On 13/06/2005 23:04, Ben Kennedy wrote:
Just wanted to pipe up that last week I bit the bullet and ordered by copy. I'll be looking forward to what you come up with, Carl, and will be glad to help out how I can. I expect that this will provide impetus and a good real-world scenario with which to do some serious improvement on the drum kit editor (e.g. bulk import, multi-sample instruments for different velocities, etc).
Just got my copy of the DVDs; I expect it will take me some time to check out the basics of what's there. One thing I've been thinking about is that while it may be useful to have half-a-dozen or a dozen samples of different velocities spread evenly over the whole "velocity range" (from very soft to very hard), it may also be especially worth including extra samples concentrated around a "often-used velocity". For example .... Like, if you wanted to use 8 levels of velocity in your snare samples, you might occasionally use level 1 or level 8, but a lot of your composition might be using level 6. Of course, playing a single sample for level 6 all the time might start to sound unrealistic on playback, especially in rolls and fills where you'd start to get the "machine gun effect" of numerous identical samples repeated in quick succession. A given kind of snare hit in ns_kit7 might have a range of 30 or 40 samples at different velocities -- great if you're using e-drums but enough to be kinda overwhelming if they're all available through DB's UI! But you could pick out 8 samples of velocity levels spaced evenly over the range from hard to soft and then for your "level 6", pick 4 or so samples of very similar velocity to give some extra variation to "level 6". Thus, when you checked your snare in the DB song editor, you'd see a range of hits availble like: Sn1 Sn2 Sn3 Sn4 Sn5 Sn6a Sn6b Sn6c Sn6d Sn7 Sn8 That would give you a relatively manageable way of picking samples running the whole range from soft to hard, but make it easy to get more variation in your "most-often-used" velocity level. The apparent volume of the level 6 options wouldn't be that different, but they would be much less likely (I'm theorizing) to sound like a machine gun to the ear because they would be genuinely different hits. Cheers, Carl -- Carl Edlund Anderson mailto:cea@carlaz.com http://www.carlaz.com/