Piano sounds on Dimenson Pro

hello again Mike

try messing with the gain on EQ 2 if that's what you mean.. try -12 / - 15 db .. you should notice the sound change.

which octave are u on about , the high up sounds, like c5 etc?

tricky really as I use a number of things with piano sounds (that I had before getting cake pro), so it depends on the situation, on my laptop rig where the cpu is less I go for the more basic sounds that take less memory / cpu .

I use DP really for the electronic type sounds , pads, leads etc. mainly though.

I did listen to it, "grand piano 3V M3" and the sim version? earlier..I didn't notice a bell type sound, but did notice a far lower rumble due to the gain, that went after adjusting. I'm running it thru sonar, although your have cubase if memory serves? I was too lazy to go and get my cubase dongle from upstairs to see if there was a difference, although they should play both exactly the same. I'll try tomorrow if I get a chance. There are no fx running either right?

as for the cpu , try upping your buffers / latency a bit or the samples, u run asio I assume? and the latest patch for cubase.. on my AMD x2 it made the cpu drop by a lot.. as long as you keep it within sensible bounds, say under hhmm 20-24 then you should notice an improvement in how much the cpu has to do, but thats partly to do with the VST being used and how complex a patch is (a common balancing act for anyone who uses things that test the cpu power) . do you ever use the performance bar ? off the top of my head it's f12... that's the problem with all these programs , trying to remember 1001 different short cuts.

your running a decent enough pc spec , memory wise , soundcard wise? as you don't say in ya sig or profile.

Yeh i run asio and when i had the performance bar on it was spiking very briefly which is when i was hearing the glitches in sound. It really is a quick spike that occurs. I ended up switchihng off all background progs and going to control panel - system and changing my priorities from visual to performance. These things helped but i can't remember it being this difficult in the past using extacly the same hardware and computer.

My soundcard is a E-mu 0404USB and on Cubase 4 my buffer size is 2ms and the bit depth 32-bit. THis sound ok ? Or is it this buffer size that i should increase to free up some cpu ?

as for the latest cubase patch....i have version 4.01...now i know theres a newer version out but because i use XP64 Pro I tend to have problems finding progs that work and I don't want to install an update if it's not compatible with my OS. I posted a message about this on the cubase forums but didnt really get a clear response...seemed like a guy was just trying to sell me Vista64 bit :p:

http://forum.cubase.net/phpbb2/viewtopic.php?p=764093&sid=5a17ddfb3cd02677ae002554c4af3d35

as usual Tom (b-rock) is a mine of information . Interesting , I didn't know that.

the thing with 24 bit and 32 bit has been discussed on here in various places before Mike, I only go up to 24 bit on my machine as the difference between the 2 isn't so great. Besides mixing / dithering down things, from 24 to 16 is good enough. (although maybe others might say different) .

as for the 64 bit thing, I played it safe and stuck with 32 bit as I've got enough headaches without more.. The thing when I was doing my updates in the past, I always noticed "64 bit preview" whatever the heck a preview is.

See this thread for a pretty good piano in soundfont (.sf2) format for under $20:
http://forum.cakewalk.com/tm.asp?m=1454873

You can convert this piano to .sfz format using sfzedit.

Regards, lightninrick