KVR Audio

Adambomb337 · Post by **Adambomb337** » Sun Dec 03, 2006 5:32 am

I was wondering if there was a sample library that has only captured the sound of the artifacts from instruments. For instance, when you play the piano, the sound of the foot pedle makes a metal on wood sound. For a upright bass, the string hits the fret. Has someone capture these but muted the actual noted pitch that would normally be heard and just kept the percussion element?

Markleford · Post by **Markleford** » Sun Dec 03, 2006 5:49 am

You could use an additive analysis/resynth program like SPEAR to separate the noise transients from the fundamental pitch of any sample.

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Debutante · Post by **Debutante** » Sun Dec 03, 2006 6:32 am

EDIT: misread post

Vonbrucken · Post by **Vonbrucken** » Sun Dec 03, 2006 1:24 pm

Adambomb337 wrote:I was wondering if there was a sample library that has only capture the sound artifacts from instruments. For instance, when you play the piano, sound of the foot pedle makes a metal on wood sound. For a upright bass, the string hits the fret. Has someone capture these but muted the actual noted pitch that would normally come and just kept the percussion element?

try the bella media scoring noise
http://www.beladmedia.com/Scoring_Noise_2.pdf
it was available freely once

Adambomb337 · Post by **Adambomb337** » Mon Dec 04, 2006 9:28 am

Markleford - can that be done in adobe audition too?

Markleford · Post by **Markleford** » Mon Dec 04, 2006 2:34 pm

Adambomb337 wrote:Markleford - can that be done in adobe audition too?

Not really too well. Audition *does* have a "Spectral View" that shows the frequency bands of a sound, and you can use the "Marquee Selection Tool" to delete the tonal content (you'll see it as long lines of color) of the note to leave the noise parts. The trick is how intermingled those parts are: sometimes it's all over, and sometimes the target has to be too precise for it to not delete stuff you want to keep. Generally it's better for *removing* parts of unwanted noise to make it less pronounced (like chair creaks).

If that sort of spectral surgery gets too frustrating, do check out that SPEAR link: still free, I believe, so probably worth messing around with for a bit.

EDIT: Oh, and I should say that I haven't upgraded to Audition 2.x, so it may have added a useful feature in this department since 1.5 and I might not know!

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mfb · Post by **mfb** » Mon Dec 04, 2006 4:47 pm

The "dead piano" over at prokits has a bunch of such noises,
check it out (avialable for a number of soft sampler formats
incl. Kontakt & Halion),

www.prokits.co.uk/productview.asp?productID=213

mfb

percussion artifacts from musical instruments?