Scott Bahling a écrit : Hi Scott,
Thanks for your advices! I've updated "buildNSKit7.pl" to take in account all needed layers: http://esaracco.free.fr/downloads/buildNSKit7.pl -> Hydrogen needs to be rebuilt with MAX_LAYERS to 70 instead of 16. Thanks again, Bye > On Tue, 2008-02-19 at 12:31 +0100, Emmanuel Saracco wrote: >> Scott Bahling a écrit : >> >>> Hi Emmanuel, >> Hi! >> >> [...] >> >>>> Just in case this NS Kit7 builder would be of some interest for some of >>>> you, you can download it here: >>>> >>>> http://esaracco.free.fr/downloads/buildNSKit7.pl >>> Cool. Well I already have my drumkits defined. But if I find time I will >>> try it out. I noticed that your script creates each instrument layer >>> covering the complete velocity range. <min>=0 <max>=1. Wouldn't you want >>> to scale each layer by velocity? Otherwise you will either hear all >>> layers at the same time, or only the first layer that H2 matches (can't >>> remember the logic in the sampler, but I think it is the later). I think >>> you will need to compile H2 with the MAX_LAYERS define increased. >> Yes, you're right. At first I was creating a lot of layers for each >> instruments, but it happens many time that NS Kit7 contains more than 16 >> layers. So, to not force any "buildNSKit7.pl" users to rebuild Hydrogen >> with a greater MAX_LAYERS value, I now just define one layer that use >> the greater NS Kit7 WAV file number. >> >> If needed I can update "buildNSKit7.pl" to act this way again, but are >> you really sure the max/min values of a Hydrogen layer is about >> velocity? > > Yes, the min and max values become the StartVelocity and EndVelocity > values of the layer objects. These are queried for a match based on the > velocity setting for the current note being rendered. Starting at layer > 0, the first matching layer that contains the note velocity within it's > Start/EndVelocity range is used. > >> And if so, is there any relation between NS Kit7 WAV file >> numbering and velocity (I thought it was more relative to gain)? > > The NSkit wav numbers are related to how hard the instrument was struck > when sampling. This is a velocity mapping and the gain difference is > just inherent. There is no direct relationship to H2 velocity. Just that > lower wav numbers are lower velocity. When I created my instruments, I > just scaled the velocity linear with the samples. So if there are 48 > layers, each layer would get a range of 1.0 / 48. Make sure that the min > value of a layer is equal to the max value of the former layer. > Otherwise depending on the velocity and humanization factor you can > experience dropped notes on playback (which is a cool effect BTW ;). > Even if one layer has a max of 0.25 and the next layer has a min at > 0.26, the sampler might have a note velocity of 0.255 and there will be > no layer match, and the note will not be played. > > To get the full benefit of the NSkit, you want to include the layers and > map them to velocity. Then add a little humanization to the velocity or > program the note velocities for effect, and you will get a very dynamic > sound. > > Even if you don't want to recompile H2, just grab 16 from the full range > of available layers and map them into instruments. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Hydrogen-users mailing list Hydrogen-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/hydrogen-users
