Thanks guys, that's really helpful - got things a bit straighter.<br><br>So can I say for clarification (and I noticed it came up on an earlier thread when (of the top of my head) someone was asking why the attack settings didn't work for tracks and they had to use [env~] -<br>
vibrato<br>stabletime<br>minpower <br>growth <br><br>Have no effect when in 'tracks' mode./?<br><br>Not really sure what to do with the viola d'amore source sounds if they are just not going to be stable. Having the huge hop & npts settings seems kinda counter-productive and also introduces a significant delay. I guess if I want a smoother sound I could always sample and loop a small portion of the viola sound as he plays. My thinking atm is to go with the sound from sigmund 'cos that IS the sound.<br>
<br>BTW, I started out with fiddle~ and sigmund is much more responsive and more importantly better sounding.<br><br>Anyway back to the flags and my attacks and decays I guess.<br><br>Very best wishes,<br><br>Julian<br><br>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 16 February 2011 03:16, Miller Puckette <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:msp@ucsd.edu">msp@ucsd.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
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> > Perhaps this should be a new thread but why does sigmund have a frequency<br>
> > range of 100,000hz, and what would be a decent useable range from practical<br>
> > experience?<br>
><br>
> Strange - I never read that part of the help patch carefully. It's<br>
> even stranger because it actually says the default maxfreq is<br>
> 1,000,000 Hz, not 100,000. I'll assume there's a good reason for this<br>
> that I'm just missing. But otherwise I think I'm understanding that<br>
> setting in the same way you are: it puts a cap on the highest spectrum<br>
> component that you want [sigmund~] to report. Assuming that's<br>
> correct, I'd say you're safe capping it at 15kHz. That'll keep the<br>
> number of oscillators you need practical without losing serious high<br>
> end detail. But I think the best advice is to trust your ears...with<br>
> some sounds (like speech) you might not be disturbed if you cap it at<br>
> 10kHz.<br>
><br>
<br>
</div>The default maximum frequency of a million means that, on most existing<br>
audio hardware, there's effectively no limit. Sigmund~ can never<br>
report a frequency above the Nyquist, so unless the sample rate is more than<br>
two MhZ the Nyquist is the effective limit. It's usually OK to leave it<br>
at the default, but for some instruments the pitch output is more stable<br>
when it's set lower.<br>
<br>
cheers<br>
<font color="#888888">Miller<br>
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