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Why do some virtual instruments sound more realistic than others?
Compressing 30 years of research into a couple of short paragraphs…
Non-percussive instruments are what's known in the trade as "an absolute b**ch to sample" because they can change over ...
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Why do some virtual instruments sound more realistic than others?
Any instrument that is percussive (you play the note and then there's almost nothing more you can do with it except stop it) is fairly easy to synthesize.
Any instrument where the player forms the ...
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Why do some virtual instruments sound more realistic than others?
Others have mentioned more general answers, I'll try to provide a comparison of two real instruments.
You mentioned it was easier to find guitar samples, then it was to find stringed instruments (e.g....
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How to access the lower manual and pedalboard on setBfree Organ emulator
According to this reference (sorry in French), the other manuals can be accessed by changing the MIDI channel.
The link actually gives a technique, using qmidiroute (a very useful program), to map ...
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How to access the lower manual and pedalboard on setBfree Organ emulator
I found the answer, pretty simple:
Parameters for 'MIDI Parser':
midi.upper.channel I (1)
The MIDI channel to use for the upper manual. range: [1..16]
midi.lower....
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