Question about JABB Tuba

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2011/01/03 23:34:59 (permalink)

Question about JABB Tuba

Hi everyone. I am using the JABB Tuba (with Aria player) in a Dixieland piece buy finding it terribly out of tune on sustained and lower notes. Not as bad as a high school musical but not far off. Is there a fix? If not do you think that the VSL Tuba would be a worthy replacement? Just wanted to ask the question before I put in all the work of replacing only to find out that the tone is all wrong.






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    bmdaustin
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    Re:Question about JABB Tuba 2011/01/04 00:04:49 (permalink)
    The only fixes are available after the fact. The samples are what they are and I don't think Aria lets you alter them individually. Global pitch shift is easy, but note by note can't be done that way. I'd go ahead and create the entire track and then bounce it to audio and then apply some form of Auto-tune to the audio. Alternatively, you can go in and find each offending note and insert a MIDI pitch Bend event that will bring that note back into tune.

    VSL is probably better all the way around, but it may or may not fit the character of your piece. It shouldn't be much work to check it out. Copy the MIDI info to the VSL track and make the proper assignments. Shouldn't take more than a minute or two - and you'll have you answer.

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    Re:Question about JABB Tuba 2011/01/04 08:28:35 (permalink)
    Do you have GPO? and if so does it have a tuba sample/patch? I have GPO and some others but IDK since I never used the tuba.....

    Melodyning the audio is always an option if you have that as well. I use MD to fix lots of stuff.

    I'll be on the DAW later and I'll look at GPO.... DImpro & GPO on sale now at the cake store for $50 if you don't have them.  over 400 instruments..... just saying.

    EDIT: just checked...GPO has a tuba sample (not a patch)
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    Re:Question about JABB Tuba 2011/01/04 08:43:27 (permalink)
    Herb - JABB = Jazz and Big Band - it's a separate product from GPO, but both from Garritan.

    http://www.garritan.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=144&Itemid=56

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    Re:Question about JABB Tuba 2011/01/04 09:46:25 (permalink)
    ohhhhhh.....

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    Re:Question about JABB Tuba 2011/01/04 09:59:56 (permalink)
    I do have GPO but also VSL.  As suggested here I went and tried VSL.  The tuning was perfect but it also made JABB sound honky and harsh.  Dont know why I keep trying Garritan when I have VSL???

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    Re:Question about JABB Tuba 2011/01/04 12:14:04 (permalink)
    Sonically, Garritan can't begin to compete with VSL. They're aimed at two different markets.

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    Re:Question about JABB Tuba 2011/01/04 12:23:08 (permalink)
    I agree.  However I went with JABB first because the genre was Dixieland.  Nonetheless it cannot compete with VSL.  I have a trombone part as well.  I guess that I will go straight to VSL for that one.

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    Re:Question about JABB Tuba 2011/01/04 16:47:46 (permalink)
    Some of the JABB trombones may be better than the VSL for the style of music your doing.  My complaint in the VSL is the shifting of timbre between the velocity layers.  Some of the higher layers just drive my crazy tone wise. 

    The best for trombone is SampleModeling's The Trombone.   It has smooth seamless transitions between layers plus you can get realistic slide sounds.  Also, it has all the mutes including a very good plunger for those wah-wah effects.

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    Re:Question about JABB Tuba 2011/01/04 22:48:28 (permalink)
    +1 for Samplemodeling, especially the trombone. They've got a new soprano sax in the works that's amazing, too.

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