DSoundTool 1.1 released

[Louis]

Finally I had some time and completed the new release of DSoundTool 1.10. As always, this is goodware: after an evaluation period you obtain the rights to use the tool by making a donation of your own choice to MSF or World Wildlife Fund.

An overview of the news:

• Added feature to play short demos of loaded sounds to get a better feel for the sound.
• Added possibility to eliminate leading silence in drum samples.
• By clicking on the name of the zone of a loaded sound, detailed information about the samples of that zone is shown.
• Various bug fixes, e.g. when splitting a sound, the velocity map was not correctly generated.
• Nicer user interface.

See http://www.shortestpath.se/dsoundtool/index.html for details.

/Louis

[Slap the drummer]

Fantastic, thanks Louis.
Have 2box had the wisdom to offer you a consultancy role yet?

I hope I've said this before but I'm going to say it again - without your Dsoundtool I would never
have been as happy with my 2box as I am.
So many, many thanks.

Cheers

[edtc]

Fantastic, thanks Louis.
Have 2box had the wisdom to offer you a consultancy role yet?

I hope I've said this before but I'm going to say it again - without your Dsoundtool I would never
have been as happy with my 2box as I am.
So many, many thanks.

Cheers

I totally agree ...

[Louis]

Thank you for those kind words 

[Baby Samus]

Fantastic, thanks Louis.
Have 2box had the wisdom to offer you a consultancy role yet?

I hope I've said this before but I'm going to say it again - without your Dsoundtool I would never
have been as happy with my 2box as I am.
So many, many thanks.

Cheers

+1.  I think everyone here feels the same!  In fact, why is Louis karma so low?  Send that Karma now!

[Jman]

Another 2 thumbs up from me. I just started using DSoundTool, but I've put some major mileage on it in a short time ... I guess about 2.5gb's of dsnd files created from samples already .... and DSoundTool is very straight forward and almost idiot proof  .... Thanks .... J

[edcito]

I have a couple of questions for Louis:

I want to convert some .wav files from BFD Eco which are in wav format already but when I try to generate the .dnsd I get the following error: "The file <filename>.wav has unsupported format: must be 44.1 Khz, mono or stereo, 16 or 24 bits"

I open the same file using Adobe audition to see the file properties and it shows:
* 44100 Hz, 16 bit, 7 channel.


Also I can't select a folder with many wav's, only one by one....
any ideas?

[Slap the drummer]

Louis is your man - but

7 channels is probably the problem?

[edcito]

Louis is your man - but

7 channels is probably the problem?

Yeah, I'm thinking that's the culprit too... Let's see what Louis have to say.

[edcito]

Well I've converted a BFD Eco kick sample to stereo and generate a dnsd but all I can hear now when loaded in my 2box is the right channel... from the left I only hear an annoying click.

I didn't resample and left it at 44100 Hz, 50%R 50%L

Well I think I found the problem:
I've had a look at the audio channel info of a kick in BFD Eco and found that each of the 7 channels have a different mic (obviously) like: "channel 0 -Overhead Left, channel 1 - Overhead right" and so on.
So when I convert it to stereo, who knows which channels my audio editor is picking? maybe it just picks randomly?

In that case which channels do I need to select from the 7 available? For this example let's use a kick:
channel 1 - Overhead left
channel 2 - Overhead right
channel 3 - room left
channel 4 - room right
channel 5 - snare bottom
channel 6 - kick in
channel 7 - kick out

My guts tell me that I should select kick in and kick out?

Geez, I may as well register for a course in Audio Engineering.....

[Louis]

I don't know BFD too well but it looks like you cannot just convert the samples from the wave files directly.

This is what you can do (this is just a sketch of the steps involved):
- open a "DAW" (music program) like Cubase, Logic Pro. Cheap alternatives are Reaper or Mixcraft, these have evaluation versions.
- in the DAW, make sure that BFD can be found as a vst instrument.
- create a midi track and use BFD as the VST player
- adjust the settings in BFD so the kick sounds just as you want it (equalizer, compression, etc)

- in BFD: check the midi note of the kick drum (that was the sound you wanted to create)

- in DSoundTool: generate a midi file for that midi note with for example 30 samples (menu Tools/Generate midi file)
- import the generated midi file in the DAW to the midi track that you created before
- in the DAW: record and bounce the midi track to a wave file (I would recommend 44.1 KHz, 24 bits stereo)
- in DSoundTool: create a kick sound, import the obtained wave file

It is quite some work and not very easy in the beginning, but the second time is already much easier.

Good luck!

[edcito]

thanks Louis, I'll give it a go today using Logic and let you know my findings.

[Jman]

I know that creating a dsnd for say a tom head zone .... I can load 99 files max. Just wondering if my understanding is correct for HH dsnds. Here is an example: I created a HH with 5 middle transitions. I assumed that for the Bow I could load a max of 99 files .... so just as a general rule I would divide those 99 files by 7 .... IE Open, Closed, 5 middle transitions .... so about 14 files per level ... maybe one less in one level, one more in another ... etc ... but a max of 99 .... Is that correct?  One of the reasons I ask is because I did one dsnd with 16 files per level with 5 middle transitions and it worked .... it was over 99 files.

[Daniel]

hey louis,

i have the same problem like with the older release "not enough memory" - especially when i want to put together some cymbals or hihats from different wavs.

i already played around with the memory settings, but i cannot get it to work.

cheers

[Slap the drummer]

I know that creating a dsnd for say a tom head zone .... I can load 99 files max. Just wondering if my understanding is correct for HH dsnds. Here is an example: I created a HH with 5 middle transitions. I assumed that for the Bow I could load a max of 99 files .... so just as a general rule I would divide those 99 files by 7 .... IE Open, Closed, 5 middle transitions .... so about 14 files per level ... maybe one less in one level, one more in another ... etc ... but a max of 99 .... Is that correct?  One of the reasons I ask is because I did one dsnd with 16 files per level with 5 middle transitions and it worked .... it was over 99 files.

Hi - no, it must be 99 per transition zone because I've made hihats like that without probs.