Rellik Posted May 13, 2006 Share Posted May 13, 2006 But face the truth... good stuff is not free. With the exception of a massive amount of stuff. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Compyfox Posted May 13, 2006 Share Posted May 13, 2006 VSTi's maybe (hell I like my Synth1 and SuperWaveP8). But not "really good" samples. Average to good samples, yeah - if you know how to handle and mix them. But what he asks is "uber-hot shit", and best for free. And that won't happen unless he goes the illegal way. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Argle Posted May 13, 2006 Share Posted May 13, 2006 Yay, ordered the QL Pop and Orchestral brass titles the other day. Hope they're good. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tyler Heath Posted May 14, 2006 Share Posted May 14, 2006 Yikes. That sure hurts the discount. I'll grab a couple of these CDs while I can and look into the converter when I can afford it. According to Unknown (Ty), the CDxtract demo let's you convert one folder at a time. However, it considers the entire CD as one folder, so you SHOULD be able to use that to convert to soundfont. In regards to the Guitar + bass programming.. you're going to want some sort of sampler like Kontakt, Halion, or VSampler to reprogram it. It is very poorly programmed to begin with. There are different patches for high/low regions on the keyboards and soft and loud velocities. the demo of CDXtract won't recognize QL Brass, unfortunately (although I think zirc pointed out that neither does the full version, right?). however, as far as the Ultimate Piano Collection goes, for example, the library is split up into quite a few partitions, each with several volumes, and each volume containing several programs. the first of these programs in every volume contains the entire chromatic note range for that piano. the CDXtract demo only lets the user save the first program of any volume (although you can save as many samples as you like, so IF you can program well, then you're set -- provided you've got some serious excess time and energy). therefore, those of you who bought the piano collection but don't have a conversion program nor the money to buy one right now, just grab the demo and make do until you can buy it. seriously though, it's already been recommended to me more than once (and I'm beginning to whole-heartedly agree) -- GET A CONVERSION PROGRAM, especially if you're looking at an extended interest in computer music. but yeah, just thought I'd clarify. also, mods, if promoting using a demo isn't cool with you and/or it borders on inappropriate discussion (along the lines of piracy, I guess?), feel free to delete this and let me know for future reference. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darangen Posted May 14, 2006 Share Posted May 14, 2006 Ditto that. I can't afford CDXtract right away, but the demo is more than enough to hold me over for now. If computer music is only a hobby for you and you're not willing to shell out money for a conversion program or appropriate sampler, you shouldn't worry about high quality samples either. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tyler Heath Posted May 14, 2006 Share Posted May 14, 2006 addendum: as far as I can tell, CDXtract CAN in fact read and convert QL Brass -- rather than trying to load the disc by the conventional Disc menu, go through the Files menu instead. (hopefully everyone who reads this understands where those two are and what the difference is? D: ) also, for you demo users, while you're limited to converting the first program, you can also convert the entire directory -- it will come out as one huge soundfont bank, but you can then extract those soundfonts individually. happy creative-problem-solving! EDIT: disregard most of the above. ALL YOU NEED TO DO is click save after you've selected the entire folder of .akp files. CDXtract will do the rest for you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darangen Posted May 14, 2006 Share Posted May 14, 2006 Ty, you my friend are the man. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
suzumebachi Posted May 15, 2006 Share Posted May 15, 2006 Ty, you my friend are the man. why thank you! >_> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SnappleMan Posted May 15, 2006 Share Posted May 15, 2006 See, this is why I prefer your middle name... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Compyfox Posted May 15, 2006 Share Posted May 15, 2006 Seems like some stuff is out of stock/print and got removed. This way the invoice got changed too. The same happened with my order. There was an FX audio CD in there which is now out of print/stock. So they removed it from the list. Would have been nice however if we'd known that sooner via eMail or something, so that we could have add more material to the order, which makes shipping (especially international) more cheap. I mean... the hell FedEx charges extra 7,80bucks to the VAT and regular import tax lately, no matter if you want it or not. They call it "management taxes". I paid more for shipping, handling and tax than what I paid for the samples! o_O Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Compyfox Posted May 15, 2006 Share Posted May 15, 2006 A pity that BestService rarely makes "sales" or groupbuys. Here you get stuff fair priced with less shipping costs - INTERNATIONAL! But... well... it's still okay. I purchased stuff that cost 500+bucks for like... 40bucks plus 42bucks extra for shipping and handling. Still a fair deal. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
suzumebachi Posted May 15, 2006 Share Posted May 15, 2006 whoa $42 for shipping? jesus. they charged me like $15 USD, which is still a lot. but like you said, it's still a good deal. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rellik Posted May 16, 2006 Share Posted May 16, 2006 disregard most of the above. ALL YOU NEED TO DO is click save after you've selected the entire folder of .akp files. CDXtract will do the rest for you. Wow! You're right! The makers of CDXtract apparently don't understand the concept of "demo" "limitations" but hey, it's legal, or close enough! Thanks for the tip to make it a little bit clearer for others, click the blue "Files" drop-down in the upper left below the menu-bar, then select "Convert batch..." - you would think that they would have disabled batch conversion, but it works fine, as far as I can tell. I transferred all of the AKAI S-5000 files to HD first, just so I have them, and ran CDXtract on the folder on the HD rather than on the individual CD's, but it should work either way... EDIT: anybody else find QLBrass's 3B SUSFF to be... strangely non-FF? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tyler Heath Posted May 16, 2006 Share Posted May 16, 2006 exactly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
suzumebachi Posted May 17, 2006 Share Posted May 17, 2006 haha percussive adventures is pretty cool stuff. i forgot how much of a pain in the ass AKAI S1000 was to deal with though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Navi Posted May 17, 2006 Share Posted May 17, 2006 <3 brass. check out my sig for a sample of how much i luv brass. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
suzumebachi Posted May 17, 2006 Share Posted May 17, 2006 i've finally got to play with the QL Guitar & Bass. the samples themselves are actually pretty nice... but the mapping on the ROLAND version is absolutely god fucking awful. i mean... seriously. bad notes abound. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zircon Posted May 17, 2006 Author Share Posted May 17, 2006 I know D: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sadpickle the exalted Posted May 18, 2006 Share Posted May 18, 2006 So, I got my CDs today... frankly I'm at a loss. I loaded up QL Guitar and Bass (I got AKAI S1) into CDXtract. Now I'm no programmer, but I can logically get how this mapping thing works, though I have no idea how to do it myself. And this shit is kinda pissing me off. Not only are the soft and loud velocities for the instruments in a volume broken into different programs, all the slides and switches are mapped to ONE program. I have no idea how this is supposed to make anything fluid. Another thing that confuses me. I quote, from the demo on the clearance page: "Most patches have 4 to 5 samples per note." Now like I said, I'm not expert, but from what I saw, I saw ONE .wav sample for each note, in a three octave range. I'm confused. Someone please help me understand why this retailed for $250 and what I'm doing wrong. edit: ps, percussive adventures is cool Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zylance Posted May 18, 2006 Share Posted May 18, 2006 I personally think the QL Rare Instruments is of poor quality, but I may be tainted by my surrounding of good samples. I love the QL Brass, Ultimate Piano and Percussion Adventures, though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zircon Posted May 23, 2006 Author Share Posted May 23, 2006 Yeah. But just so you know those guys do a sale like that a good 5 times a year at least. So don't feel pressured to spend NOW as they'll be doing one several times throughout the year. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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