its for sure not going to sound like 4 horns playing a chord, but not as big as 16 horns thats for dang sure. Add on top of it reverb and other things. Just lower the volume and mix/match solo/ensemble samples, even less like 16 [:)]

Herb's right that oyu need to pan them slightly different.

There are other issues that arise of course. As the solo samples are THE SAME INSTRUMENT, so no matter what you dont get the varied nuance of different instruments. This alone is one reason to mix ensembles if you dont have other solo horn samples (IMO). It may take some EQ and volume adjsutments (maybe only use the sparkle from the ensemble, or only the low mids, or a little of both..etc).

The only REAL issue with mixing matching ensemble of course is that you get that "chorus" sound on on note, but its usually buried enough, especialyl with reverb, to go unnoticed.

Herb & King

Thanks for help and suggestions.

Regards

Mirabile

I wonder if assigning the pitch bend wheel to the instrument and then re-tuning the notes of the four note chord to approximate "just intonation" instead of "equal temperment" would also help.
I keep saying I'm going to try this but I haven't - I can't stand the slow save/loads in the editor to set things up for every instrument.

slaroussels,

oh yes this will help [[:)]]. I suck so bad at doin this that I wont try tho [[:)]]

There are people who have gone in and done this (made tuning setups for each key via keyswitch. They seem to like it.

Wow, it would be great if one of them were willing to share their keymapping setup. It sounds much smarter than my manually controlled pitch wheel idea.

So you're saying this can be done directly in Gigastudio?

have a different tuning based on Keyswitches. Takes alot of time to do, as you have to have specific pitch/tuning information for every note. Thats why I never got around to trying it.

Jeff Hurchalla has done some work in this field too. Some interesting stuff involving the pitch wheel. When he first developed it I didn't understand it. Now, I get it [:)]

As part of Maple Tools? I tried to find a link for maple on google, but couldn't pull up anything unfortunately.

no no, it was somethign he was fiddling around with some time ago. Nothing released. Just ideas, he's another one of those people who comes up with crazy stuff because his mind jsut doesn't stop working.

What I love about this community and NS, is that I've met quite a few people like this here. Its really interesting, but I believe these sampling communities have their own little group of mad scientists...and I MEAN Scientists.....with emphasis on MAD! [:)]

@slaroussels said:

As part of Maple Tools? I tried to find a link for maple on google, but couldn't pull up anything unfortunately.

I know you probably don't need, anyway who knows. So here's the link:
http://www.marblesound.com/

Cheers

Thanks King and Markus.