So, having made a bunch of kit icons and stuff, I just ran into my first funky problem in trying to make a ns_kit7full dbkit. ns_kit7 has 48KHz/24bit samples, and Doggiebox politely pops up a box warning me that he only supports 44.1, and I should convert my sample :)
So, my question to Ben: Any plans to support sample rates other than 44.1 (such as, for example 48 :) ??
Failing that, can anyone recommend a good tool to decently batch- convert a _lot_ of WAV files? :)
Cheers, Carl
-- Carl Edlund Anderson http://www.carlaz.com/
Carl Edlund Anderson wrote at 6:43 PM (+0100) on 10/12/05:
So, having made a bunch of kit icons and stuff, I just ran into my first funky problem in trying to make a ns_kit7full dbkit. ns_kit7 has 48KHz/24bit samples, and Doggiebox politely pops up a box warning me that he only supports 44.1, and I should convert my sample :)
So, my question to Ben: Any plans to support sample rates other than 44.1 (such as, for example 48 :) ??
Crap. This goes to prove how little time I've put in to playing with ns_kit7 so far (the DVD case is still sitting patiently near the corner of my desk here).
This is clearly an important issue now. Thanks for bringing it to mind again...
-ben
On 11/11/2005 18:59, Ben Kennedy wrote:
Carl Edlund Anderson wrote at 6:43 PM (+0100) on 10/12/05:
So, having made a bunch of kit icons and stuff, I just ran into my first funky problem in trying to make a ns_kit7full dbkit. ns_kit7 has 48KHz/24bit samples, and Doggiebox politely pops up a box warning me that he only supports 44.1, and I should convert my sample :) So, my question to Ben: Any plans to support sample rates other than 44.1 (such as, for example 48 :) ??
Crap. This goes to prove how little time I've put in to playing with ns_kit7 so far (the DVD case is still sitting patiently near the corner of my desk here).
Well, clearly, I've only recently started trying to actually get the thing assembled. I have downsampled the files on my HD that I was planning on using -- the trick is now to make myself a manageable dbkit! I'm really keen to get some of that opening-by-degrees hi-hat action going on (as I do lot of rock stuff, I dig slightly open hats for general use :) But I've got to keep the number of samples down to a reasonable level, which is tricky since I reckon hats (along with snares and rides) are the sorts of things where having a wider variety of samples is most important.
For the first pass, I've decided that in general I'm assuming 16 levels of velocity available for each drum sound, though in practice I'm winding that back to 8 for many of the drums. Even for the likes of hats, it might be more practical to count 16 theoretical levels, but leave the lower velocity ranges less populated than the higher, more heavily used, range.
I'm still cranking out icons and tacking the bits together though! Haven't really got enough stuck together to try it out. (Not quite sure how best to handle hat openness graphically, either -- just going with little letters, as in the nskit filenames, at the moment.)
This is clearly an important issue now. Thanks for bringing it to mind again...
Roll on more Doggiebox! :)
Cheers, Carl
Carl Edlund Anderson wrote at 1:01 PM (+0000) on 11/15/05:
Well, clearly, I've only recently started trying to actually get the thing assembled. I have downsampled the files on my HD that I was planning on using -- the trick is now to make myself a manageable dbkit!
Yeah, eh. Well, now that I have my brand new dual-core G5 up and running and suddenly find myself with tens of gigabytes of extra space, I am *finally* copying the ns_kit7 DVD's to my HD as I type this! Hopefully I will be able to make myself useful in this regard soon.
For the first pass, I've decided that in general I'm assuming 16 levels of velocity available for each drum sound, though in practice I'm winding that back to 8 for many of the drums.
It will be really nice once Doggiebox supports automatic selection of samples based on the chosen velocity (per the right-click slider), won't it. ;)
-b
On 08/12/2005 17:17, Ben Kennedy wrote:
Yeah, eh. Well, now that I have my brand new dual-core G5 up and running and suddenly find myself with tens of gigabytes of extra space, I am *finally* copying the ns_kit7 DVD's to my HD as I type this! Hopefully I will be able to make myself useful in this regard soon.
Man, you'll need that 10s of gigabytes! :) I only copied carefully selected bits to the HD!
I seemed to sometimes bump into "skipping" and "dropout" trouble with bigger dbkits, including the ns_kit7free kits. I haven't really tried using my dbkit based on the full ns_kit7 in anger yet. (I'm still slowly chipping away at making little icons with different numbers to indicate velocity on them!)
On 08/12/2005 17:17, Ben Kennedy wrote:
Carl Edlund Anderson wrote at 1:01 PM (+0000) on 11/15/05:
For the first pass, I've decided that in general I'm assuming 16 levels of velocity available for each drum sound, though in practice I'm winding that back to 8 for many of the drums.
It will be really nice once Doggiebox supports automatic selection of samples based on the chosen velocity (per the right-click slider), won't it. ;)
Well, that would make putting together dbkits for ns_kit7full ... a relative snap! :)
Hmmm, how would people check what velocity they had set for a give hit using the slider? Only by right-clicking again to see what's there? I wonder if there's a clever way to display velocities for all the hits in a given section ... like a hot-key combo to pop up all the sliders to look at at once? That might look a bit funky in the UI, but something to do this would be handy.
Cheers, Carl
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