Shortcircuit now freeware.

[silicon/silicium]

Looping kicks ass in SC2. If you change the ¨hi¨ key in the ¨names and ranges¨ the loop will split to the keys covered.

Any extra words about this, I have no success trying to split the loop. May I need marked file like rex or acid??

[sinkmusic]

3. There are some things I just can't do, such as using it for drums. I understand that this subject would be larger than taking on a box or two on the Zones page. But I just don't have experience with Battery, etc, so I don't know how things should be configured. More help needed, in other words.

Ok, so first sketch for a "make your own drumkit 101" :
SC2 drumkit creation sketch manual
(I'll work on it more later)

[.jon]

Nice starter-guide Jake!

We could put this kind of stuff on the vember wiki, feel free to send me a mail/PM if you want a user account.

Thanks for SC.

I agree a wiki would be great, I can host this pdf and other files, but maybe a wiki would be easier to develop.

[Branis]

3. There are some things I just can't do, such as using it for drums. I understand that this subject would be larger than taking on a box or two on the Zones page. But I just don't have experience with Battery, etc, so I don't know how things should be configured. More help needed, in other words.

Ok, so first sketch for a "make your own drumkit 101" :
SC2 drumkit creation sketch manual
(I'll work on it more later)

It's a nice start .
You can add that you can right-click in the virtual keyboard zone and select "switch to pad view", which is very convenient for drum kits.

[bduffy]

I'd like to make a notion that the current version of Shortcircuit 2 does work with .GIG files, most likely older version or small ones which is all I have...

1. Can other people weigh in here? (Claes?) Does SC2 support Giga? I only tried 2-3 times, and all of the files were large piano files. None loaded. Is support based on the size or complexity of the instruments? On the version of Giga they were created in? More generally, is there a list of which formats absolutely do and don't load?

SC2 does not seem to recognize the two small GIG files I have.

[lowkey]

Looping kicks ass in SC2. If you change the ¨hi¨ key in the ¨names and ranges¨ the loop will split to the keys covered.

Any extra words about this, I have no success trying to split the loop. May I need marked file like rex or acid??

Hey Silicon

This is what I did...

1. I dragged a loop to ¨c1¨ on the keyboard. The loop I used was a wav. I havent tried anything else yet. The loop looked sliced in the display.

2. In the ¨names and ranges¨ section I raised the ¨hi¨ range in key to ¨c2¨. SC2 splits the loop across your keyboard for you.


Why dont we use the KVR wiki to collect informaion. We could cross refrence information already there. and here on the boards.

http://www.kvraudio.com/wiki/?id=Tutorials

[tomg]

SC2 does not seem to recognize the two small GIG files I have.

I didn't have any gig files so I made a few with EXSC and they mostly work. If you've got EXSC try converting gig to SFZ. If you don't have EXSC maybe nows the time. It's on sale even!

http://www.extranslator.com/

You know? With a fist full of good sample CDs SC might be the only instrument a lot of people use. It was pretty empty before but I could really empty out my VSTi folder now. I love that it's free so musicians everywhere can use this great instrument to make music but man is it going to kill the market for software samplers.

So.... screw the market. This is great!

[sinkmusic]

Ok, it has been updated.
grab it here.

[bduffy]

SC2 does not seem to recognize the two small GIG files I have.

I didn't have any gig files so I made a few with EXSC and they mostly work. If you've got EXSC try converting gig to SFZ. If you don't have EXSC maybe nows the time. It's on sale even!

http://www.extranslator.com/

You know? With a fist full of good sample CDs SC might be the only instrument a lot of people use. It was pretty empty before but I could really empty out my VSTi folder now. I love that it's free so musicians everywhere can use this great instrument to make music but man is it going to kill the market for software samplers.

So.... screw the market. This is great!

Yeah, I can convert the Gigs to something else; just curious if it could read them natively. Not a huge concern. At all.

Well, here's to hoping it really catches on. It'd be interesting if it got to popular, it would have to be re-developed...

[sinkmusic]

I have no success trying to split the loop. May I need marked file like rex or acid??

1. I dragged a loop to ¨c1¨ on the keyboard. The loop I used was a wav. I havent tried anything else yet. The loop looked sliced in the display.

2. In the ¨names and ranges¨ section I raised the ¨hi¨ range in key to ¨c2¨. SC2 splits the loop across your keyboard for you.

The wav loops i load doesn't look sliced at all, and even by selecting "slice keymapped" and stretching the sample to one ocatve on the keymap, it does nothing : only C2 can trig the loop (no automatpping), and i can't manage to add slices (even right click > set zone start" does nothig at all).

[hcv242]

guess that empty space in the gui below the mod matrix in the part window was reserved for a part lfo ...or is there other way that i can use the zone lfos in the part mod matrix ?

does anyone knows what are the numbers above some of the adsr sliders ... value multipliers or range limiters ? is that seconds ?

does anyone has any clues ?

Yes, of course.


0 is a linear function, - values change it progressively (with increasing value) to a concave curve , + values to a convex curve


edit: that goes for attack - for decay and release it's the other way around.

thanks...

it hasnt crashed once...and it loads fast.. very cool

the only problem ive found so far is that stepLFO ---> Zone Start doesnt work in the zones mod matrix . can anyone confirm this ?

are there other known problems ?

[sinkmusic]

There is a strange thing going on, too : sometimes, i don't have access to the efx nor the playback modes, it seems that it is when i load it in a host for the first time, but i am not sure...
(and yes, before you ask : a sample is selected ! ).
Did anyone noticed that ?

BTW, i have checked : indeed, there is no automation at all
(I'll try tomorrow if in Reaper with the "might mouse automation" -and in forthcoming version of Ext2 maybe- i can bypass that limitation).

[Branis]

I have no success trying to split the loop. May I need marked file like rex or acid??

1. I dragged a loop to ¨c1¨ on the keyboard. The loop I used was a wav. I havent tried anything else yet. The loop looked sliced in the display.

2. In the ¨names and ranges¨ section I raised the ¨hi¨ range in key to ¨c2¨. SC2 splits the loop across your keyboard for you.

The wav loops i load doesn't look sliced at all, and even by selecting "slice keymapped" and stretching the sample to one ocatve on the keymap, it does nothing : only C2 can trig the loop (no automatpping), and i can't manage to add slices (even right click > set zone start" does nothig at all).

I just opened a wav drumloop into Acoustica, added labels (markers) to the hits and saved the file. When I loaded the loop into SC2 it was automaticaly set to "Slice Keymapped" and sliced where I put labels (with orange H markers like in your screenshot). I was also able to spread it to get the loop divided across the keyboard. I couldn't add any more slices, but I could move the existing ones.

[lowkey]

I dragged from my sample folder...
http://files.mint-space.com/getfile,200 ... 1.png.html

into SC2. The slicing was automatic. I changed the range on the part....

http://files.mint-space.com/getfile,200 ... 2.png.html

This happend when I was using SC2 in stand alone window mode, in XT2 using WineASIO on Linux Ubuntu.

How are you loading the sample into SC2?

[Branis]

I dragged from my sample folder...
http://files.mint-space.com/getfile,200 ... 1.png.html

into SC2. The slicing was automatic. I changed the range on the part....

http://files.mint-space.com/getfile,200 ... 2.png.html

This happend when I was using SC2 in stand alone window mode, in XT2 using WineASIO on Linux Ubuntu.

How are you loading the sample into SC2?

Can you open your loop in an audio editor to see if there are markers in it?