12-18-2016, 11:44 PM
Just a heads up. You should know that these libs have their issues, but for $1... it might come in handy at some point
iLok software and account required though.
iLok software and account required though.
Get SONiVOX Orchestral Companion Strings for $1
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12-18-2016, 11:44 PM
Just a heads up. You should know that these libs have their issues, but for $1... it might come in handy at some point
iLok software and account required though.
12-20-2016, 05:38 AM
Anybody had any luck extracting the samples from it?
I purchased it in hopes of dumping the samples to disk and setting up some quick-and-dirty patches in Kontakt... -- Kurt
12-21-2016, 02:52 AM
(This post was last modified: 12-22-2016, 08:13 AM by Otto Halmén.
Edit Reason: On porting the SONiVOX samples
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I was going to take a look into that, but the download kept failing. I need to be able to optimize as needed (e.g. 16-bit samples, mono patches, bloat-free sampler), and I don't particularly fancy the idea of having PACE Anti-Piracy software on the system I use to make music.
If the samples are stored as PCM data in the files, raw data cutting is a bit faster than recording and bouncing the library note by note. If they're compressed using some sort of proprietary lossless encoding, I'm afraid I don't have the time (or possibly even the knowledge) to tackle the issue. EDIT: They're fully scrambled .wav-files. I learned that PACE provides content encryption, so it might just well be what SONiVOX used. I'm by no means the right guy to tackle PACE, a DRM so arcane that programs making use of it apparently need dedicated compiler software to be built. Note-by-note bouncing it is.
12-23-2016, 06:16 PM
I wonder if it's possible to come up with some generalized toolset for re-recording legally owned proprietary libraries to disc?
For instance, a set of midi files that covers all the notes at all the (appropriate) velocities that you could import into your DAW, hookup the necessary libraries, then dump the individual tracks to disc. If it were some known distance between notes (say 5 seconds length per sample regardless of articulation), it should be fairly easy to write a small executable that finds the start of the first sample, jumps ahead 5 seconds, cuts off that first sample to a file, jumps ahead another 5 seconds, cuts off the second sample to a file, etc, etc, etc. That would sure make generating the raw data a whole lot easier and let a person spend their time creating patches instead of fiddling with slicing-and-dicing... Although I haven't mucked about with it in several months, I'd still love to do something like that with the original Miroslav. I just love some of their woodwind samples and some of my initial tests in Kontakt with Big Bob's WIPS (TKT and Legato scripts) made them sound just shiny... - Kurt
12-23-2016, 09:57 PM
(This post was last modified: 12-23-2016, 10:30 PM by bigcat1969.)
You made me curious. One thing I found is that Audacity has a sound finder with lots of parameters. You can have it analyze a sound file with lots of notes and then bulk export.
My theory is that you could make a midi file playing every Xth note and save that from your DAW. Import this into Audacity and analtyze / bulk export. Finally pull these into Kontakt and as long as you put the first note on the right semitone you would have an instrument. This chap has created midi files for this type of thing... https://www.reddit.com/r/piano/comments/...ndividual/ I used this method to do a 1 velocity player, every note sampled, 4 octave piano very quickly with no extra editing or anything. http://www.mediafire.com/file/ts6b6pyyu7..._Piano.zip
12-26-2016, 06:16 PM
(This post was last modified: 12-26-2016, 06:18 PM by Mattias Westlund.)
I think the first course of action for getting the notes out of the plugin would be finding out at what intervals the notes are mapped (chromatic? minor 3rd's?). This, as well as any round-robin notes, should be possible to figure out from the wave file names with a little work. If enough people here are interested in this, maybe we could set up some kind of community effort? Person A handles the violins, person B the violas and so on. And then we share our findings here.
Sampling the release tails is probably more work than it's worth though (and personally I have no interest in keeping them anyway). |
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