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There appears to be an incorrect link on the Workshop Page Towards the bottom if you click on the heading for "Latest Feedback: Original/Other" it directs you to "Feedback: Workshop ReMixes" The current link is: http://ocremix.org/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=16 It should be: http://ocremix.org/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=19 I've cleared my cache and I'm in Konqueror/Ubuntu

effects pedals can work on any sound source. Just note that some effects have stereo output. So although you can feed your standard mono guitar cable into the input, you would need a stereo (TRS) cable coming from the pedal output to take full advantage of those effects.

The term "aux" output doesn't say anything about what type of cable you need or can use. It just means that you can use that port for either input or output, as the case may be. The aux input on your car stereo is probably a 1/8" stereo connection (a.k.a. stereo mini-jack) like you'd use on an mp3 player. I'm not sure, but I'd think that your violin would use a mono connection like most instrument connectors. If that is the case, then any guitar/instrument cable will do. Since most of those are 1/4" mono, to connect to the violin you'd need a male 1/8" mono to female 1/4" mono adapter. If the connection is a stereo mini-jack, then you can use a male 1/8" stereo to female 1/4" mono adapter. Of course using a mono instrument cable (a.k.a. a TS cable) gives you a mono signal. If the signal from the violin is actually stereo then instead of a mono instrument cable you could use a stereo 1/4" (a.k.a. a 1/4" TRS) cable with the appropriate adapters.

Seconded! That ducktales vid is hilarious

Happy Birthday!!!

Oh no, this problem brought back to haunt me Well, I did some more detailed digging, and the answer hinges on whether or not SFZ responds to the MIDI pitch bend sensitivity RPN. The sfz "manual" doesn't list this RPN as one that it reads, although it does mention being able to bend notes up to two octaves and it says that the default range is +/- 2 semitones. So sounds hopeful, right? I've never used RPN's before so forgive me if I'm wrong or stating the obvious here, but RPN's are similar to CC messages, but they can take on more values than your standard 0-127 (because they are passed as a larger chunk of data). The General MIDI specs says that an RPN of MSB=0, LSB=0 indicates the "pitch bend sensitivity". After those bytes are specified, a CC of 6 sends the data value in semitones of the desired pitch bend range. The default is +/- 2 semitones. Yeah. Whatever. All that means is that in order to get SFZ to change the pitch bend sensitivity, you have to send it a specific value of RPN (0,0) and CC, then all should be well. Well, I did this in as many ways as I could think of in SONAR, and no dice. SONAR even has a way to skip all of the nonsense and directly input a "pitch bend sensitivity" event that should directly adjust the parameter, but still nothing. This really isn't about music making for me anymore. This is personal. Why won't SFZ recognize the pitch bend sensitivity parameter? Why is it making this so difficult?

Very helpful, man. Thanks. I'm fairly certain that there are free utilities out there to accomplish similar tasks, with not too much additional hassle. The batch renaming especially seems like an easy tool to program, but maybe not in high enough demand that a free one has been made available.

According to their website, sSounds like the people at Flying Hand Percussion took the easy road out and handled that by providing Zen Drum specific mappings on top of their standard sample set. I suppose that's not to say that the library isn't already optimized for live performance though. With so many samples, I've heard of people writing scripts to handle naming and common tedious edits. Do you do anything like that? Why the 3 different wave editors; what gets done in which? According to the description of "Legato Drumming": I'm thinking it's not 'legato' in the standard sense, but more of a marketing phrase to mean some type of algorithm that's supposed to make the performance sound more fluid than you would normally get with triggering a sequence of one-shot samples.

Certainly. No sample set will do everything well, and if it did, no one would have the money to afford it, or the system specs to run it Are you talking about their "Legato Drumming"? If so, I've often wondered when an instrument based in a proprietary sampler like Kontakt has a proprietary script/algorithm/whatever, is that piece of code hidden from the user? Can the user see and manipulate the scripting for "Legato Drumming" or are there other methods besides scripting to add custom functionality to Kontakt? Interesting. Where percussion is concerned, I'd consider myself a performer, but I feel the same way about performance patches or patches that lack versatility. While performing via midi, the more control I have over the subtle nuance that I would get playing the real instrument, the better. Put another way, as a performer, if the articulations are detailed and representative of the real instrument, it doesn't matter to me how playable the instrument is.EDIT: Thanks for the tips Andy, I'll check out Nils tomorrow.

