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Patch2006 · Post by **Patch2006** » Sat Dec 13, 2008 9:36 pm

I am glad you made this available for free to download! very cool!
kudos to a good person.

-James-

Gregjazz · Post by **Gregjazz** » Sun Dec 14, 2008 12:50 am

Thanks!! Also, a big thanks to the people who have been converting the jazz drumset to other formats! I know it's a lot of work, so hats off to you guys.

In case you haven't heard, I'm having a big Christmas sale at Orange Tree Samples, so you can save up to $35 USD on my sample libraries until the end of December.

Also, soon I will be making a video demonstrating CoreGuitar Strawberry and all of its features.

pljones · Post by **pljones** » Sun Dec 14, 2008 9:04 pm

dickiefunk wrote:I'll put up some mp3 demos of what I mean tomorrow.

Weird... I do get this: both versions of SFZ (as I don't have multi-threading, that's no surprise in itself). What's strange, is I don't get it with the samples loaded into <NDA>another sample player</NDA>, so it's not the samples!

When I get some time, I'll see if I can fathom out what's going on. Maybe over xmas.

dickiefunk · Post by **dickiefunk** » Sun Dec 21, 2008 1:51 pm

pljones wrote:
dickiefunk wrote:I'll put up some mp3 demos of what I mean tomorrow.
Weird... I do get this: both versions of SFZ (as I don't have multi-threading, that's no surprise in itself). What's strange, is I don't get it with the samples loaded into <NDA>another sample player</NDA>, so it's not the samples!

When I get some time, I'll see if I can fathom out what's going on. Maybe over xmas.

Thanks that would be great!

pljones · Post by **pljones** » Wed Dec 24, 2008 4:29 pm

Right... I'm onto something. It's not just our ears:

http://www.drealm.info/temp/testGregJazz.flac (13.5Mb) [stream]

pljones · Post by **pljones** » Wed Dec 24, 2008 5:07 pm

OK... On the normalised samples, these hit -1. This is the only thing I can think that could be causing the problem... I shall try compressing the samples lightly and see if that fixes it.

pljones · Post by **pljones** » Wed Dec 24, 2008 5:36 pm

I applied
sox {filename} outdir\{filename} vol -0.0001 dB
to all the samples and the click seems to have gone. Like I say, it looks like it's probably an SFZ error...

(If you don't have sox, get it!)

Before: http://www.drealm.info/temp/testGregJazz2.flac (2M) [stream]
After: http://www.drealm.info/temp/testGregJazz3.flac (2M) [stream]

dickiefunk · Post by **dickiefunk** » Thu Jan 08, 2009 12:01 pm

Hi pljones.

Do you have the mappings for the working version of these?

What is sox?

Thanks

pljones · Post by **pljones** » Fri Jan 09, 2009 1:53 pm

There's no change to the mappings.

dickiefunk · Post by **dickiefunk** » Fri Jan 09, 2009 4:18 pm

pljones wrote:There's no change to the mappings.

Hi. Thanks for the reply. What do I need to do to get these to work on my computer?

Saukar30 · Post by **Saukar30** » Fri Jan 09, 2009 4:49 pm

Thk U VERY Much for this sample set, Greg! I'm woring on doing a electronic jazz CD and have been looking hi & low for the perfect drum sounds...these are it!

Thx to pljones & others for the mappings!!!

pljones · Post by **pljones** » Fri Jan 09, 2009 5:57 pm

Sorry, dickiefunk, didn't notice your question about sox.

It's a tool for manipulating sound files. It lives here:
http://sox.sourceforge.net/
It's a powerful - and therefore necessarily complex - tool. But here you just need to trim the volume of each sample fractionally using the command line I gave above.

I used the GNU Bash shell to do it, because I'm more familiar with it than the Windows command line. Using cmd.exe, I think you'd do something like this:

cmd.exe wrote:cd {wherever the samples are}
mkdir outdir
for %f in (*.wav) do sox "%f" "outdir\%f" vol -0.0001 dB
mkdir ..\saved
move *.wav ..\saved
move outdir\* .

Aside from the line in bold, it's all just standard file management bits you could do through Explorer.

skank · Post by **skank** » Mon Jan 12, 2009 1:26 pm

A late but nevertheless sincere - Thank you.

//Skank

stk · Post by **stk** » Mon Jan 12, 2009 10:08 pm

Thanks for the samples, Greg.
The rides are particularly nice - finally, some ride edge/crash hits that sound really nice.
I for one would *love* a more detailed (detailed as in more velocity layers, love as in pay for) sampling of both rides.

stk · Post by **stk** » Tue Jan 13, 2009 2:38 am

I've created my own NKM/NKIs for Kontakt 2/3.
GM-ified the mappings, put high-hat position under CC4 control, snare off/on under CC1, added a script to autoplay the snare lever noise when CC1 is 0/127.
Download

Kick
B0 - C1
* CC1 switches snare off (0) / on (127)
* I reversed the order of the kicks as I prefer the deeper-tuned one.

Snare
C#1 - E1
* CC1 switches snare off (0) / on (127)
* Snare lever noise plays when CC1 set to 0 / 127 - you can disable this by bypassing the script.

Toms
G1 / A1 / B1
* CC1 switches snare off (0) / on (127)
* I created an artifical low tom by detuning the 14"

Hats
F1-F#1 / G#1 / A#1
* CC4 switches open position
* CC4 switches pedal down to pedal splash when > 64

Cymbals
D#2 / F2 - F#2
B2 - C3

Cheers,
sk

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