A couple of keygroups for you to try

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ge-CBTyQiunzlRilIYgIu2tVGmsVEwCd/view?usp=sharing
https://drive.google.com/file/d/19D6v13s-2JF0CK78de5r1SdrJfBh2Ao9/view?usp=drive_link

A feed back guitar sample with one layer converted to a keygroup and a Japanese Concert Grand autosampled from my piano with 4 velocity layers.

Yours to have if you wish.

Cheers

oh nice, can't wait to try it out. Thanks for sharing with the family!

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1V8lhCk6FEaq-U3gR7RW41qkw0HMcyqNN/view?usp=sharing

Here's another piano to try, I think this one sampled better than the Japanese one so I'll probably re-do that one.

If you try it, let me know what you think.

Cheers

You're welcome, hope you like it, although I think I'm going to do it again as I think my German Grand came out better, noticeable in the lower registers.

Cheers

If you have downloaded this keygroup prior to 10:12PM UK Time, please download again as I found a couple of issues with it, turns out that the pads don't work well at all if you change the velocity layer values from the default, when I used the auto sampler i decided to try different velocity layers, they work absolutely fine with a midi keyboard attached but the pads just didn't want to play properly, all I needed to do was change the velocity layer values to the default in the program edit screen for the keygroup, also my polyphony was only set to 16 which isn't any good for a piano. I've sorted now, I hope.

Please let me know if you have any problems with it as I'm still learning the sampling bit along with everything else. )

A couple of ideas for improvement:

a) you should open up your WAVs in a sample editor and manually trim them as over 50% of them have a lot of empty space at the end of the file, you can probably get the overall size of the instrument down to around 70MB.

b) Also check the lower register notes as these are cutting off too soon, so you could try either re-sampling these to full decay, looping or applying a custom envelope to fade them out - this can be done at a sample level in a sample editor (and will reduce memory usage further) or within the keygroup itself using the amp envelope

c) a piano is only 88 notes, so I would suggest limiting the keyrange of the instrument accordingly.

d) consider adding some velocity sensitive low pass filter to help smooth the tonal changes, especially at low velocities

MPC-Tutor

Many thanks for your input, I will certainly look into improving the pianos.

I will try these suggestions now as I'm currently re-sampling the Japanese Grand.

Cheers

Martin

Hi Folks

Here's the latest version of the 2 pianos, I've re-done all the samples and adjusted things as suggested by MPC-Tutor, please try them out and let me know what you think. If you wish to of course.

Cheers

Martin

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1gIquvuqRAue8WygrwufFkr9UIEhhqxkD/view?usp=sharing
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1vxBScbbirWUkYIe3itA9Au4je1WtqtuD/view?usp=sharing

Good work.

You must have a lot of pianos lying around....

jamos wrote:Good work.

You must have a lot of pianos lying around....

From his post in a different topic I'm assuming these are all patches from a digital piano or workstation (you can hear the loops from the original samples).

MPC-Tutor

Yes they are. Don't have any acoustic pianos, I'm not rich. :O(

Last one I promise.

This one has 8 Layers and I've tried to smooth everything as best as I can.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/16dFWqnI_kyIlw6cceXfilVP6bx1770F2/view?usp=sharing

There’s no need to keep creating new topics for this, one will suffice and just keep adding to it if you want. I’ll merge all the existing ones when I get a chance

Topics merged

MPC-Tutor

Why can't I edit my posts, the edit option seems to have disappeared?

It lets me edit this one but no previous ones.

Cheers

Martin