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  • Performance Set ... easy ?

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    Hello,

    I have the Orchestral Cube and i'm looking for the Performance Set. My question is : how easy is the PS ?

    Thank you,

    Mathieu Laprise
    Sonomax inc.
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    In my opinion as easy as possible.
    OK, thats not very helpful. Our approach in designing our perfromance tools was, to make composing and working with a sequenzer more easy.

    The best example is our legato tool. The legato instruments have
    a complex mapping structure. 24 variations and more for only one key.
    But using this tool, you don't have to think about it. Simply play normally on your keyboard. Thats all.

    The Repetition tool looks similar to the alternation tool. Here you got a "realtime editing engine", you can define which parts out of a played phrase you want to trigger. You switche like in the legato tool between different keyswitches, but you are not triggering different multisamples, you are triggering different startpoints in one sample.

    So you have the full control over tempo and velocity using a played phrase. Again, you play like with multisamples and you get Repetitons without machine gun effects.

    best wishes
    Herb
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    So ... is it useful to buy it if I already have the Orchestral Cube ?

    Thank you,

    Mathieu Laprise
    Sonomax inc.
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    Syquest, the performance stuff is killer. Revolutionary. And the legato mode is real easy. Just turn it on and play - and you have a real instrument at your disposal[:)]
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    The performance cube is a must have IMO.

    Having both is obviously the best option. You get consistancy throughout, instead of mixing libraries.

    I agree with Simon tho, I believe the performance cube is revolutionary. The Orchestral Cube is a Huge sample library and is greatin its own right, but both together are one of the most amazing things I've ever encountered in the world of sampled instruments. No Joke, and no hype, jsut the truth.
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    I would add that the performance tool with legato has NEVER BEEN DONE in any form whatsoever. All legatos previously have been faked or non-existent. This is the first time ever that it is real, and as I said in another thread, legato is probably 50 to 75 per cent of musical expression. If you don't have that, you don't have true expressiveness. In fact, you don't have what the instruments really do in a basic way.

    There are other libraries out there with tons of samples - Dan Dean, Garritan, etc. but nobody else has this crucial element of music.
    Before the VSL came along I was wracking my brains about how to program it. I could figure out how to break it down musically and sample it, and was planning on doing it, but the programming was the stumbling block. And they have solved that brilliantly.

    I've been listening to more of the samples (I still have to absorb them for a while because it is an incredible wealth of sound) and they are so beautiful that the addition of legato will truly make this as musically powerful a sound as any number of live orchestras you could hear, let alone get to play your music INSTANTLY.
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    I just purchased the full set. But, the performance tool is not working for me. Also, I'm assuming that channel assignment is input on the tool set to my midi in device and out put is midiyoke. Then on Giga my input would be the midi yoke? So far nothing seems to work. Also I had a complete crash when I tried the demo before I bought the set. Seems that midi yoke doesn't work very well.