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paspallum · Posted: Sun Apr 27, 2008 7:01 pm Post subject: Snare Pak samples for BFD2

Hi Guys
Paspallum here..... I haven't posted for over a year

I 've actually been using my Jamstix 1 but not really in the way it was intended (hence no need yet to upgrade to V2)

I've been lucky to have the use if a great drummer... who plays my 'e-kit' (Pearl rythm traveller kit..mesh heads - triggers - Alesis Dm5 midi out to computer - where it plays samples from BFD and Jamstix)

Like I always used to say, BFD has the best kicks and Toms... Jamstix snare pack is THE BEST it kick's BFD's snares to death (yes even with BFD 2)

So I still want to use Jamstix snare samples exclusively

Currently I have BFD AND jamstix's VSTi's open similtaneously... it works but gets confusing.

BFD2 has the ability to import wav drum samples.

I was wondering, since I purchased the Snare Pack from you and I own it, do I have permission to make 'hit's (samples) of each hit of snare from the snarepak (for my own use only) to import into BFD?

If so... can you offer me a suggestion of how many 'layers' I would be looking at 'capturing) I don't know if the Snarepak has 6 'layers' or 60??

And at what velocity level would each layer exist at?

Paspallum

Ralph [RZ] · Site Admin Joined: 02 Jan 2008 Posts: 13332

Hi Paspallum,
Great to hear from you!
Unfortunately, it would take a lot of time for us to provide you velocity layers and velocity levels for every sample in SnarePak (there are 538 samples). Our resources are strained as it is. Hope you can understand!
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paspallum · Posted: Mon Apr 28, 2008 3:21 pm Post subject: velocity levels

Ralph
Thanks for the reply
No I don't mean for you to do it all for me.

I can set up a midi based project in SONAR and just have each snare hit a differing velocity and then bounce them as waves and edit them in wavelab

I jus mean to ask, of each snare, approximately how many velocity layers are there? 6? 12? 36? 126?

If I know this I'll have an easier time....

Right now I could make 127 layers for each snare... but that does notmean that the snare pak snare started with 127 layers
Do you know what I mean?

I just need a figure

Paspallum

Ralph [RZ] · Site Admin Joined: 02 Jan 2008 Posts: 13332

The SnarePak snares have up to 7 velocity layers. The tricky part is that each velocity layer has up to 3 samples (alternate hits) and you cannot force Jamstix to play a specific hit since it will randomly choose. So, if you just sample 7 layers you will only have 33% of the true sample pool that is available to the Jamstix engine.
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Rayzoon Technologies LLC
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paspallum · Posted: Tue Apr 29, 2008 5:59 pm Post subject: OK...it's tricky

Thanks Ralph
No worries
I'll just keep using Jamstix as a 'super-sample-player' for my Snare Pak

Paspallum