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From: Bertram Willis <withoutpaper@camtel.net>
To: Band-in-a-Box@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Wednesday, August 17, 2011 12:41 PM
Subject: Re: [Band-in-a-Box] Re: VSTi vs DXi vs Roland VSC
Thank you for your response. But, I'm still confused.....how can you have real instruments and still edit them as if they were Midi??
Because the 'real instrument' is compiled from multiple audio samples of individual notes, frequently several samples for each note sensitive to different midi velocity so that the characteristics/ nuances of playing the instrument loudly or softly are captured. The midi message then tells the instrument which sample to play at which velocity. More complex instruments have greater sample variety to, for examples, create long sustaining notes without use of looped samples or alternate notes to play in 'round robin' fashion. A piano softsynth might have not 88 audio samples but 88 x 10 (for 10 layers of velocity levels) time 5 (for various pedal articulations) x 2 (for grand's top open or closed) for 8000+ samples to reproduce the characteristics of that piano. You edit the midi to trigger them ... although once recorded to a single audio file, you can, of course, edit the file.
Right now I'm using an external Ketron sound module but I would like to have software based instruments in case the sound module goes on the blink.
You'd be better off to buy an inexpensive used module like the Roland JV 1010 for back up. In a live situation it would be much more reliable than any soft synth.
High quality (and relatively high price) full GM soft synth modules include Purity from Luxonix and Halion Sonic from Steinberg. Native Instruments also had one called, I think, 'The Band.'
Most soft synths are not GM compatible. I'm not sure whether Garritan is or isn't.
Are the sounds of the Garritan on a par with my Ketron external sound module.BERT
Don't have the Ketron, but from what I've heard about it ... probably not.
DF
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