Hello, I have a Nord Stage 2 which I’m looking to (eventually) ditch and move 100% to a controller keyboard with GigPerformer.
I’m getting there in terms of recreating the sounds I currently use for gigs in GP with various VSTs. However one thing I’m scratching my head with is how I can recreate / shift sampled sounds to be used from GP.
An example are the keyboard patches/sound effects for the track Uptown funk which I uploaded to my Nord from NSMP/NS2P files someone else created. I’m guessing these are Nord specific files and I’d have to hunt down some original source files to be able to then do something else? I really don’t know where to start with the process I’d need to take to have these (and future sound effect style sounds) available from GP. Ideally I’d love to lift-and-shift these (I’m just being lazy!) but I know that it’s likely to be more involved than that
You can connect your Nord via the Audio Interface to Gig Performer and do a resampling using the Auto Sampler Generator.
The recorded wav files you need to load into a Sampler VST.
For example the Decent Sampler or the well known Kontakt from Native Instruments.
Or you try to recreate that sounds via other VST instruments.
Hello, I’ve been trying to sample a patch on my Nord Stage 2 using the Auto Sampler and Decent Sampler to playback - I know I’m close but something still isn’t working.
Below is how I’ve wired things up - I can hear the sampler doing it’s thing and traversing the keyboard, so that seems to be fine.
In the folder where the samples are stored, I can see a catalogue of *.wav files and a *.dspreset file also exists. However, I noticed that all the files are the same size (1.9mb) and if I try and ‘play’ any of the wav files from within my mac finder, I don’t hear any sounds.
In the rackspace that I’ve created to load the sample, I can see the sample has been loaded in Decent Sampler, but playing any notes on my keyboard doesn’t generate any sounds.
Any help much appreciated - I feel like I’m very close but no cigar quite yet! thanks.
Ranj
Hi Paul - no, I don’t see movement on the Audio In panel while sampling. I’ve connected the 1/4" audio outputs of my Nord to the 1/4" inputs on the front of my Focusrite. thanks.
Do you hear any sound on your Nord when sampling?
And you did connect your Audio Out from the Nord doe your Scarlett Audio Interface?
When you play the Nord do you see any Levels on your Audio In in Gig Performer?
What version of Gig Performer are you using?
Hi Paul, thanks for your help, I’ve been doing more tinkering but still struggling to get this to work:
Do you hear any sound on your Nord when sampling?
yes, while sampling, I can hear the sampler traversing the keyboard from bottom to top.
And you did connect your Audio Out from the Nord doe your Scarlett Audio Interface?
yes, the 1/4" jack line outputs are coming out of my Nord into the 1/4" jack inputs on the front of my Scarlett interface. My Nord is connected to the scarlett by USB.
When you play the Nord do you see any Levels on your Audio In in Gig Performer?
no this seems to be a problem - I can’t see any Audio In levels in Gig performer while playing the Nord and I can’t figure out how to get this to work.
I installed GP some time ago - I can’t remember, but it’s highly possible that I declined the permission when it first launched.
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My samples are now created, but I seem to have a mapping issue in the *dspreset file. Any ideas as to why it’s been mapped in alphabetical order ie A#0, A#1 etc rather than in key order ie. A-1, A#-1. I couldn’t see any options that may have caused this. Obviously all the samples are accessible but in a very random order to what I expected! thanks
It was my bad - I resampled again and everything is working as expected.
I have a copy of the DecentSamplerXMLGenerator app which I’d also tried using before I posted to see if that made any difference - it looks like there could be bug in that as the ordering looks incorrect when compared to the one generated directly from GP.
Anyway, I noticed that I had also previously set the Lowest Note/Highest note range incorrectly so that may have also contributed.
May not be needed now as it’s all sorted, but in case you’re interested I’ve shared the dspreset files from both GP and the XML generator app.
