Key groups

Ricardo · Post by **Ricardo** » Wed Nov 13, 2002 8:13 am

I'm probably not thinking straight, and I'm definitely not an STS expert, so excuse me if I sound really stupid. I just bought a really nice CD of orchestral wav. samples but don't know how to get/record the different key groups into one sample so that I can play more than one octave without it sounding crap. Can anyone please help.
P.S. does this make sense?

spacef · Post by **spacef** » Wed Nov 13, 2002 3:22 pm

I'm not an STS xpert but what you can do is group several samples in keygroups .
I don't think you can load keygroups in a sample..

In one program (instrument), you load a sample in the keygroup window and you can set the keyboard range/root key of that sample, and do the same for other samples etc.
hope it helps

Herr Voigt · Post by **Herr Voigt** » Wed Nov 13, 2002 8:06 pm

Ricardo, did you want to say that you do several keygroups in a MULTISAMPLE? That makes sense. I would say, only with a multisample you can make good sounding tracks. If you have good orchestral samples, I'm sure you have wav-files like "violin c3", "oboe g#4" etc. Put ALL wav-files of one instrument in a multisample and give every sample his own keygroup. Be sure that nothing is overlapping.
Hope I could help, Thomas

Ricardo · Post by **Ricardo** » Thu Nov 14, 2002 7:32 am

So let me get this straight in my head. If I have a .wav file that has violin E0,G0, A#0 etc. I cut each wave envelope into separate files and add them to a multisample with their own keygroups. Then I save the whole thing as 'violin.sts' for example.
Thanks for your input, this forum is excellent!

Herr Voigt · Post by **Herr Voigt** » Thu Nov 14, 2002 9:23 am

You're right, Ricardo. And always give attention on the root key of every key group, otherwise you have unwanted tranpositions.
Have fun, Thomas

Ricardo · Post by **Ricardo** » Sat Nov 16, 2002 6:49 am

OK I've got it happening! Thanks again to you both.