Looks good at a first glace. Printing now, thanks!

Sounds like a good plan. Sounds like a good party I think you may be hitting the ellipsis key instead of the comma

haha! that. is. awesome.

Jamspace (pic on the site features The Xenotones!) is the instrument packed stage area at MAGFest reserved primarily for open jam sessions anytime during the conference. In addition to the open jam sessions, last year they featured a Jamspace concert where individuals or groups could sign up and play a few songs. VERY fun. Is that enough reason for you to make the LONG trip to the east coast one more time?

Passing this along: http://www.firstgiving.com/cinesamples Cinesamples is offering a djembe sample set (Kontakt or FREE Kontakt Player format) for a suggested donation of $10. Not sure if I'm going to get this since I own and play a djembe, but the demo sounded ok and it's for a good cause, so maybe

Stevo lives near you, we probably could have picked you up. Did we just miss the ball on that one?

And just another note, none of those links are working for me.

Cool, thanks. I've built small percussive instruments before, but your tips are definitely a good start. I'm interested in a bit more detail though. For example, if I worked for NI and was producing a Kontakt Conga library (inevitably called Kontakt Konga), what all goes into that process? There is so much power bottled up in Kontakt that most end users will never take advantage of, but I'd imagine that the people trying to make money off of these libraries do (or should) exploit more of the features to make the library more versatile, playable, tweakable, and user-friendly. And even if I was just thinking about making instruments for personal use, and even if it was just percussive, I can't imagine that just sampling hits with RR could give the potential of all of the expressiveness of a conga. I mean, have you seen some of the greats play!? They make those drums sing. And making a singing sampled performance is what I'm after

I miss being able to click the words "OVERCLOCKED REMIX" to get back to the homepage. The logo link is just too small a target for my erratic mouse work. I know you mentioned fixing the image map on the logo, not sure if that included adding the link. Where I stand on the issues: a-z links: Miss them sidebar: never disliked it, like the dropdown search better new colors: I'm neutral better way to donate to site: definitely agree it needs to be more clear. A few weeks ago it took way too long for the zZounds rep to find the affiliate link from the main page. Related to that, I think that the "shirts" link is unclear. "OCR merchandise" or "merchandise" or "OCR store" or "store" would make more sense to me.

Do it! This awesome song must be spread to the masses! I have a feeling that Jamsapce is going to get more than a few cartoon theme songs this year.

I'd honestly be interested in learning for the sake of learning, but I've also had a few percussion library ideas in mind. Fortunately, I would think that those are the easiest types to work with.

I think your roommates and I are catching the same bug. Maybe you could ask them and post any good suggestions they have here. In addition to Andy and Will, Mattias might have a few good suggestions

LOL. 1/3!? Hilarious. For those of us in the other 2/3 of people, I'd expect the difference between lossless and say 128kbps to be able to be represented on any old pair of speakers with a high enough frequency response. In an A/B comparison I can hear that difference on $10 ear buds, so I don't think that gold plated copperless whatevers are required.

I'm interested in learning the nitty-gritty of developing a Kontakt-based sample library. Everything from non-Kontakt specific ideas like proper recording/processing techniques, to more Kontakt-related stuff like arranging samples into zones/instruments/multis, scripting, and developing a user interface. The manual gets into some of this, but not much and not well, imo. I would love to know, for example, how some of the more detailed user interfaces that come with the Kontakt core library are developed. Does anyone know of any online tutorials, books or other resources that could give me the scoop without having to get a degree in audio production?

Great AMV, thanks for sharing it here Selphie! I couldn't be happier to hear that you and so many other people are still enjoying Dragon Song. Thanks everyone for the amazing feedback