Hi all
This is a problem within the Kontackt player and Mac -- I suggest you go to Northern Sounds website northernsounds.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=39
Much has been suggested -- I run G5 1.6 and 3 gig ram -- lots of crackles -- in fact finally hit a wall and have simplified sections in order that the play properly -- cymbal rolls kill -- KS generally seems a problem. Others at 1.8 ghz still crackle.
One thing - most (all of mine in fact) disappear (do not appear) when recorded via the Kontackt player record function. Garritan himself suggests turning CPU quality (Ambience reverb section) down. I eventually found that unsatisfactory -- strings got rusty to my ear -- I think it was due to this but knowledge seems to be in short supply and subjective.
Some call the sounds crackles -- some pops -- are they the same? Personally, it seems more like clipping. Reduce polyphony on the instruments -- 1st vlns. load at 32 note polyphony -- to little polyphony and sound is affected -- although it doesn't correlate to 12 strings versus 32 kind of thing -- but maybe it does --
Do you need 32 notes for your piano? If not, cut it back.
I've yet to write this up at the site but the wall I hit surmounted the crackle (recorded version) but distorted rhythms -- all weekend I've been working around it -- to see how close I could get to what I really wanted -- finally I just cut the cymbal entirely and what was to be some great crashing tympani rolls are tapped out at the sixteenth. Definitely anticlimactic!
There's more suggestions at the site -- kill all computer functions operating underneath -- Sleep/Airport et al --
Jerry
On 1-Jan-05, at 11:44 AM, David Froom wrote:
Hello,
I hope to tap some wisdom about dealing with Garritan Personal Orchestra. I
just got it and have been fooling around with it. It is really fine --
better at orchestral instruments than Reason (which itself is rather good).
And relatively easy to learn.
However, I am having some problems getting it to work without making crackling sounds, which, I suspect, are memory/processor issues.
I am on a Mac, using GPO within Digital Performer. It works rather well, by
the way, within Finale, especially with the new version of Finale having an
"optimize for GPO" setting (which reassigns some velocity/continuous control
data). There are also some issues with GPO and its use of CC #64 for tenuto
-- which means it can't be used for sustain on piano.
GPO recommends at least 1GB of RAM. I have 1.5 GB. They ask for a minimum
of a G4 733 MHz processor. I have a G4 1.33 MHz.
GPO's stand alone player is rather useless for me, with only one instrument
at a time, and no sequencing. Might be great for live playing, but I don't
do that. But they offer a Digital Performer plug-in, and also a VST plugin,
and a studio player for use within Finale.
For a few chamber situations I have tried it in, it works very well. I am
working right now on something with saxophone, so I am using a good
saxophone patch within Reason, and using GPO for the other two instruments
(piano and bassoon), running the whole thing with Digital Performer. No
problems.
To test GPO, though, I am trying to put into DP Beethoven's 3rd symphony
(Scherzo). Unless I run it dry, without any reverb, I get processor/ram
crackles. It doesn't fail, but it just makes awful crackling sounds during
the fuller sections. I have checked some of the GPO forums, and I hear this
is a problem even with faster G5s and 2GB+ of memory. I have tried some
recommended tricks -- reducing polyphony, simplifying the orchestra. I have
tried bypassing GPO's "ambience" plugin (nice sound, but seems to be a huge
memory hog), using Apple's (inferior) AU reverb plugin instead. I also
tried messing with DP's hardware configuration settings (these are very
confusing to me, but I think I have good settings).
Are there any GPO-on-a-Mac experts out there who might be able to help me
get more performance out of GPO right now, especially for orchestral things?
Maybe we Mac folks need to wait until we can all have 2-3 MHz dual processor
G5s with 3-4 GB of RAM? Or hope that GPO comes up with a better way of
managing its demands, especially on a Mac?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
David Froom
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