Am Thu, 12 Mar 2009 08:43:33 +0000 schrieb Sebastian Moors <[email protected]>:
> > On Wed, 11 Mar 2009 22:47:44 -0500, "Gabriel M. Beddingfield" > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Hi guys, > > > > I was working on the manual section for Instrument layers, and I hit a > > snag: I > > don't understand how to make it work. No matter what velocity settings I > > > choose... no matter what gain settings I choose... all I can get to sound > > is > > layer 1. > > > > Can someone shed some light on this for me? > > > > -gabriel > > Hi Gabriel! > > The easiest way is to use the automatic velocity setting with the soundfile > browser. Just select some files (by holding ctrl down and clicking them) > and check the "automatic-vel." checkbox. Then import them. If they are in > inserted in the wrong order (the loudest sample is at bottom) then you have > to click them (while selecting) in the reversed order. > > The other way: Load one sample in the first slot. Then go with the cursor > to the left edge of the box. The cursor should change into a cursor with 2 > arrows - this indicates that you can resize the layer (or to be more exact, > the velocity range) now. If the first row is filled from the left to the > right edge it means that it will play just the first sample. > > Now you can load a second layer. Just resize it as you did with layer1, but > in a way that it covers the velocity range which is not covered by layer1. > Then you're first 2-layerd instrument is ready to go :) > - Sebastian > here some tips to generate good working multilayer stuff. 1. don't manage the volume into the sample himself. the best is to use samples with maximum depth. e.g. max peak -6db, because hydrogen manage the sample volume by the note velocity and will play the sample which is in this velocity range with the given note velocity volume. so if you also mange the volume in sample the velocity curve is a bit unusable (abrupt). i think on this place happens a lot of operating errors. 2. remove all dc offset from samples and/or add a well balanced high pass. this reduce the total nerving pop and plop sounds at sample end. a bit the same than the release problem. dc offset is not 0 and produce every time jump to zero plop at sample-end. this sounds mostly really bad. also you can lost sample depth in main mix. if e.g. dc offset will sum by playing together a lot of samples with the same dc offset. 3. be careful with the instrument gain. hydrogen tends to override the mix. particularly with fast and short transients. which often used in electronic samples e.g. kick with a really hard and high first halfshaft at the sample beginning. this produce often clippings in the main mix output. if you add to much sample gain sometimes you confused with the mixer volumes. all sliders are at very low position but the main mix output tends although to override. the h2 fx routing don't allow to mange this nice with limiters, compressors or transient designers. i am sure you know this .-). i only write this to remember the problems, and perhaps, if you already work on this chapter to maybe include this in few easy words into the manual. wolke ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Apps built with the Adobe(R) Flex(R) framework and Flex Builder(TM) are powering Web 2.0 with engaging, cross-platform capabilities. Quickly and easily build your RIAs with Flex Builder, the Eclipse(TM)based development software that enables intelligent coding and step-through debugging. Download the free 60 day trial. http://p.sf.net/sfu/www-adobe-com _______________________________________________ Hydrogen-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/hydrogen-devel
