Salamander Grand Piano velocity problem
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Salamander Grand Piano velocity problem
I love the Salamander Grand Piano sfz, it has a great sound and it works wonderfully with Carla.
However, there's a small tweak that bugs me:
When the sustain pedal is pressed and I play the same note twice, first with a high velocity, then with a low velocity, the new note "kills" the old note. That is, the sound drops down immediately, and somewhat unnaturally. This may be desirable in something like a synth, but in a piano sound it is annoying: that's not how a real piano behaves.
Does any of you know of a workaround? Is this something that can be changed in the sfz file, or maybe with some script?
My naive attempt would be "discard noteoff events when sustain is pressed", but idk if this may have any side effects.
Note that this problem is not inevitable: for example the plugin MDA Piano does not behave like this. (I know, it works differently, but still.)
However, there's a small tweak that bugs me:
When the sustain pedal is pressed and I play the same note twice, first with a high velocity, then with a low velocity, the new note "kills" the old note. That is, the sound drops down immediately, and somewhat unnaturally. This may be desirable in something like a synth, but in a piano sound it is annoying: that's not how a real piano behaves.
Does any of you know of a workaround? Is this something that can be changed in the sfz file, or maybe with some script?
My naive attempt would be "discard noteoff events when sustain is pressed", but idk if this may have any side effects.
Note that this problem is not inevitable: for example the plugin MDA Piano does not behave like this. (I know, it works differently, but still.)
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Re: Salamander Grand Piano velocity problem
It happens with Carla on my system, too, but not with Linuxsampler. It's obviousy not a problem with the Salamander sound font.paul wrote: ↑Thu Apr 08, 2021 4:02 pm I love the Salamander Grand Piano sfz, it has a great sound and it works wonderfully with Carla.
However, there's a small tweak that bugs me:
When the sustain pedal is pressed and I play the same note twice, first with a high velocity, then with a low velocity, the new note "kills" the old note. That is, the sound drops down immediately, and somewhat unnaturally. This may be desirable in something like a synth, but in a piano sound it is annoying: that's not how a real piano behaves.
Does any of you know of a workaround? Is this something that can be changed in the sfz file, or maybe with some script?
My naive attempt would be "discard noteoff events when sustain is pressed", but idk if this may have any side effects.
Note that this problem is not inevitable: for example the plugin MDA Piano does not behave like this. (I know, it works differently, but still.)
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Re: Salamander Grand Piano velocity problem
So you think it's a Carla problem? Shall we flag it in the appropriate channel?
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Re: Salamander Grand Piano velocity problem
If you use Carla as a sfz player then I recommend a bug report. But be sure to get the latest Carla. My Carla is a bit dated and when I compile new versions of Carla on my Xubuntu 16.04 then I can't draw connections on the canvas.
https://github.com/falkTX/Carla
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