Just bought Spotlight, really really love the sound of it in general, but I do notice some kind of sonic artifacts in the upper ranges of all the instruments. My guess is that it's frequency scaling of single samples over multiple notes, which for some reason is especially obvious there. Some of the more "noise"-like components of the sound change pitch in a pretty unnatural way when you play across different keys. It's especially noticeable on solo instruments, much less in sections.
Is anyone else noticing anything like this? Any tips on minimizing it?
Don't get me wrong, I still love the library, it totally blows away everything else I have in this space, in a bunch of ways, and is a great buy, especially now. Just making sure I have a handle on getting the best out of it.
Sonic artifiacts in upper range of Spotlight instruments
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- KVRist
- 58 posts since 15 Sep, 2012 from Manitoba, Canada
I looked into it on my machine on your first post and heard nothing unusual in the high registers. If you play my 'Romanze' track on SC it ends quite high in the solo violin. Do you hear it there?
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- KVRian
- Topic Starter
- 1063 posts since 28 Dec, 2012 from Boston area
Interesting, thanks for the feedback.
No I don't hear anything weird on that high stuff at the end of Romanze, using some medium crappy USB headphones and laptop built-in audio here at work, but the violin is mixed in with other instruments that might cover it up some. I'll check again at home tonight using my AKGs and the Focusrite 2i2 I use for messing around, which is where I heard it originally.
My original thought when I first heard it was something in the library, but maybe it's the playback. Haven't heard it with other material, but high solo strings are a really different signal than most others.
Also could be a quality setting in Kontakt or Studio One. I'm new to both, but I think they both have something like that, will investigate.
Thanks again.
No I don't hear anything weird on that high stuff at the end of Romanze, using some medium crappy USB headphones and laptop built-in audio here at work, but the violin is mixed in with other instruments that might cover it up some. I'll check again at home tonight using my AKGs and the Focusrite 2i2 I use for messing around, which is where I heard it originally.
My original thought when I first heard it was something in the library, but maybe it's the playback. Haven't heard it with other material, but high solo strings are a really different signal than most others.
Also could be a quality setting in Kontakt or Studio One. I'm new to both, but I think they both have something like that, will investigate.
Thanks again.
