Lance Riley [Cakewalk]

daveny5
Is this the same as the DSF Steinway Grand Piano that I bought years ago that works with Sound Center (and now Rapture) or is this a completely new product?  
Thanks. 

This is a completely different pack made by SampleTekk. They use their own professionally recorded sounds created in their studio in Sweden.

Thanks for the info Lance.

Sorry - my bad. Didn't scroll down enough on the Rapture Session browser. All good
 
Hi,
 
I've bought the Sampletank Classic Grand - I own Rapture Session with Sonar Platinum - and have installed through the Cakewalk Command Centre, but can't see it when I open Rapture Session. I scanned for new VSTs, (although it didn't find any new ones - strange). Where do I look for the Sampletank product? I'm presuming that I insert the Rapture Session as a soft synth and it should be in the presets there, but it isn't. Any help would be appreciated.
Cheers
Dave

Hopefully "SampleTank" was a typo :)  An expansion pack doesn't install a new VST, it shows up in the left pane of the browser. Click on that, and the presets should appear.

Haha ... no, just a mistake Craig. I find I'm pretty good at making them : )
 
Thanks for the help - I realised I hadn't scrolled down far enough in the browser to find it.

The SampleTekk Classic Grand seems to be really heavy on resources!  It sounds good, but playing it on its own through Rapture Session I'm constantly getting clicks (worse when I use the sustain pedal), and the "Classic Grand Bright" program range drops complete notes at random.  When I run it through Sonar Pro, in addition to the clicks and dropped notes, it regularly crashes the sound engine (when playing this piano plus 2 other Rapture instruments simultaneously).
 
No other Rapture instruments have given me any trouble at all, so it's something specific to SampleTekk.
 
I'm running it at 44.1kHz through a UA-1G with buffering dialed up to max, on a Windows 10 quad i7 with 24Gb RAM plus SSD - what can I tweak to make it usable?  I've observed it's only using 1 of the 8 virtual CPUs, and using it heavily. 

Dropped notes is often an indication of to small a "Prepare using nnn millisecond buffers" setting in Preferences > MIDI > Playback and Recording. Try increasing the value from 250 to 500 or 750.
 
Sometimes running interface buffers to high can be a problem. Try reducing the interface buffer a little.

Thanks @scook, I increased the "Prepare using nnn millisecond buffers" setting and it did remove clicks during playback, even with buffering dropped back to default as you suggested.  It doesn't cure clicking when playing live, but it does allow me to build a cleaner track when playing back the MIDI score.
 
The STP Bright range is still dropping notes however.
 
Super-weirdly: I froze the piano track - so it pre-built the audio track without real-time constraints, so it should be perfect - and guess what?  When freezing it using the "STP Bright Hall" patch it STILL dropped notes!!!  Notes that all play fine when I use the "STP Classic Hall" (ie. non-bright) patches, or an external NanoPiano.  I am...perplexed.

Thanks for the info!

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