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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That sounds plausible. I'll have to check to see if the VSL player has an option to load all samples at startup. I'm pretty sure though that the pizz basses and cellos do come in before that point. Thanks for replying!

I'm not sure if this is a hardware or software issue. When I open a file and play it, the first time it plays there's a glitch in the cellos and/or basses at measure 69 (the work is in progress and I am up to around measure 130 or so). But if I go back and play just those measures or the entire sequence, it plays fine for the entire session. I've done a check on my hardware in terms of how well it's able to handle audio and everything looks good. Though I've been managing a studio for nearly 40 years, I'm really stumped as to what causes this. My DAW is connected to one other machine that is dedicated to the Vienna Symphonic Orchestral Cube. DAW: Windows 10, i7 CPU, 32 GB RAM, 2 SSD drives 2nd Computer: Windows 10, i7 CPU, 32 GB RAM, 3 SSD drives The two computers are connected via ADAT, each machine has a dedicated sound car, the DAW has an RME UFX II and the 2nd computer has a MOTU LP32. I've tried changing the audio buffers from 512 to 1024 but that doesn't resolve it. These are dedicated computers, used for nothing but music production. I really don't know if this is an audio glitch or a MIDI glitch. It sounds like a note gets cut off and I hear a little short "pop". As I said, this only happens once, when I playback the file the first time after I turn the computer on and begin work. I could try reinstalling the samples of those instruments, but if the sample file(s) got corrupted, I'd think they'd not play back correctly every time. Any thoughts from what might be causing this? Thanks, Jerry

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Hi Wookiee, Well, that's to be expected as they are on different albums and each album was mastered without considering how the previous album was mastered. They're not part of the same symphony.. Thanks for listening and for the kind words! Jerry