So, I noticed something weird when designing sounds for my AR soundpack and need your help in figuring out whether it’s just my machine or in the software.
Loading the same sound on BD1 and SD1 results in slightly different sounds. On the BD1 pad, the parameter in the first row, second slot seems to be off by about two ticks from the sounds loaded on the SD2, RS3, and CP4 pads.
Load the attached sound on BD1, SD2, and RS3.
Do you hear a difference between BD1 and the others? I do.
If you could verify that for me, that would be really helpful!
This happens on any sound loaded to both BD 1 and SD 2 (and RS 3, CP4). The same sound loaded on the BD pad sounds different on the SD, RS, and CP pads. Again, it’s the second parameter in the first row of the “Synth” page that seems to be slightly off on the BD pad.
Can someone verify this by loading the attached sound to BD1 and SD2? @Ess : Have you had a chance to do this?
I suppose, but that doesn’t mean anything; the same sound loaded on BD1 and SD2 (and sometimes RS3) sound different.
What I need is to know whether this disparity occurs on all machines with this specific sound or just mine.
Anyway, here’s the attachment.
BD1, SD2, RS3 all have the same sound loaded; playing in sequence three times.
The first sound is not the one I uploaded, but shows how different the same sound on different pads can sound.
Note: all parameters are exactly the same.
Now, @Ess , is there any chance you could load this sound up and perform a similar test? Are the results similarly out of whack?
You’ll have to hope that @elektronauts can assist in uploading audio into a post, i haven’t seen this work yet in the new forum, may be simpler to host offline for now
It’s important to calibrate in 1.30 as some of the new machines rely on this; this was forced on you at install time, but did you leave the machine idle for 2+ hours to ensure it was properly ready for calibration ?
Yeah, right? It might be the pitch, but in my experimentation, it’s most likely the second parameter in the first row on the “synth” page, no matter the drum-model type.
Lots of cool sound like this, coming to an AR close to you, soon!
If anyone would like to experiment with the first sound in that little demo I uploaded, here it is: B021 SN THORHAMMER.syx (207 Bytes)
The difference is also quite clear on this one.
Interestingly, this patch sounds similar in pairs: BD/CP and SD/RS.
I can trace the issue (at least for this sound) to the LFO page; specifically, the multiplier. I have to change MULT to .1K on CP and BD to get the same result (MULT = .512) on SD/RS.
Hi @glitched !
I bought your soundpack a while ago and noticed this. Some presets sound different if loaded in SD. In BD RS and CP sounds right, but SD have a little tuning variation (+2) despite being the same settings.
Were you able to understand why? I thought it was a problem of my unit before reading this post.
What can I do? Recalibrate could help?
Thank you.
Well, on my unit it seems that this happens only with the BD FM machine and therefore the problem is not connected to the soundpack
Does anyone want to do a quick test please?
Load default kit, load a BD FM machine in BD1 track. Set decay to about 3/4 just to ear the tuning and copy/paste track1 sound in SD2 track. Do they sound the same?
Thank you very much for the answer. Definitely it does not depend on the soundpack, but it is thanks to it that I discovered this thing! I will try to contact support.
