The demos on line are outstanding! They make me never want to hear another orchestral library again. The degree of realism is spectacular - every single demo sounds like it's played by a real group of players or solo instrumentalist.
That leads me to ask - how hard was it to create these demos? Did each of these short vignettes require hours of labor in switching samples and getting the articulations right? Or is the key switching and velocity crossfading set up well enough so that these instruments can really be played realistically from the keyboard?
On the trumpet ensemble demo I can kinda hear that there are several different samples going on. The initial note, the runs and the repeated notes each sound like different key switches. Plus the pianissimo section from :12-:20 sounds like a different, but well matched sample. Is it easy to switch between these samples? Also, is the crescendo at the end of this piece easy to do? Is it achieved through velocity crossfading, or midi volume changes or both?
On the piccolo trumpet and flute examples, which sound so effortless that they remind me of someone warming up in a practice room, were these played as quickly and fluidly like they sound? I suspect it didn't take 30 seconds to make that demo.. but was it a matter of simply playing it through and then switching the right samples for each phrase after the fact, or was each phrase played separately with different key switches?
I'm especially interested in the runs and the trills. Do the patches run in mono/legato mode? In the piccolo trumpet there are both legato and tongued runs - are those achieved through either legato or staccato playing, or are they separate samples? Is the flute trill a separate a separate sample or is the patch just programmed well enough so that when you trill it sounds that good?
Thanks,
Steve
That leads me to ask - how hard was it to create these demos? Did each of these short vignettes require hours of labor in switching samples and getting the articulations right? Or is the key switching and velocity crossfading set up well enough so that these instruments can really be played realistically from the keyboard?
On the trumpet ensemble demo I can kinda hear that there are several different samples going on. The initial note, the runs and the repeated notes each sound like different key switches. Plus the pianissimo section from :12-:20 sounds like a different, but well matched sample. Is it easy to switch between these samples? Also, is the crescendo at the end of this piece easy to do? Is it achieved through velocity crossfading, or midi volume changes or both?
On the piccolo trumpet and flute examples, which sound so effortless that they remind me of someone warming up in a practice room, were these played as quickly and fluidly like they sound? I suspect it didn't take 30 seconds to make that demo.. but was it a matter of simply playing it through and then switching the right samples for each phrase after the fact, or was each phrase played separately with different key switches?
I'm especially interested in the runs and the trills. Do the patches run in mono/legato mode? In the piccolo trumpet there are both legato and tongued runs - are those achieved through either legato or staccato playing, or are they separate samples? Is the flute trill a separate a separate sample or is the patch just programmed well enough so that when you trill it sounds that good?
Thanks,
Steve
