I have original B4 on the Reeceptor, works fine and sounds right, but doesn't have the control I needed, so I upgradedto B4 II. Problem is, now I get thick, dense beating when I play complex chords, and it sounds terrible.
Anyone else have this issue? Know a solution?
B4 version II - major beating - anyone else?
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- KVRian
- 524 posts since 25 Aug, 2005
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- KVRian
- Topic Starter
- 524 posts since 25 Aug, 2005
I have tried this now on my PC as well. No trace of the beating through PC speakers w/limited bottom end, but sounds normal. I imported the registrations/patches from the B4 original version, could this be where it started?
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- KVRist
- 309 posts since 11 Sep, 2005 from Virginia
I don't know how the Receptor's disk struture works, but if you were on a PC I would say that your disk is fragmented. I would recommend that you delete the B4II install, defrag the disk and install it again.thesoundsmith wrote:I have original B4 on the Reeceptor, works fine and sounds right, but doesn't have the control I needed, so I upgradedto B4 II. Problem is, now I get thick, dense beating when I play complex chords, and it sounds terrible.
Anyone else have this issue? Know a solution?
I am curious to see what Muse people say about this?
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- KVRian
- 571 posts since 14 Oct, 2004 from UK
Fragmentation shouldn't be an issue with the ext3 file format.
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- KVRian
- Topic Starter
- 524 posts since 25 Aug, 2005
No - I found the problem. My Voce controller was switching the bass rotor speed to fastest possible speed. A mis-mapped controller that was hidden beind the gui display, when I switched to the other view, there it was. Sounds great now.
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- KVRist
- 387 posts since 24 Aug, 2004
My Receptor is in transit back from getting repaired, but I had a B4II problem that I kinda sorta pinned down before sending it in, and I thought I'd bring it up here.
A range of keys in the upper end of the keyboard (I'd report the exact range if I had my receptor handy) are noticably louder than the notes higher or lower than them. This is both by ear, and by meter readings.
This is with mutiple or only one drawbar out. It is also not normal "foldback" or anything like that. I'm fairly Hammond savvy - own a few - and also have the original B4 which does not have this problem.
I have verified that this occurs when the Leslie and cabinet simulations are off, and it seems to be a raw drawbar tone thing. I verified that it is not the tonewheel model - tried all the obvious ones. It could very well be that there is an obscure setting I need to track down. B4 original played through the B4II FX doesn't have this issue either.
Anyone notice anything similar?
Could it be Receptor specific? Intuition says no, but you never know.....
A range of keys in the upper end of the keyboard (I'd report the exact range if I had my receptor handy) are noticably louder than the notes higher or lower than them. This is both by ear, and by meter readings.
This is with mutiple or only one drawbar out. It is also not normal "foldback" or anything like that. I'm fairly Hammond savvy - own a few - and also have the original B4 which does not have this problem.
I have verified that this occurs when the Leslie and cabinet simulations are off, and it seems to be a raw drawbar tone thing. I verified that it is not the tonewheel model - tried all the obvious ones. It could very well be that there is an obscure setting I need to track down. B4 original played through the B4II FX doesn't have this issue either.
Anyone notice anything similar?
Could it be Receptor specific? Intuition says no, but you never know.....
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- KVRian
- 576 posts since 5 May, 2005 from Canada
I think it's really a 'B4 thing'.
When I 1st got my B4 (about a year ago) on Receptor, I noticed that certain patches had 'odd sounding' harmonic overtones on certain notes...(most in a particular octave)
I complained to NI about it; even sent them audio files and a list of the specific notes they were occuing on.
They said something like 'it was the natural sound that was recorded on the raw sample...'
Now, I just thoroughly check the patches I'm thinking of using, to make sure there's nothing there that's going to drive me nuts ('cause I know it's there)
When I 1st got my B4 (about a year ago) on Receptor, I noticed that certain patches had 'odd sounding' harmonic overtones on certain notes...(most in a particular octave)
I complained to NI about it; even sent them audio files and a list of the specific notes they were occuing on.
They said something like 'it was the natural sound that was recorded on the raw sample...'
Now, I just thoroughly check the patches I'm thinking of using, to make sure there's nothing there that's going to drive me nuts ('cause I know it's there)
JV
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- KVRist
- 387 posts since 24 Aug, 2004
JV-
THe specific problem I'm describing is NOT present in B4....only B4II. Pull out only the 8' drawbar, and play a C Major scale slowly up the keyboard. Listen and watch the meters. At a certain point on the keyboard the volume will shoot up, then go back down again. THe original B4 doesn't do this....
THe specific problem I'm describing is NOT present in B4....only B4II. Pull out only the 8' drawbar, and play a C Major scale slowly up the keyboard. Listen and watch the meters. At a certain point on the keyboard the volume will shoot up, then go back down again. THe original B4 doesn't do this....