dgburns
software surfer
Hidey Hey Hidey Ho! Gigasampler here we go...
In this lockdown madness, I decided to revisit my old Larry Seyer Drum lib. The one that’s Gigasampler only. Turns out it sounds pretty darn good. So I think to myself... ‘self, you should convert this to kontakt so you can get out of gigasampler land.’
Sounded like a good idea at the time.
Turns out I found out about a few things I didn’t know about before. Converting to kontakt is not so straight forward. Two issues came up. One is something called ‘accelerated waves’, or aka compressed waves, the second and more difficult is the gigapulse convo verb.
I tried every converter I had access to, Translator, Cdxtract, and Exs. Does the new Logic sampler even convert giga anymore? Turns out they all failed because of the compressed wave files. Garth at Translator was ‘kind enough’ to let me know no converter will convert them out. So this meant opening all the giga intruments in the giga editor and batch saving out the audio as non-compressed. All 183 of them. One ... at a ... time. One week later...
Then it came time to try and reverse engineer the room impulse from gigapulse. Not so easy. Impulse response utility from Apple does not appear to record more than one channel at a time. Maybe it’s my Catalina MP2019 system, dunno, but it no workie for me ( and I have used it alot on Past systems with no issues ) The original Larry Seyer drums sound was very much about those inserted room responses, and they sound great. Those cymbals and hats are gold. Better the anything else I have, imho.
So, would be grateful for anyone who knows an app that can record impulse responses, and deconvolve them out to IR files on MAC.
Anyone?
In this lockdown madness, I decided to revisit my old Larry Seyer Drum lib. The one that’s Gigasampler only. Turns out it sounds pretty darn good. So I think to myself... ‘self, you should convert this to kontakt so you can get out of gigasampler land.’
Sounded like a good idea at the time.
Turns out I found out about a few things I didn’t know about before. Converting to kontakt is not so straight forward. Two issues came up. One is something called ‘accelerated waves’, or aka compressed waves, the second and more difficult is the gigapulse convo verb.
I tried every converter I had access to, Translator, Cdxtract, and Exs. Does the new Logic sampler even convert giga anymore? Turns out they all failed because of the compressed wave files. Garth at Translator was ‘kind enough’ to let me know no converter will convert them out. So this meant opening all the giga intruments in the giga editor and batch saving out the audio as non-compressed. All 183 of them. One ... at a ... time. One week later...
Then it came time to try and reverse engineer the room impulse from gigapulse. Not so easy. Impulse response utility from Apple does not appear to record more than one channel at a time. Maybe it’s my Catalina MP2019 system, dunno, but it no workie for me ( and I have used it alot on Past systems with no issues ) The original Larry Seyer drums sound was very much about those inserted room responses, and they sound great. Those cymbals and hats are gold. Better the anything else I have, imho.
So, would be grateful for anyone who knows an app that can record impulse responses, and deconvolve them out to IR files on MAC.
Anyone?