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PianoPete · Post by **PianoPete** » Fri Feb 17, 2006 3:23 am

I'm having a few 'issues' with colossus on receptor. Firstly the pianos and organs produce a crackling or popping noise at times. It happens mostly when I play louder things like two handed chords at full velocity. I bumbed the buffer up to 256 but it still happens. I have 1.25 ram on the receptor.
Secondly the polyphony is 32 for the pianos. If I hold the sustain pedal and play enough notes the polyphony becomes full and no further notes will sound because it is sustaining the old notes (even though you cant really even hear them anymore). How can I make it so the new notes take priority over the old notes so I can play endlessly with the pedal down?
Finally how do I adjust the velocitiy sensitivity for the colossus Pianos?

I've looked for the Colossus manual but have yet to find it

PianoPete · Post by **PianoPete** » Sat Feb 18, 2006 8:27 pm

Anyone? The crackling and sustain pedal/note priority issues make it unuseable for me...please help. I need to get it up and running for my gigs.

(Figured out the Velocity sensitivity)
(Found the Colossus manual...nothing in it but a list of sounds)

PhilAiken · Post by **PhilAiken** » Sat Feb 18, 2006 8:55 pm

I don't have colossus....but the crackling sounds like you are having gain structure problems. You may be overloading either in the Colossus player, the individual multi channel or the main out. Try turning them down in that order and see if the crackling stops.
If I am not mistaken, Colossus is based on Kontakt, no? If so, there is likely a setting for note stealing method.

PianoPete · Post by **PianoPete** » Sun Feb 19, 2006 10:43 pm

Thanks for the help. You were right about the gain and it no longer distorts. Still haven't found the answer to the note stealing issue though. It certainly isn't in the manual.

Hybernation · Post by **Hybernation** » Sun Feb 19, 2006 11:41 pm

PianoPete wrote:Thanks for the help. You were right about the gain and it no longer distorts. Still haven't found the answer to the note stealing issue though. It certainly isn't in the manual.

The "Kompakt" instrument is fairly limited, but why not just bump the polyphony on the piano part up to 64 or higher? Surprisingly, it does not use that much more CPU and it should make your audible "note-stealing" effect go away (or lessen).

PianoPete · Post by **PianoPete** » Mon Feb 20, 2006 4:04 am

I bumped up the polyphony already. That's not the real problem though...it's the note priority/stealing that needs to be addressed. I need to be able to play endlessy with the sustain pedal down. I can't do gigs worrying if the next note i press will be there for me.

Bryan@MuseResearch · Post by **Bryan@MuseResearch** » Wed Feb 22, 2006 7:22 am

Have you asked East West about this? I'm not very familiar with the rip-off algorithms of the Kompakt engine... sorry I can't me more helpful.

PianoPete · Post by **PianoPete** » Wed Feb 22, 2006 7:26 pm

Yes I emailed them and they helped me thank you. Under Options:DFD settings:Expert: you have to raise the reserved voices to 248 then set the polyphony below 248 for note stealing to work properly.

Bryan@MuseResearch · Post by **Bryan@MuseResearch** » Wed Feb 22, 2006 7:41 pm

That is very interesting, and it probably applies to all of the NI engined sample players. Thanks doing this and then sharing it; that's pretty important info.

Cheers

B

PhilAiken · Post by **PhilAiken** » Thu Feb 23, 2006 12:11 am

What he said!

PianoPete · Post by **PianoPete** » Thu Feb 23, 2006 6:22 am

Thanks to Sam Fischmann at East West Soundsonline tech support. Not only did he email me but he answered my post at their forums all in less than 24 hours

PS- You Muse guys have been great too...

Bryan@MuseResearch · Post by **Bryan@MuseResearch** » Thu Feb 23, 2006 5:14 pm

Well thank you. The East West guys are great, I agree.

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