On 05 1 2004 at 9:18 pm -0500, Christoph wrote:

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Take a sampled sound of a shaker "shhhkk-shh". This sample was recorded at a particular tempo, let's say 144. The "shhhkk-shh" will work fine for a song with that or near 144 bpm. Now take it to a song that is 100 bpm. The "shhhkk-shh" will be too fast because the "-shh" comes too quickly on the downbeat.

Hmmm, that's another good point. Not quite the same but related and just as important nonetheless. This could open a can of worms though; how many parts would one want to configure in a sound? I wonder in how many cases this would be a practical concern that would not be better mitigated by simply devising and using two distinct samples ("shaker start", "shaker end").

-ben

I've added a tambourine sound to my version of the nskit which uses 2 separate up and down sounds (shaker start and shaker end) and a louder version of the up or emphasis and used this in a song. Seems to work ok with the slider cranked up to top speed and also with the slider down at the lowest setting. The kit, song (Xris) and kit and db are on my site if you want to see: http://www.cinnamondesign.co.uk/music/music.html Cheers Sion