Reply To: New SoundPaint V 4.0 FREE – More Than a Dozen Free Deep Sampled Instruments

[locrian]

Hey Peter,

Sorry to hear about the health emergency.

Regarding Soundpaint, none of the 21 libraries I own have any discernable timbral variation including Bazantar Bass, 1975 Soul Guitar, Terz Guitar, Songwriting Guitars, 1976 Rhode Vintage MK1, 1928 Vintage Grand Steinway, 1967 Clarinet Paris, SoundLabs Music Box, etc.  In fact, I’ve never heard a Soundpaint lib *with* timbral variation. Playing Soundpaint to me is like using a loop/sample launcher set to max velocity.

This issue is not new.  It was (hotly) debated on VI-Control a while ago.  IIRC, the problem is that, although Soundpaint is new, the sound content it uses is derived from fairly old libs which were recorded with little or no timbral variation (probably to save time and memory [though 8dio libs are famously *huge*]).

Soundpaint is supposedly capable of interpolating across all 128 levels of MIDI velocity yet, sadly, its sound content is devoid of timbral variation, so there’s nothing to interpolate.  I think filter ADSR was used to simulate timbral variation.  This was commonly done decades ago to reduce RAM usage.

The Soundpaint situation is like spending years to create the most aerodynamic plane that completely eliminates drag, but then building it out of cast iron.

Cheers…

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