alex78 wrote:Still, what I’ve done hasn’t seemed enough to get a dependable sustain to loop, especially in the high register that has faster beats with the notes’ imperfections. I should try much longer recordings.
What I suspect is that you probably let the Sample editor apply the loop without fine tuning the start and end points yourself. I admit I spend a lot of time with each idividual note in order to adjust the loop points so that the beats are not audible.
Here is a video about the sample editor, at about 7:30 he is showing how to adjust the loops. Hope it helps.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLiaEF4Jhw0
I look forward to studying the video you gave for help. I spent a lot of time fine tuning the start and end points of each note's loop, but I think my problem was the original tone had a couple oscillators which were slightly detuned, and they added some natural beating between oscillators. This became faster in duration the higher the pitch. This wouldn't be a noticeable problem playing on the Voyager itself, but when translated to a sample it made it problematic finding a loop point that didn't seem like an unnatural lfo cycling back, if that makes sense. And maybe I should have used the whole duration minus the cutoff.
So, I think recording much longer samples might help, or eliminating the detune or even adjusting the detune up the scale to keep the pitch beating more manageable as pitch increases. In some ways, the end result worked out okay and provided some variation that almost mimics envelope or lfo variation that might occur in a vintage instrument.
And thanks! Your collective suggestions have helped to process the situation.