Has anyone esle here bought the Dec.2004 issue 21 of Music Tech magazine which featured free instruments/samples of The Emperor and The Old Lady in 16-bit samples, but noticed every single sample has minute "clicks" which occur during each samples playback?
It makes these freebie instruments a complete waste of hard drive space and not to mention they are sonically unusable.
I certainly hope the purchase versions don't suffer from these sonic problems. And I hate to think that Music Tech knowingly gave away these free instruments with such bad samples.
Anyone else here bought the magazine and can confirm what I'm experiencing. I've even auditioned the samples in SoundForge, and the "clicks" are definitely there...what a disappointment!
Music Tech Issue 21 DVD - PMI Pianos Samples full of clicks
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- KVRer
- 6 posts since 5 Jan, 2005
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- KVRAF
- 12977 posts since 29 Sep, 2003 from Ottawa, Canada
Can you 'see' the clicks in the waveform?
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- KVRer
- Topic Starter
- 6 posts since 5 Jan, 2005
Yes you can. Especially when the samples audio is tapering off, because then the spikes are even more visually apparent since their volume exceeds that of the piano note itself.Lunch Money wrote:Can you 'see' the clicks in the waveform?
The spikes/clicks also jump around in the stereo-field, which is how you can take notice so quickly, because the pattern of movements the clicks make within the stereo-field.
This is such a shame too, because these piano samples are 3 velocities for each of the 88 notes, and you can tell they are great sounding instruments...if the clicks were just not there.
I fired off a letter to Music Tech's editor bringing all of this to his attention.
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- KVRAF
- 4265 posts since 21 Oct, 2001 from my bolthole in the south pacific
These sort of errors can be simply reproduction problems in the DVD print run. Some of the big drum libraries have had problems at the duplication end like this.
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- KVRer
- Topic Starter
- 6 posts since 5 Jan, 2005
These pianos are provided as GIGA files, and then they include mappings for Kontakt (which I use), Halion, and EXS. Of course, opening a GIGA file under Kontakt defaults Kontakt to extracting the wave samples from the .gig file and writing them to their own Kontakt Instrument folder.
Since I don't own a GIGA Player, it may be that the clicks are being introduced during the sample extraction under Kontakt...but I've NEVER experienced any clicks opening .gig files previously, so that's why I think it may be the samples themselves.
Since I don't own a GIGA Player, it may be that the clicks are being introduced during the sample extraction under Kontakt...but I've NEVER experienced any clicks opening .gig files previously, so that's why I think it may be the samples themselves.