One thing that I’ve been noticing as of late, is how on some kits there could be quite a bit of noise. Compression makes it worse. In the film world, the higher end recorders have this thing called “mix assist”. In essence, what it does act as a gate with a smooth slew, that intelligently ducks inactive channels to reduce the combined noise floor of the tracks. So if someone is talking it’s at regular gain as set by the user, and when they are not, it’s all the way down. Something like this behind the hood of the AR would go a long way to mitigating the issue of noise from stacking voices that necessarily playing sounds.
not sure about your kits, but have you noticed that the noise is less prominent if you decrease DEC on the AMP envelope?
Most of it is caused be the amp envelopes being fully open even if nothing is playing.
The issue I’m describing isn’t caused by this in particular. After that happening to me once that’s the first thing I check.
There is one kit on the Reshaped Harmonics pack that has a noise floor of like -20db. It’s freaking loud! And it’s all the compressor and distortion, combined with the instruments gained down very low and using the compressor to bring the volume back up. Fixing the gain staging and making the compressor less aggressive resolves the issue more or less, but having inactive tracks turn themselves off when not in use would help as well. Not to mention it would dynamically save DSP allowing for more features to play out.