Re: Mutitimbral - A clarification, sort of
Re: Mutitimbral - A clarification, sort of
- Subject: Re: Mutitimbral - A clarification, sort of
- From: "Michael Olsen" <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2003 16:35:26 +0100
- Organization: IK Multimedia
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They had two reasons:- they want to be able to use multi-channel modules
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like DLSSynth, SampleTank and the Roland Virtual SoundCanvas modules
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without having to instantiate 16 plugins; and, for plugins like Native's
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B-4 which supports different MIDI channels for its lower and upper manuals
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and pedalboard.
As the developer of SampleTank, a multitimbral, multipart instrument, maybe I should say a few words here...
To me the clear advantage of multiparts for an instrument like SampleTank, which is essentially a sound module, is:
A: (As Angus says) you don't have to instantiate 16 plugins
B: The multiple parts can share the same voice manager. (This is very important in my opinion).
C: The multiple parts can share the same (build-into-instrument) effects (Admittedly, we don't do that in SampleTank, but some developers might want to).
As for (B) I have been complaining to just about any plug-in API developer that would care to listen, that there should be some way for multiple instances of the same plug-in to share an instrument manager. This is a quite advanced topic, and is not supported by any platform that I know of.
This just makes it even more important to do multi-parts instruments when doing something like a sound module.
Rgds,
Michael Olsen
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