How can you reduce round robins in MuseSounds?
My question is if it is possible to reduce the number of round robins currently to make playback more accurate. I can understand their use in big symphonic settings, but it's just plain irritating when the soloist flubs their notes. The setting I'm trying to write for is professional performance, but with obvious errors in performance its difficult to cope with.
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This is a new term to me.
Please define "round robins".
In reply to Please define "round robins". by xavierjazz
Opps. I mis-posted to this location.
In reply to Please define "round robins". by xavierjazz
As an example... when hitting a snare drum, the snare samples will have slight variations. After all, a drummer does not hit the snare in the exact same spot each and every time. So, to more closely simulate realism, the "round robin" playback uses these slight variations in a fixed routine of succession.
For pitched instruments, some sampling variations may seem deviant. The OP wrote: "it's just plain irritating when the soloist flubs their notes."
Also mentioned here:
https://musescore.org/en/node/338796#comment-1157313
In reply to Please define "round robins". by xavierjazz
It's a music tech term, a variation on a note to avoid a mechanical sound and to make it sound more natural. For the specific example that bothers me: During a quiet section of a piece, a flute player transitions from A natural to B natural and flubs the note like there was a sticky key (something that would and does happen IRL). The thing is, this is a fairly amateur mistake that you would NOT want on a professional recording.
In reply to It's a music tech term, a… by K.J. Coleman
See also https://github.com/musescore/MuseScore/issues/14060 for similar issues with Muse Sounds clarinet.
There has been some slight improvement with recent updates of Musescore or is it perhaps updates of Muse Woodwinds? Or is it my recent hardware upgrade? Or have I just given up hope and begun to ignore it? Whichever, the squawk is still there on some intervals.
I am not really sure where this should be reported - Github (where it is currently) or MuseSounds.
@K.J. Coleman: Are you referring to sampler "round robbins," as possible in Kontakt and in Logic?