Jerry Gerber

I finally found the problem and resolved it. Thanks Starship Krupa for steering me in the right direction. The VSL library comes with what's called the Directory Manager. In this utility, is a setting called "Pre-Load", which allows you to choose how many samples from each sample set (i.e. brass samples, string samples, etc., whatever samples you've installed on your machine) you want to load at start-up. At some point long ago I may have changed each sample set to 2048 samples. I forgot about this setting. and had never thought to change this. When I changed every sample set to load 8192 samples, the problem I explained above disappeared. I still have over 19GB of free RAM. If you ever run across the same problem, consider looking at how many samples are being loaded into memory at startup. Jerry www.jerrygerber.com

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Thanks, I appreciate the offer. I want to first talk to Leandra (the singer) to see what she thinks. Personally I don't think it's a problem at all but I don't want others to think it is if it detracts from the piece. On the other hand, my critics are going to be my critics no matter what I do, so there's that to consider!

Hi Bjorn, New technology is making astrophotography a bit easier. The most difficult challenge I faced are the sky conditions where I live in San Francisco, California. Nearly constant fog and wind (I don't live far from the coast) became very discouraging. So I put my 130mm refractor at a dark sky site in New Mexico, about 900 miles from where I live and I control everything now remotely by computer. I don't have to carry equipment and set up every time I image, it's all ready to go on a permanent pier. Glad you enjoyed the piece! Jerry

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Hey Gary, Do you think I should ask my vocalist to re-record the places where there's some clipping? Did it detract from the artistic communication? I'm wondering because if you heard it others with trained ears will also... Thanks, Jerry

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Thank yo Starship Krupa for responding. Yeah, other instruments are playing, including cellos and basses before the glitch happens. I'll have to check to see of the articulation that has the glitch was played earlier in the piece. I mean that the 2nd computer is dedicated only the VSOC samples. It's connected via MIDI over LAN, with the DAW sending MIDI data to the 2nd computer which plays back the samples and sends the audio over ADAT back to the DAW. I'll investigate further and I posed on VSL's forum. I am not sure if VSL is even supporting the Cube anymore... Jerry

Hi Gary, Yes, I think there is a very tiny amount of clipping at that point. I discussed with my vocalist and we decided it wasn't enough to re-record the track. Your system may also be contributing as I am listening right now over headphones on my laptop and to my ear it's not enough to detract from her expression and beautiful voice. I don't think it's the reverb (Lexicon plate plugin) but rather in the recording itself. We took 8 takes of that section and the one I chose is the best overall in terms of expression, phrasing and diction. Leandra has a very powerful voice (she sings with the San Francisco Opera)! I had my compression set to 4:1, kicking in at -2dB, but somehow her voice overwhelmed it As the saying goes, the perfect is the enemy of the good, so unless we can re-record it at another time, I will leave it for now. By the way, if you are listening with Dolby Atmos, it will definitely cause issues. Atmos screws up every recording I make. Unless a recording is made with it, it absolutely sucks. I turned it off on my laptop as it's useless for music that is recorded without it. Best, Jerry

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Thanks Tom, glad you enjoyed it..