New Nord Sample Library?

[WannitBBBad]

Would „round-robin samples“ mean that putting a brass sample in unison mode (or doubling it on the second slot) actually results in a fat brass sound, and not an ugly, phasing mess?

I had to look it up as I was wondering about round robin as well:

"Round-robin is simply a way to let sample developers play back a different sampled version of the same sound each time you hit the same key, so that just like most acoustic instruments each note sounds slightly different for more realism."

I can't wait to hear this! If the designation of multiple samples for the same note is embedded within the NSMP4 file, then it's possible the new Sample Editor has that capability and folks can be digging into it. Take care.

PS - I agree about Unison mode - it can really sound bad on samples, especially any with multiple instruments or chorus-type effect.

[FZiegler]

We will see if using the new unison feature with multiple samples will bring up a whole orchestra at once. Which is certainly not what I would want. But there will definitely be different needs out there...

[StrangeAeons]

Some samples are actually smaller (e.g. the electric guitars), whilst many others (mainly the synths) have the same weight. It might be an even more efficient compression algorithm. Since the "multi" thing only concerns, for now, a couple brass samples, it might merely refer to those new patches (they could have sampled different sax playstyles across the keyboard, since the lowest and highest octaves are unnaturally stretched on the current samples).

[skyko]

Nord Piano 5 Factory Content is exclusively made up of V4 samples: https://www.nordkeyboards.com/sound-lib ... ory-sounds

I guess that counts as supporting Nord Sample Library 4.0 ...

[Projet Xion]

It seems to be possible to download the samples from the Nord sample library 4.0 page.

Has anyone tried ? I wonder if it worth it to replace the samples 3.0 from my NP4 to the 4.0...

[Projet Xion]

It seems to be possible to download the samples from the Nord sample library 4.0 page.

Has anyone tried ? I wonder if it worth it to replace the samples 3.0 from my NP4 to the 4.0...

Read my earlier response to this thread. You can download them, but instruments other than the NP5 will need an update it appears-

-dj

[analogika]

It seems to be possible to download the samples from the Nord sample library 4.0 page.

Has anyone tried ? I wonder if it worth it to replace the samples 3.0 from my NP4 to the 4.0...

From the first page…

I tried to load one of the samples into my NS3 using the current version of Sound Manager, but it looks like it is not a supported file type yet. Tried my NW2 as well, didn't work in that unit either. Probably we will need an OS update to both units to use the new V4 files-

We can assume that software updates are imminent for the machines other than the NP5 listed as supporting 4.0 samples, because none of them do, currently.

[skyko]

We can assume that software updates are imminent for the machines other than the NP5 listed as supporting 4.0 samples, because none of them do, currently.

Nord may want to rework and republish the factory content too. It makes sense to show off the new samples on the other instruments too (not only on the NP5).

[Spider]

Guys, the whole 4.0 library is still not official i.e. not listed in the main Nord Sound Libraries page https://www.nordkeyboards.com/sound-libraries so why hurry and not just wait...?

[analogika]

Guys, the whole 4.0 library is still not official i.e. not listed in the main Nord Sound Libraries page https://www.nordkeyboards.com/sound-libraries so why hurry and not just wait...?

Well, it’s not like we have any choice BUT to wait…

But speculation is fun.