I'll have more on this soon but MarimbaLead has velocity..
Thank you, will look into this marimbalead preset later, once I'll deal with a more simple version.
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I have no idea why Audacity deceived me, but seems that the file that it produced was not PCM wav file, but something else.
Conversion via Switch Audio Converter to pcm 32 bit produced files without white noise
Basically I have to deal only with xml stuff for the initial playable version.
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Just a small quality of life tip to share - for editing multiple values of XML in once.
Notepad++ allows using regexp replacements, and that allows to do bulk parameter modification:
Replacing decayRelease=\"\d+\" will set decayRelease="100" everywhere as below, regardless of the initial value. (in regular expression mode). Using this a lot during my experiments, so I hope you might benefit from it as well.
Some taught about pan/hang drums.
Opposite to other instruments, they have longer sustain if your taps and bumps are short, and produce shorter and muted sound if you hold your hand.
I believe emulating this behavior is vital for the good tactile representation of pan/hang on orba.
Looks like I was able to achieve something like that with xml below:
<DrumPatch index="1" drumMode="0" ampVelocity="255" snapLevel="48" snapColor="1"
bendDepth="40" bendTime="142" modulationRatio="12" modulationDetune="32"
modulationDepth="69" modulationVelocityDepth="255" decayRelease="179"
decayHold="66" ensnare="0" grit="255" flamCount="0" flamRate="0"
fuzz="2" level="0" pan="0" tailLevel="173" tailDelay="0" tailDecay="195"
fx="0" note="31" midiNote="36" priority="0"/>
I am not still sure about how it works and what all the params mean, (i've borrowed most of the params from Ohm preset patch index 1, as one of the notes there works similar way to the desired one), but most probably decayRelease, decayHold and tailDecay are involved, and "release" means releasing the finger, and hold - holding the finger.
@Ignis32. I also use regex find/replace but I use SublimeText to do so. Very helpful when developing Presets with lots of samples as well! Eventually I think I'll create some kind of script to allow a user to create a sample pool and have it generate a base .artipreset file. There is no nice way to do this without a full-blown GUI solution but this would be similar to LogicPro or other DAWs and I don't think Artiphon has enough capacity to design something like that.
Nice findings on the DrumPatch attributes.. I wish they would publish some documentation on those. I have a feeling that they will need to create Orbasynth 2 to even make a basic version.
Nice. I've been struggling to get it to push the samples to the device unless I copy them to MSC manually. I think my machines are unreliable for serial file transfer. Also I realized I zipped in a bunch of .DSStore files by accident. They can all be deleted. Editing the factory and readOnly properties in the .artipreset file controls whether you can DELETE the Preset from the UI.
To confirm, you did not have to copy samples into MSC manually and the app synchronized on its own? I've had issues similar to "SubSkyKit". I've come to realize that it seems the app builds a cache of required files in "C:\Users\<USER>\Documents\Artiphon\Orba\app.properties" and it helps to remove it from there. I'm trying to figure out the process of distributing custom Presets but it seems my machines are not reliable :(
Chris Hernandez
Hi Artiphon,
Any updates on whether/when there will be added functionality to the Orba 2 app allowing for user-customizable drum presets? I realize there are only 2gb of space available, but would love even just 2-4 customizable preset slots on the desktop app where I could assign all 9 keys. I primarily use my Orba 2 for on-the-go songwriting, and having a drum kit that matches the sound(s) I'm going for would be huge.
I realize that in order for the functionality to fully transfer on iOS, the user would probably need to send the drum sample files with unmodified file names to the associated preset folder on their phone. I've already done this with custom bass presets from OrbaSynth and I don't think it would be a problem for anyone with mid-level technical prowess. I think this feature would exponentially boost the value of the Orba 2 for anyone interested in quick, on-the-go production.
I'm about to write another request/problem I'm having with OrbaSynth, which is otherwise incredibly useful from a production standpoint. Planning on making a youtube review video as well. Thanks for keeping the updates coming, super excited for what's to come!
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