Synclavier Regen User Manual
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velocity, the range controls on the patchlists have been
used to filter for the note played.
And you don’t necessarily have to crossfade for a multi-sampled instrument to
sound authentic. Have a look at the Crossfader of Tongue Drum [RW 2-1] and
you’ll see the partials are either on or off for a given velocity — this works well
for a set of samples whose character of sound varies substantially from one level
of velocity to the next. For greater realism, velocity is also mapped to volume
with a Modulator (covered in the next section). NB: The partials of Tongue Drum
all reference the same soundfile, but at different starting points, as the soundfile
is a recording of the same note of a tongue drum being hit successively harder.
Regen is smart enough to only keep one copy of the soundfile in memory when
using this timbre.
Another example of using the Partial Crossfader for velocity that’s worth
some examination is Tympani Fest [RW 6-7]. In the image below, you can see
how the harder you strike a key, the more partials are added (and the louder the
sound), but none are removed.