Responsiveness and playability in modern orchestral sample libraries

[Paul Battersby]

(02-15-2018, 04:38 AM)Samulis Wrote: Cut out the attack and save it as a separate sample with a fade out on it, then map it to the same keys in a new group.

That's an interesting approach. I never thought of that.

(02-15-2018, 04:38 AM)Samulis Wrote: You can also do this trick with staccato samples [...] just attenuate the staccatos with volume= until they don't cause too much of an "accent" sound

That's the method I used going all the way back to enhancements I made to the original Sonatina Symphonic Orchestra before I started work on my own library. Seems to have worked fairly well.

[Samulis]

(02-15-2018, 12:51 PM)Paul Battersby Wrote:

(02-15-2018, 04:38 AM)Samulis Wrote: Cut out the attack and save it as a separate sample with a fade out on it, then map it to the same keys in a new group.

That's an interesting approach. I never thought of that.

That's why they pay me the big bucks.