EXS 24 Logic Sampler Users Group

Per Larsson [mailto:per@...] :
>we have developed our recorded system some more 
>and our latest project (under developing) has 93(!) 
>samples/recorded note. 31 pedal up/31 pedal 
>down and 31 releasesamples....

(2007. After one week of downloading on his gigabit-broadband connection
Mr. Smith started organizing the material on his new FW RAID, while his
partner was halfway the manual of the freebie LogicPro9 which came with
the Triple G6. In 3 days they plan to be up and running. The can hardly
wait to use the 32-bit Behringer Young Chang Concert Grand sampled in
128 velocities for their new childrens' Xmas song album.)

Okay, exaggerated, but is this really how you sample guys see the
future? I guess I will bail out then. I'm already struggling with my 1
GB piano, how beautiful it may sound. I am a composer, not a storage
engineering. I need (RAM) space for a lot of other instruments too. 

If you want to help people like me, then focus on musicality.
Find a solution for the sound of the repeated note while the damper
stays up. 
Don't use a wide stereo image so close on the strings. I just sounds
plain ridiculous. Apply a little just to let the sound breathe. You
don't ask a violin player to walk to the right when playing high notes
and to the right when playing low, do you? Some sampled piano's are just
like that. They put me off big time.
Make sure that the chance that a sample is triggered twice is virtual
nill. This doesn't necessarily mean that you need so much samples. Use
the multitude of samples cleverly, with more detail in the region C2 -
C5 en velocity range 40 - 90. Not in the extremes of the performance
spectrum, they just eat RAM and disk space serving little.
This bothers me much more than having 31 releasesamples per note.
Imagine that...

Anyway, enough ranting, this is not at all to discourage you, but I hope
you and all other sample makers will keep things in perspective. Don't
forget musicality, while working on accuracy.

Cheers,
Herbert Boland

www.herbertboland.nl .:. Composer and Sound Designer .:.
www.zepmusic.com  .:. Open Songwriters Network .:.