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DECEMBER/JANUARY 2005/6 - VOL. 1 NO. 3

THE WORLD OF SOFTSYNTHS AND SAMPLERS

Cakewalk’s Project5 all-in-one workstation

A Very Deep Clinic

GigaStudio:

behind the

revolution

Sampling

Native Instruments

Kontakt 2 sampler

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The Making of

The New

Editor

instruments revolution that caused you to be reading

this magazine. One, of course, is that personal com-

puters have enough power to run V.I.s.

The other is The New Sampling—large, disk-streaming

sample libraries, or modern sample libraries as we refer to

them. That revolution started after Nemesis GigaSampler

(now TASCAM GigaStudio) came along a few years ago, and

we’re happy to be able to present an interview with the peo-

ple who invented Giga: Jim Van Buskirk and Joe Bibbo.

Today, modern sample libraries either come in their own

V.I. players or they’re programmed for specific sampler

platforms—as you can see from the reviews in these pages.

(Some people differentiate between the two by calling the

player versions V.I.s, but around here we don’t bother.)

Either way, it’s fair to say that as wonderful as sampling

technology is, many of the more advanced libraries have

been ahead of their performance interfaces for some time.

Modern sample libraries usually have lots of articulations to

choose from, and the available means for choosing the

right ones in real time have been limited; making sample

libraries sing is usually as much a matter of programming

as it is playing.

That’s about to change. Among other tricks you can

read about in this month’s Trends column (page 64),

Vienna Symphonic Library’s new Vienna Instruments player

loads as many articulations as you need for an instrument

in one instance of the plug-in. It puts everything on one

sequencer track and one MIDI channel; that lets you select

articulations on the fly.

But the really interesting trick is that it automatically

switches to the right articulations a lot of the time. It does

that by sensing whether you’re playing legato, repeating

notes, playing a pattern or trill, or—and this is the clever

one—it knows how fast you’re playing, and from that it

knows whether to play a shorter or longer articulation.

Now, that doesn’t mean the whole problem is solved.

You’ll still have to do some programming, if for no other

reason than that it may take more than ten fingers (and

one brain) to deal with all the switching you need to do in

spite of VSL’s performance detection. But this is a pretty

exciting step in the right direction.

And the best part is that it’s already possible to incorpo-

rate some of these ideas using existing tools such as Giga

and Native Instruments Kontakt 2. If history is an indica-

tion, we can also expect to see leapfrogging advances in

other sample players. East West has already announced

that their upcoming player will include speed-sensing and

other innovations, for example.

2006 looks like a very exciting year for our industry. All

of us at Virtual Instruments wish you a happy, healthy, and

prosperous one. VI

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