Yes it does sound very much like Artificial Intelligence. And yes the library could have costed a whole lot more, but it doesn't. Yes, short notes are more "staccato like" consistently, rather than "sustain like". Yes, the program is completely integrated with its own playback engine, and its own full orchestral sound library largely based on modeling and synthesis (please see the link in my signature) and gives more attack to, the shorter note (regardless of whether its made short by a dot, or being notated with short duration).jancivil wrote:You haven't answered my question. Why does reading ahead turn a 'staccato dot' into 'the right short note'? You mean it knows from context when to make different length staccatos? That sounds like Artificial Intelligence and for some reason I would expect to see that costing more. Or are short notes just 'more staccato-like' consistently*? Is the program integrated with the playback engine to some extent and gives more attack to, seeing the staccato dot?
I'm trying to explain it, my friend! Yes, it has something to do with the samples handling. No I am not reinventing the wheel, it's just that when a guy turned up with the first wheel it was so awesome you didn't believe him. Yes the dot has a largely fixed meaning both for the machine and the musician, NotePerformer does what the musician would do (stretches the sound appropriately, in sample library terms) while your sample library plays a fixed-length sound. Yes people use the piano roll, successfully, but if you write music for full orchestra, a musical notation program can be a much faster and enjoyable tool to work with. After all, musical notation was invented for the purpose. MIDI was invented for communicating keyboard controller actions.jancivil wrote:Well, it may be 'general' but I'm using something that specifically addresses it. "True staccato" indicates something to do with the samples handling, doesn't it. You aren't reinventing the wheel here.
"deficits of MIDI playback of a musical score"; yeah, 'staccato dot' in real life is interpreted by musicians with a certain knowledge of style, a lot of things, but a dot on a score in a notation program has a literal, fixed meaning to the machine. SO, people use the piano roll and attend to actual note duration and pick actual articulations in the libraries. You're making a claim that 'reading ahead' addresses the deficits of using a notation program as a playback engine but you won't say what it does.
If you are happy shrinking and stretching your samples one-by-one in Kontakt, you should continue to do so. Or you can use NotePerformer where you don't need to because, yes indeed, it does all this for you automatically. It cannot do it to third party sample libraries, obviously, but using its own sounds.jancivil wrote:If it is really a staccato, I put a keyswitch in front of the note. The actual behavior of the player with the instrument, for instance the bow pressure and release is just a different articulation than, there are different types of samples used for a reason here. Short staccato, medium staccato, long staccato, short portato... And I can shrink or stretch these if I get so picky, and deal with the release characteristic, and more.
I know this program doesn't address that so me posing this is rhetorical.
I don't work in marketing. I'm just sounding Swedish.jancivil wrote:*If you're saying 'Sibelius' handling of short notes is deficient' per se, that's one thing, but 'MIDI playback' is a WYSIWYG thing and you're saying the machine 'gets' more by seeing more/this reading ahead.
I'm going to guess you work in marketing, but your lingo here is not very meaningful to me.
I'm not sure how to explain this more clearly! Did you listen to our audio demos?