On Tue, 27 Oct 2009, francis keyes wrote: > I tried this setup. Connecting into Ardour is no problem but the levels are > wrong. The tracks are not clipping in Ardour but the waveforms are squared > off and clipping someplace else. I need to have the level in Ardour be > exactly the level of the sampled drum without having to guess or do it by > eye with the fader in Hydrogen.
The gain is set in several places. Any of them can cause clipping. Here they are in reverse order: Mixer: The main mixer will scale the signal from 0 to 1.5. When you move the fader, the status inducator (the blue widget that also says "Mixer" and "Instrument Rack") will tell you exactly what value you are currently at. You want it to be 1.00. Instrument Editor: On the instrument editor there is a gain knob. The current value is displayed beside it. You want it to say 1.00. Instrument ADSR: The envelope for each instrument affects the gain. Set Attack and Decay to 0, set Sustain to 1.00. Set release to the maximum value. Instrument resonance filter: Bypass the filter. It also affects volume. Layers Editor: Each instrument can have several layers. For EACH layer, there is a gain setting. You want it to say 1.00. The sample: It's possible that the sample itself is already clipped. Note velocity: The note velocity affects the gain. What is unity differs with each program you use. Hydrogen treats a 127 (decimal) as unity. Internally, Hydrogen stores velocity is a float from 0.0 to 1.0. If you have trouble setting things to exactly 1.0... get things as close as you can. Then save the file and (by hand) edit them all to be perfectly 1.0. Hope this helps, Gabriel ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Come build with us! The BlackBerry(R) Developer Conference in SF, CA is the only developer event you need to attend this year. Jumpstart your developing skills, take BlackBerry mobile applications to market and stay ahead of the curve. Join us from November 9 - 12, 2009. Register now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/devconference _______________________________________________ Hydrogen-users mailing list Hydrogen-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/hydrogen-users
