what happened to GPO for Dim Pro?

wasn't this supposed to be arriving about now?

is there any possibility that
http://www.garritan.com/jazz.html

(Jazz and Big Band Horns)
might see a Dim Pro version?
my credit card would jump out of my wallet at that prospect

Jazz and Big Band are nice. Worth the money.

Cheers,

Russ

I can't speak for the DimPro version, but the current versions (with NI player interface) have all hit the bottom price ($139) on the current group buy. It ends December 21st.

https://amerifare.cybrhost.com/harps/GroupBuyForm-122006.php

Doug

I was unaware of the group buy on the one 'instrument' I really want.
on the one hand this is good news, on the other the Christmas lists are distributed already and this will require some negotiation with Mrs Claus

Merry Christmas

ORIGINAL: holymoly
If any of you are also members of NorthernSounds forum - bump up my thread and let's see if Gary or someone from Garritan will finally answer this dinosaur of a question.

DONE

I have GPO and would be really interested in GPO for Dimension Pro to.
I wonder what the cross upgrade price would be.
The group buy for The JABB going on now is really itching at my wallet as is the Violin Double wammy for the wallet

Ed

Yup....bummer. I really don't like the Kontakt engine...

Yes...according to this thread the K2 update is still on the way: http://www.northernsounds.com/forum/showthread.php?t=49105&page=7

I'd love it if this was a huge update that solved problems and turned me into a proponent of Kontakt 2. We'll see...

This is pure guesswork and has no basis in fact, but I suspect that when CW announced the Garritan Big Band and GPO updates that were due out at the end of the year that NI spoke with Garritan and asked them to pull out. Since the main people to lose out on the sales would be NI since less people would buy the Kontakt version of it. This would also explain Cakewalks and Garritans apparent silence on the matter.

Hmmm, conspiracy theorists of the world unite.

Its probably untrue but at least it is plausable.

The other possibility is that to sell GPO commercially there may have been too little added content to warrant the cost of someone buying it as an upgrade. That doesnt give a reason why big band (which was announced at the same time) isnt being sold. As to NI Kontakt , in a side by side comparison with the expression engine I think it would be found wanting. Kontakts aliasing in the one study I could find was particularly awful.

DS864


Reasons NN19


Native Instruments Kontakt


RGC Audio SFZ (The precursor of Dimension and Rapture)


As you can see from the amount of ghost notes floating around Kontakt is nearly as bad as the DS864 that came with Project5 V1. Whereas the NN19 is getting better, but the expression engine is quite simply the purest sampler you can get your hands on. If developers of sampler libraries get wind of that then there may well be a shift from Kontact based sample libraries. That would mean an awful lot of lost revenue for NI.

Info taken from

http://www.discodsp.com/highlife/aliasing/

ORIGINAL: xylyx


Furthermore, isn't the above test moot when every note has been sampled? The above only shows when re-pitching a sample, correct?

Aliasing is a type of distortion, introduced by having signal components above Nyquist. As any distortion, it is composed of tones or noises not present in the original signal.

No, its because of the signal processing of the sample that the ghost notes occur. It has nothing to do with the resampling, its all to do with the playback and the internal processing that is done by the plug in. So everytime you play a note in Kontakt you are playing a distorted version of the original sample, whereas in Dimension you are getting (pretty much) the original sample.

As you can work out , for purists, Kontakt just doesnt cut it, since the playback of the sample is anything but a copy of the original.

Is it possible that the sample content for the this could be converted to sfz? A simple conversion from the Kontakt format to sfz? Or is all the Garritan content closed for this type of conversion. Since Dpro will be expanded this should be covered at some point. It just seems logical that cakewalk would expand the base sound set. But such lofty goals do take time

People wint Intel-Mac's are already getting bitten by Kompakt player instruments that don't have UB versions - one guy paid a bundle for Colossus but it won't play on his new machine. I'm glad DimPro doesn't have such silly DRM on the content.

Doug

ORIGINAL: lawapa

Is it possible that the sample content for the this could be converted to sfz? A simple conversion from the Kontakt format to sfz? Or is all the Garritan content closed for this type of conversion. Since Dpro will be expanded this should be covered at some point. It just seems logical that cakewalk would expand the base sound set. But such lofty goals do take time

http://www.chickensys.com/products/translator/windows.php?sw_name=Translator+Pro

That might be able to convert it to sfz for Dimension. The free version should be enough(ive converted Battery 2 kits to SFZ), if anyone who has GPO wants to try. If you do let us know how they sound in Dim Pro.

FRom the Chicken Systems Translator update text

Listing of features/fixes implemented since version 2.9 Build 54
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Added several ->SampleTank 2 enhancements
Added Option for ST2 Macro Knobs
Added Option for HALion Current Amplitude Release Trigger mode
Added XV merging capacity
Improved ->Fantom beta capability
Fixed .nks (Kompakt monolith files) support
Improved right pane interface in Details section

Note the 2nd last one.