Sample library too big?
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- KVRist
- 401 posts since 4 May, 2004
Organizing your sample library is much better than deleting. I actually have redundant samples scattered around so that searching is easier for me. I've currently got about 50 gigs of samples and I also plan to expand it a bit.
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- Banned
- 237 posts since 7 Oct, 2004
I agree.TrekStar wrote:I also agree that the trend to monsterlibraries is exaggerated. on the one hand there is sure a lower limit that should not be passed when you have e.g. an orchester-library: if it's samplepool is simply too small it can't sound good.
on the other hand I'm sick of my two hd's which are packed full with libraries an it is hardly any space left...when I want to copy a dvd or so I have to look if the partition has enough space left.
not only that the software developpers expect from you to buy a nu computer for their perverted cpu-eating new vsti....now also the library developpers want you to buy an additional hd for each library.
and the second thing which disturbs me is the trend to monolith libraries which means that they are one pack and can't be deeper edited/reduced of the samples which you don't need. ...very user unfriendly that idea.
Take BFD for example which requires 9 GB of free hard disk space and each sample can have up to 127 different velocity layers.
Who, on this planet, would use 127 different velocity layers ?
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- KVRAF
- 3125 posts since 6 Dec, 2002 from Ljubljana/ Slovenia
a real human drummer maybelion_cub wrote:
Take BFD for example which requires 9 GB of free hard disk space and each sample can have up to 127 different velocity layers.
Who, on this planet, would use 127 different velocity layers ?
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- KVRAF
- 13444 posts since 14 Nov, 2000 from Hannover / Germany
Maybe a real drummer wouldn't use more than 127 velocities. But he/she would defenitely get out more than 127 different sounds out of whatever he/she is hitting.
There are 3 kinds of people:
Those who can do maths and those who can't.
Those who can do maths and those who can't.
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- "The" Jazz
- 4618 posts since 18 Aug, 2004 from California, United States
Yeah, I would actually prefer about 10 velocity layers, but then samples using left & right hand and on various areas of the drum.lion_cub wrote:I doubt even a real human drummer would. Just as an aside, I think it would be interesting to measure how many velocities a real drummer would use.
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- KVRist
- 352 posts since 5 Jul, 2004
....you called?
-real drummer here. Playing V-drums in the style of my regular acoustic kit means loads of different velocities and many more midi events per second than when programmed.... It would be literally impossible to program the midi in the same way with that much complexity ... I'm not saying I'm into all sorts of twiddley technique arsing about stuff, rather, it's just the way it works if you play the drums at all expressively.
Although BFD is 9GB I *think* it only goes up to 46 velocity layers.
HOWEVER, 'BFD Deluxe' which has just come out does have up to 127 velocity layers - and is 55GB. (yippee!)
As a drummer after the realism of a real kit, BFD is the only opton yet which comes close.
-real drummer here. Playing V-drums in the style of my regular acoustic kit means loads of different velocities and many more midi events per second than when programmed.... It would be literally impossible to program the midi in the same way with that much complexity ... I'm not saying I'm into all sorts of twiddley technique arsing about stuff, rather, it's just the way it works if you play the drums at all expressively.
Although BFD is 9GB I *think* it only goes up to 46 velocity layers.
HOWEVER, 'BFD Deluxe' which has just come out does have up to 127 velocity layers - and is 55GB. (yippee!)
As a drummer after the realism of a real kit, BFD is the only opton yet which comes close.