Yes, a typical sample file will include many different samples to fill the entire range of an instrument.
For instance, if you take a sample for middle-C as the single sample for the entire 88 note range of a piano, you will end up with a very horrible sounding soundfont. Such samples at most can be stretched 3 half-steps each way before they sound extremely distorted. Sometimes soundfonts stretch them more, but that is why the best soundfonts are so huge for the same number (128) of GM sounds. Each patch utilizes many more samples. Human voice wav files are noticeably different even a single half-step up or down pitch changes but so does tone color. As for the volume level, you can try making it play a lot louder in WaveStudio to see if it will sound louder in Vienna. I just did a test, using one of the sample wav files which installed with my Audigy Platinum card. I opened the 16-bit.wav file in wavestudio and listened. Then I closed that and imported it into Vienna as a new sample and assigned it to the instrument Test (which I created for this experiment.) Then I listened to it at middle C and it sounded EXACTLY as it had in wavestudio. Vienna will automatically assign a single sample to the entire keyboard (128 notes), so this can prove for you what I was saying before. It sounds nothing like the original when I hit a very low note (plays V E R Y S L O W L Y and deep) and the same when I hit a very high note (only very rapid and high, like a chipmunk on speed). But the volume level of the sample as assigned with middle-C as the center played equally loud in both applications. So something is happening to your sample when you save it from WaveStudio. The best samples/sounfonts sample EACH note and assign that wav file to a single note. Michael Lawlor wrote: > Unfortunately, my request for help has not elicited the responses I was > hoping for. I understand the principles of what is going on, but have found > problems actually trying to get the process working. To be specific, I > recorded the sound of an instrument as a *.WAV file and then tried to import > this into Vienna. The original file plays okay in Winamp; it is barely > audible in Creative WaveStudio and cannot be heard at all when trying to > play the sound in Vienna or PlayCenter (at least the final cut-down version > of the file - the original recording plays fine but when I truncated > everything each side of the sound, the volume dropped to zero). [I have > checked that volume levels have been set high and set the playback to loop > where appropriate.] I have basic questions about the relationship of an > individual *.WAV file and a SoundFont bank - is it 1:1 or should several > related files be imported for different parts of the range? When creating > *WAV files, are there particular criteria on what makes a good sample (how > long should it be, should the transient effects at the beginning and end of > the note be included or should I create multiple samples for different types > of articulation and should these all go in the same soundfont bank? I > cannot articulate all of the questions I have here, which is why I was > hoping for some guidance on how the music relates to the technology and if > there are any books or websites that might explain this. > > Michael Lawlor > > _______________________________________________ > Finale mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mail.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale > -- David H. Bailey [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
