JoeGBradford

Ah thanks I didn't know any of that - I should RTFM 🙂 I'll give those ideas a try. I wonder why velocity appears to work on the strings - unless the effect of increasing the attack makes them sound louder?

I have an orchestral project in Cakewalk by Bandlab which uses the Garritan PO for all instruments. I have just replaced most of the brass instruments as I had the Project SAM brass instruments in there and for some reason they do not appear to be generating any sound apart from the Tuba (another mystery!) The trumpets are too strident during most of the piece so I have tried to reduce their output by reducing their velocity in the automation window but they do not change volume - this work perfectly well in the strings and timpani where I have automated velocity previously. Any ideas most welcome!

I've just downloaded it - as mentioned earlier much of the stuff is in Kontakt Player and other freebies from NI but the good news is it doesn't install them again! The bad news is that when doing it's initial VST scan it locks up on Amplitube 4 so I've uninstalled that (I think there was an issue with my install anyway) and doesn't seem to want to load SampleTank3 or Miroslav2 😞 Not sure what it does with the VSTs yet - does it read their presets too? Still waiting for it to get through the scan!

Thanks from me too. I wondered how to have more than one open too. I often want to have two instances of IK Miroslav open so I can see the whole orchestra at once

Just downloaded this one - they have some great sounds in this free series

Thanks everyone for the new forum - looking forward to asking stupid questions and getting helpful answers from the great people who made the previous forum such a great place to learn from