Hi there

Any one know how you get a long, soft tremolo (timps otr bass drum) lasting for say 8 bars?

All the examples I'm looking at seem to be a maximum of 4secs?

Cheers
Neil

Before the note ends, I'm triggering the note again. I mostly use the variations with release samples for that.

best
Herb

jbm ... true for wind instruments but for percussions you don't need two channels/tracks or staves. Percussionists are able to play tremolos several minutes (hours ? ) long ...

well, for the score oriented folks such as myself - dual tracks or retriggering is'nt an optimal solution - does'nt look right in the score. Loops would be the right way to go.

I have looped a couple of the Timp-samples - but its a tedious job to find the right loop points, zero crossings and matching the start- and end-levels.
So, Herb, are you're by any chance planning to do it sometime, in a not so distant future ?

best regards
Bjarne Kristiansen

Can't do that in Sonar.
Anyway - its not just for publishing I like to use scores. I prefer to do
most of my orientaion and editing via the score page in Sonar.
Also I don't think retriggering and layering soundwise is as good a solution as a perfect loop.

/Bjarne

There is something that works pretty well with strings, brass, i haven't tested it yet on timpani but it should work...Before triggering the first note, increase the release time and trigger a second note (before the first note ends) and so it will ... crossfade smoothly i think.