07-19-2019, 10:18 PM
I've been digging through a lot of free woodwind samples lately and this has made me wonder:
Are clarinets more difficult to play in tune than other wind instruments?
The reason I'm asking is that the majority of clarinets I've tried have MAJOR tuning problems. And not as in some notes consistently being a few cents sharp or flat (which is easy enough to fix at the mapping stage), but as in the pitch wavering all over the place rendering the samples unusable. The VSCO2 CE clarinet is by far the best one while others, like the MTG clarinet from Freesound, is dreadful. Even the classic Maestro Clarinet has so many tuning issues it's barely worth trying to fix. Weird thing is I haven't really noticed this with other sampled reeds. I know that pitch is tied to air pressure in wind instruments so it might be a case of less skilled players being recorded, but still. Are clarinets more finicky than their woodwind cousins?
Are clarinets more difficult to play in tune than other wind instruments?
The reason I'm asking is that the majority of clarinets I've tried have MAJOR tuning problems. And not as in some notes consistently being a few cents sharp or flat (which is easy enough to fix at the mapping stage), but as in the pitch wavering all over the place rendering the samples unusable. The VSCO2 CE clarinet is by far the best one while others, like the MTG clarinet from Freesound, is dreadful. Even the classic Maestro Clarinet has so many tuning issues it's barely worth trying to fix. Weird thing is I haven't really noticed this with other sampled reeds. I know that pitch is tied to air pressure in wind instruments so it might be a case of less skilled players being recorded, but still. Are clarinets more finicky than their woodwind cousins?
