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in reply to: Upgrading to Protools 11 (Avid Protools) #47318
Looks like it’s not released yet. Probably end of this month at the earliest.
in reply to: SSD for library #47166For a sample playback machine, the SSD is way more difference for streaming samples than for the system. A second SSD won’t make much difference, but if you want to split it out, I would consider looking for a fairly cheap and small SSD (on the internal sata) and use that for the boot drive. Not a big difference for speed, but it would free up more space on the sample drive and save it for mostly just reading instead of having the constant system stuff going on all the time.
in reply to: Isn’t there Delay and Humanization default? #45611I like to put in a test passage and loop it in my sequencer and tweak it as it’s playing. You’ll want different settings for legato and shorts, but if you get something that feels good for spic, it’s probably a good starting point for the other shorts. Same for doing violin 1 first then starting with those settings for the other sections and tweaking if it needs it.
Slight pitch randomization is fun to play with too.
in reply to: Gertting the best Hard Drive perfromance. #32003Yeah, seemed like a no brainer even if there was some chance it didn’t even work.
I did have some issues at first, ended up taking the card and cables off then back on again and it was OK.
in reply to: Gertting the best Hard Drive perfromance. #32001I got my SATA III pci card. It does allow my c300 to load data over 300 megs per second (around what the max is supposed to be), before it peaked around 250 to 280. Not a huge difference for me but it’s nice to know that I can get faster speeds if I get another SSD down the road. But I doubt the extra speed makes much of a difference for sample playback beyond load times, but it does take out the SATA II limitation as a factor
This one was dirt cheap, it does have a limit of 500 megs instead of 600 because it’s only 1x pci. But a decent option for the price, for anyone considering an SSD that maxes out just under 500 (or over if you don’t mind getting max speed) it’s worth trying out.
in reply to: Gertting the best Hard Drive perfromance. #31994Anyone tried a SATA III pci card on a mac pro? I found a cheap one that’s supposed to work so I’ll probably get it and see if it makes a difference with my SSD drive.
in reply to: Convince me to upgrade to LASS full! #45179I know it’s always a stupid answer, but both upgrades are great ones. As far as CineBrass goes, I use the PRO part of the library way more than core. Frankly, I wouldn’t recommend to anyone just getting core, the pro part is really way more than half the library. I think the biggest mistake they made when they released it was how they set up the prices and bundle – should have split it with core being cheaper and pro more expensive (and more of a bundle discount for those who bought before the pro expansion was even announced). But that’s just quibbling, as a full package it’s fantastic.
And LASS, the full version is killer both for the divisis as well as the new version 2 features.
I don’t know if you’re on PC or mac but PLAY is a dog on the latter – there are just way too many good options on Kontakt to try and run much PLAY stuff on mac.
in reply to: ARC keyswitching turns on AA? #44801Doesn’t seem like it’s a midi issue, I’m seeing it all the time, even on really slow stuff.
I load up for example Vlas A Leg Sus NV-Vib in standalone Kontakt, no ARC. With AA off, legato is fine. I turn on AA and play a C, hold it, then hit the G above it, and it plays the slur up to G. Working fine.
But then if I start by playing the G, hold it then play the C below it, it just holds the G and doesn’t play the C at all. I can only get the C to play if I leave a gap (in which case there’s no legato obviously).
This happens on every downward interval I’ve tried, every legato instrument I’ve tried including trems, trills, legato sord. Really weird, seems like something is broken on my system.
in reply to: ARC keyswitching turns on AA? #44799Thanks, that gets it to stop turning on every time.
I’m still getting weird legato when AA is on, have you ever seen that? In general, when AA is on should single lines work about the same as when it’s off? Or is it a lot tweakier since it could interpret some things as chords?
I’d like to eventually try out AA with the legato patches, but so far I can’t get that combination working at all.
in reply to: So! What’s Next!! :) #44156BWW has announced they’ll be doing bass clarinet and contrabassoon. But not if those will be free updates or another purchase. And no mention of alto flute and bass flute, Eb clarinet, or any others.
in reply to: Kontakt Memory Server Question #44010I haven’t noticed a difference in performance either way but I always run with KMS on because I have it set to manual and it’s nice to not have to load samples as much when switching sessions. Also I tend to trust having more memory in KMS and less used in Logic although that may be pure superstition. But I’ve never seen any downside to always using it regardless of whether host is 32 or 64 bit.
in reply to: Where is LASS version no.? #41605Would it be possible to put the LASS version number somewhere where it can be seen? This has always been tricky with LASS (and many other Kontakt instruments).
in reply to: Which reverb do you use with Lass? #40595Breeze sounds nice but unfortunately no 64 bit version yet on mac so I rarely use it. I hope they get their act together, when I bought it they said they’d have a 64 bit version soon but that was months ago.
in reply to: *** LASS 2.0 UPDATE *** #38521Great stuff. Have you locked down pricing yet?
in reply to: Sordino / Full sharing legato samples? #38232Thanks for clearing that up, sorry for the misinformation.
in reply to: "Look Ahead" capability? #38223Do you mean Logic? That is a great idea, you only need low latency for tracks that are being played in, either audio or midi.
in reply to: "Look Ahead" capability? #38221@noiseboyuk wrote:
I’ve thought for years that look-ahead is a really interesting way forward. Steinberg would absolutely be the people to do it. No-one else has jumped on vst3 yet – although I think it has some great new features. A really intelligent implementation of look-ahead could be incredible though, it might force others to move away from VST2.
Absolutely. Obviously it wouldn’t work for real time playback, but with libraries like this most of the use is creating sequences. The whole need for things like keyswitches is based on the notion that the sequencer can’t look ahead into the future and see when a note ends…but when it comes to playback of existing midi data, there’s no reason the sequencer couldn’t do that. It would be amazing to have it automatically select the proper samples based on note length.
A couple VIs do that already (I believe Synful) but it requires putting a negative delay on your midi data. Seems like the functionality could be built into a sequencer, although it would probably have to become an open standard to get much developer support.
in reply to: Sordino / Full sharing legato samples? #38230@dedersen wrote:
I think I asked in the other, similar thread as well, but just to be clear; these ARE new legato recordings in LASS LS, right?
I thought they said elsewhere that the LS is all built from the original LASS recording sessions. It took a huge amount of time and effort to do all the legato editing and programming for LS.
in reply to: When is LASS 2.0 coming? #37599@Samadhi wrote:
I was recently thinking about upgrading from K4 to K5. I’m not a developer, neither I use the sampling tools which come with the software. I just use Kontakt for playing instruments. So I compared K5 and K5 Player characteristics and, considering that the library remains unchanged, I don’t feel the need to upgrade. It seems enough with k5 player. Correct me if I’m wrong.
Seems like you probably wouldn’t need it just for LASS. But I definitely want to get it just for the huge improvement in the time compression algorithm. It will make a huge difference for anything locked to tempo (loops, runs, etc).
in reply to: It sounds out of tune #38156Yes, definitely some notes (legato intervals?) that are too far out to be acceptable in the divisis. Some sound OK when all four layers are layered, some not.
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