Cloning a grand piano

[Atte Jensen]

Hi

I just compiled synthclone, and made my first test session, works great!

Might be a bit ambitious, but I'd like to clone a Yamaha Digital Grand that I have access to. The large version would be every note in ten velocity layers, no loops.

1) Is there a faster way to set up the session, than to manually enter every zone (A0-C8) in ten layers?
2) I didn't try the trimmer yet, would that be safe, especially would it preserve the attack and tail if I set all lengths to say 60 seconds? And could you explain a little bit about how it works, I mean how it decides what should be trimmed away?

Thanks for a great piece of software!

Atte

[Atte Jensen]

Hi again!

1) Is there a faster way to set up the session, than to manually enter every zone (A0-C8) in ten layers?

Stupid me, just found the zone generator :-)
 

2) I didn't try the trimmer yet, would that be safe, especially would it preserve the attack and tail if I set all lengths to say 60 seconds? And could you explain a little bit about how it works, I mean how it decides what should be trimmed away?

I'd still be interested in some info on the trimmer, though...

Atte

[Devin Anderson]

Hi Atte,

On Thu, Jun 19, 2014 at 12:17 AM, Atte Jensen <atte....@gmail.com> wrote:

>> 1) Is there a faster way to set up the session, than to manually enter
>> every zone (A0-C8) in ten layers?
>
> Stupid me, just found the zone generator :-)

It may be that the plugins should be easier to locate and
enable/disable. If you have any suggestions, let me know.

>> 2) I didn't try the trimmer yet, would that be safe, especially would it
>> preserve the attack and tail if I set all lengths to say 60 seconds? And
>> could you explain a little bit about how it works, I mean how it decides
>> what should be trimmed away?
>
> I'd still be interested in some info on the trimmer, though...

The trimmer is a simple plugin that looks at the start and end of
samples, and removes frames at the start and end up until it finds
sound data that is louder than a certain specified threshold (in
dBFS). The threshold is configurable, as is whether or not you trim
samples from the start and whether or not you trim samples from the
end. You don't need to worry about changing your samples permanently,
as synthclone keeps two copies of any sample; one without effects
applied, and one with effects applied. If you don't like how the
samples came out after using the trimmer, just change the trimmer
settings and apply the effects again.

I can't know whether or not it would preserve the attack without
actually experimenting with different trimmer settings, but I'm
confident that there is a threshold you can find that works as a sweet
spot.

Hope this helps,

--
Devin Anderson
surfacepatterns (at) gmail (dot) com

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