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tsss27 wrote:It's a crossfade, so say you have an instrument with a soft and hard velocity. You would velocity morph the layer volume and possibly other parameters too like filter cutoff. Morph the soft layer to go quieter as velocity increases, and do the opposite for the hard layer; the hard layer should be set at 0 or close to it and the soft one should be set at the maximum volume you wish to have it played at.
This approach is very difficult. There is no smooth transition between the samples as there is in a multi-sampled instrument. I have experimented with it on the Wave 2 and have concluded that its velocity switching feature is not seamless enough for this purpose. It is fine for triggering a horn stab or strings from a piano patch, but it is just not smooth enough to load 4 different samples of the same instrument and have it play naturally like a multi-sampled instrument. Maybe you have had better luck?
-dj
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Not for all 4 layers, no. I was hopeful of this but for 2, or possibly 3 (with the knowledge that you will not be able to completely isolate each layer from the others) it can be done. I think 2 is by far the safest strategy; you can morph various parameters to help blur the 2 together (filter settings, even parts of the amp envelope for some sounds.) I have a Wave again for now (just received it 5 minutes ago in fact) so maybe I can try and record some examples later on...
