/VU8
If it really bugs someone, then they can always go and turn off the release layer. That's my philosophy with this freeware- just get it sounding as close to the real thing as I can, and if someone wants to come in and process the samples or do whatever, then that's up to them. That's why all the samples are right there.
There are some instruments out there which are "acquired tastes" and take time to develop an appreciation for, often because they act or sound alien compared to other instruments. Many folk/non-western instruments have very complex overtones or use buzzing/rattling sounds which appear very odd to us, used to our pure tone instruments, but after listening to a lot of those sorts of instruments lately, I have come to appreciate that buzzing and complexity. One of the harpsichords has releases almost as loud as the attacks, but I have come to appreciate that behavior and it doesn't bother me in the slightest.
One quick observation I've had... overall the instruments seem a bit on the quiet side. I normally listen to music while I work on the sample managing stuff (nothing too compressed), and every time I want to play the instruments, I have to pause the music, turn up my headphones a fair bit, then play the instrument- even with full volume in the ARIA mixer. I think the script is lowballing the volume setting a bit.
Doodling around with English Harpsi, I managed to get a good sound with ampeg_release in the normal at 0.35 (since the release has no actual pitch content, it needs a bit of pitch content to sound right). Maybe something to change in the script? Not sure if that helps at all.
Sample library developer, composer, and amateur organologist at Versilian Studios.
