Peters Legato Script and Logic Sampler

Sounds really nice! Yeah, I think autosampler combined with EXS24 and scripts will open up all new worlds.

No, “ thanks Jay for asking Peter to do this “, Saxer?

Ashermusic said:

No, “ thanks Jay for asking Peter to do this “, Saxer?

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How could I forget you? Apologies!

Saxer said:

How could I forget you? Apologies!

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I'm late to the game, but from where can this script be had?

HeliaVox said:

I'm late to the game, but from where can this script be had?

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Took me a while to find this thread again (the reason I made a new one about this script). It was in the DAW section! Somewhere in the middle of this page...

Saxer said:

I'm blown away by the legato script Peter Schwartz gave us for free! It takes a bit of time (actually days) to adjust in combination with the Logic Sampler but here are strings resampled by Autosampler and built together in Logic 10.5. Very playable and they need close to zero CPU!

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What strings did you resample?

Land of Missing Parts said:

What strings did you resample?

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In the example above it's Berlin Strings. They are EQed heavily to match this old school style. Originally they are much brighter.

Saxer said:

In the example above it's Berlin Strings. They are EQed heavily to match this old school style. Originally they are much brighter.

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I may have to try this myself as one thing that has kept me from using Berlin Strings much is the RAM requirements of the library with Capsule. Still that would be a lot of resampling even with the autosampler...

Here's another string library created yesterday and today. It's a combination of different solo string libraries I have (three instruments per section) doubled with a flautando patch. It has a beautiful intimate quality. The solo libraries are from Spitfire, CSSS, Berlin First Chairs, and Light&Sound.

I do a lot of resampling, especially for „easy“ versions of sounds I use. For example harp: I have the Spitfire Harp and loading Kontakt takes 30 sec (first time Kontakt loading per song). It loads 3 mics and a lot of articulations I don't use. I just want fingered pluck. So I set the Autosampler to maybe 4 dynamics and wholetone sampling, a few seconds of sampling time and click „sampling“. Takes a while (coffee break) and thats it. From there I can load the harp into the logic sampler in no time. It's not the „full“ Spitfire harp but it sounds the same.

For the EULA nerds: I don't share the samples. I bought the licenses and the resampling process is just my kind of workflow.

Saxer said:

I do a lot of resampling, especially for „easy“ versions of sounds I use. For example harp: I have the Spitfire Harp and loading Kontakt takes 30 sec (first time Kontakt loading per song). It loads 3 mics and a lot of articulations I don't use. I just want fingered pluck. So I set the Autosampler to maybe 4 dynamics and wholetone sampling, a few seconds of sampling time and click „sampling“. Takes a while (coffee break) and thats it. From there I can load the harp into the logic sampler in no time. It's not the „full“ Spitfire harp but it sounds the same.

For the EULA nerds: I don't share the samples. I bought the licenses and the resampling process is just my kind of workflow.

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I’m happy to see this post because it reminds me that I want to figure out autosampler myself. And yes there are many commercial libraries that I think I could make more useful by making my own versions.

Do you find the set up takes long to get started? I see I commented her me back in May 2020 and I haven’t managed to make headway.

The sampling setup is rather easy. I load the track with the samples I want to resample. I open a bus and set it to 0dB (important… I often forgot that). Logic creates a connected aux track and I load the Autosampler into it. Now I have to set the note range, the round robins, sample length, loop, the number of velocity layers and the samples interval. That's mainly it. Give it a name and start the sample process.

There's some try and error with all the values.

Note length is the time the key is pressed but it still records until a certain threshold. Longer release source sounds needs less key pressed time.

Loop settings are sound dependent. For sustained sounds Penrose works mostly best. Crossfade works well for section/ensemble patches but the automatic loops are too short most of the time. Manual adjustment needed.

Percussion sounds are the easiest to sample. No loop, set the Autosampler to one shot. Done.

Round Robins doesn‘t work well in Logics Sampler. I hope they'll change that some day. Today the round robins work only monophonic with no overlapping. I sometimes work around by setting the velocity ranges very high. Even when the source material has only 3 velocity layers I sample 12 when there are round robins in the source. The 12 layers will have different round robins sampled and playing different velocities will trigger them by accident. Not very elegant but somehow it works.

This thread is a bit older (the velocity crossfades in the newer Logic Sampler work a bit different than in the older EXS version) but there's still a lot of info:

Saxer said:

This thread is a bit older (the velocity crossfades in the newer Logic Sampler work a bit different than in the older EXS version) but there's still a lot of info:

The EXS Dynamic X-Fade thread...

(I copied and edited this post from where it was buried in another thread) So, we all love how many Kontakt orchestral libraries use the mod wheel to smoothly crossfade through the various dynamic layers of samples, instead of using note velocity to do this. Although it's not immediately...

vi-control.net

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That’s a great thread!