yep, I'm going to try and break it down in my tutorials and stuff I upload
to dropbox. I myself still go through trial and error on a regular basis
with it, but I've gotten it to a point that I can make it work as intended
after messing a bit.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Alfredo The Writer of music scores" <[email protected]>
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Sent: Saturday, August 13, 2011 11:11 PM
Subject: Re: QWS List replacing Microsoft gs wave-table synth
On 8/13/2011 6:06 PM, Jayson Smith wrote:
Hi,
Sounds interesting. Could I have a download link and maybe a simple
soundfont for study?
Thanks!
Jayson
----- Original Message ----- From: "Raymond Grote"
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Sent: Saturday, August 13, 2011 8:59 PM
Subject: Re: QWS List replacing Microsoft gs wave-table synth
Well, I found a way, but it's certainly not easy.
currently what I use is Sf2comp. what it does, is it decompiles a
soundfont into wav file, and a text file describing how the wavs should
be used, like key ranges, velocity ranges, instruments, etc. Then, you
can make changes to the wavs or the text file and recompile. You can
make your own soundfonts with it, however i always decompile a simple
one first and then modify it.
If you've got a ton of musical experience, it shooudlnt' be a problem
once you get the simple code down, but you'll still have t o play around
a bit with the peramitors to get the exact result you want. It's like
making Dectalk do things, if you're familiar with that. You don't really
quite know what you'll get until you listen.
Maybe we can talk about it off list?
----- Original Message ----- From: "Jayson Smith" <[email protected]>
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Sent: Saturday, August 13, 2011 7:53 PM
Subject: Re: QWS List replacing Microsoft gs wave-table synth
Hi,
Okay, now that this has come up... Is there an easy way to create your
own soundfont from samples you have laying around? Just want to do
stupid stuff like playing MIDI files with weird samples.
Jayson
----- Original Message ----- From: "Raymond Grote"
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Sent: Saturday, August 13, 2011 7:18 PM
Subject: Re: QWS List replacing Microsoft gs wave-table synth
Definitely agreed. I haven't tried larger than 8 meg soundfonts, but
the voice cutting out problem is more likely a bassmidi thing, and not
anything having to do with how much system resources you have.
I'm on hydrogen audio forums, and I made some suggestions there, since
it was pretty big on those forums. I'm waiting to here back.
Congrats to the author of the midi plug-in for xM play, and to the one
who turned it into a synth driver.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Juan Bello"
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Sent: Saturday, August 13, 2011 7:02 PM
Subject: Re: QWS List replacing Microsoft gs wave-table synth
alright, I simply don't know why list filters do not regular whether
the subject is {qws} re: something and re: [qws} something. in any
case, the driver has been working just great for me. My notebook has
got ... this 1.6 ghz processor, 1 gig of ram and the thing works most
OK with most midis using the fluid r3 gs soundfont, a decent
alternative. YOu can surely load de 2gb crisis one and expect much
more worse performance! it works real nice with qws, but band in a
box
seems to lag jsut a bit. i need to find a soundfont a bit under 142
mb
which is the size of the soundfont I am currently using. In any case,
problem solved, period. I think, and my suggestion is for this synth
to be put under the "misc" sectionw here the articles are ETC at the
qws home page, I am sure many will apreciate this information! and
perhaps, out of all of the ones who get this, we may commend or
recognize the author's work in some way.
2011/8/13, Raymond Grote <[email protected]>:
Yes, it has nothing to do with midi volume, it just changes the
volume of
Bassmidi's sound. By efault it's all the way up, which is to me, a
pretty
comfortable level for an average midi.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Nicole Massey" <[email protected]>
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Sent: Saturday, August 13, 2011 5:57 PM
Subject: RE: QWS List replacing Microsoft gs wave-table synth
Then the important question is, will this volume control respond to
MIDI
volume? (Continuous Controller 7)
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Raymond Grote
Sent: Saturday, August 13, 2011 4:57 PM
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And yet even some more information, the bassmidi driver is in fact,
a
realtime implementation of XM Play's midi plug-in. That's why they
are so
similar.
There is a volume control in Bassmidi's config window, you just have
to look
around for it. There are two tabs in the window, one called
soundfont and
one called advanced, in the advanced tab there is a volume control.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Raymond Grote" <[email protected]>
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Sent: Saturday, August 13, 2011 4:22 PM
Subject: Re: QWS List replacing microsoft gs wave-table synth
Whoa guys, the bassmidi driver is certainly a sttep forward!
It sounds almost exactly like xM play, which is what I was looking
for.
Very nice reverb and chorus! Very responsive without Asio drivers,
a nice
accessible config window, and no instrument issues or looping
issues to
complain about. And some other advanced controllers are supported
too.
Sometimes it can be a bit of a struggle to get it to work, just
load up a
midi in winamp or something that will use it, then load in QWS and
it
should work garenteed.
The only complaints I have are, A, the volume is loud, which is
good, but
you might want to watch out for distortion. It's not overly loud,
just
loud enough you have to be careful if you're pushing it as loud as
it can
go. And b, there seems to be a voice limit, because when loading a
custom
8 meg soundfont, instruments were cutting out left and right with
some
really heavy midis. I had the same problem with XM Play before they
updated the midi plug-in and added an adjustable voice limit, so
notes
cutting out is something you might want to watch out for. But it
shouldn't
be bad if you stay relatively simple
Thanks for the driver, it's the best yet and I will definitely
share with
friends!
----- Original Message -----
From: "Juan Bello" <[email protected]>
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Sent: Saturday, August 13, 2011 2:21 PM
Subject: Re: QWS List replacing microsoft gs wave-table synth
alright.. and, there is more! as of March 2011 some people have
been
working hard at this already! the following link points to a
driver
that replaces the microsoft gs wavetable sofsynth by installing an
"empty" midi driver. You can then configure the driver through a
really simplistic and accessible interface which will let you load
a
soundfont file and you can even give some of them priority above
others. This driver, this thing, enables any sound card that
cannot
use sound fonts to dinamically load any of your preferred sound
fonts
into ram memory, called bass mmidi driver:
https://github.com/mudlord/bassmididrv
2011/8/13, Alfredo The Writer of music scores <[email protected]>:
I meant reverberation.
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ayes, perhaps provide us with some sample sounds, it will be useful that
way I can choose whether I should take the risk or not.
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