Some TTS-1 instruments suddenly sound different

[Dave G]

By no particular recent event or action to my knowledge, a few of my TTS-1 instruments suddenly sound different.

1) The Distortion Guitar (patch 31-000) sounds muddy and inconsistent in tone while descending into the decay -- not as smooth as it should be.

2) The default drum kit Crash Cymbal 2 seems to be disrupted by the light "tick" of  Ride Cymbal 2 shortly into the cymbal hit. (i.e. "Ckshhhhh!" is "Cksh-ts-hhhhhhhhh!")

I still appreciate the TTS-1 library and strictly use it as a placeholder for instruments in a new project until I replace them with higher-quality VST's.

These anomalies aren't central to one project. It's the TTS-1 engine itself. To make it more complicated, I don't know if they always sounded like this or I'm just now noticing it...or if my hearing is just really good. I don't know where to start diagnosing this. I don't want to have to go the trouble of reinstalling Cakewalk or even reformatting my hard drive to weed out the issue.

Any ideas? Thanks in advance.

[Promidi]

Are these differences occurring in MIDI tracks with just the note data in them?  For the Distortion Guitar, are there any CC74 or CC71 events therein. 

As a test, what happens if you put CC74 > 63 and CC71 > 63 Events in

TTS-1 default drum kit Crash Cymbal 2 plays ok here.

[Dave G]

On 10/30/2024 at 4:30 AM, Promidi said:

Are these differences occurring in MIDI tracks with just the note data in them?  For the Distortion Guitar, are there any CC74 or CC71 events therein. 

As a test, what happens if you put CC74 > 63 and CC71 > 63 Events in

TTS-1 default drum kit Crash Cymbal 2 plays ok here.

Thank you for the response!

As an experiment, I tried placing simple notes of these Patches into a new project.

(I wasn't able to upload a sample WAV here, as the file size was exceeded.)

I will test the CC events you suggested and follow up as needed.

Thank you!

Edited October 31 by Dave G