The second comment is the way to do it and here's why. You can also pre-work with Bandstand in BiaB and afterwards use Kontakt with Realband to let the sound be much greater. great Kontakt- Sounds- and perhaps even by your own sampled voice - By the way, Kontakt has also small libraries like "vintage", many sounds less than 20 MB. I think it would be much easier in RB.Įdited by jazzmammal ( 07/11/12 01:09 AM)īut with the new options in BIAB, each instrument has a separate VST instrument, you can e.g. The problem is with midi tracks Biab will generate all of them every time so you would have to use a GM synth for all the tracks except the one you're using Kontakt with and then rotate them around. It's complicated but you could do it in Biab because it lets you use more than one synth at a time. Try Kontakt in Real Band because you can generate one track at a time and put your song together that way. Seven instruments could be used in Biab and if each one averages like a half gig in size? That's a ton of processing for any computer and it simply can't happen.Įverything's a tradeoff.
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See the difference? You're only loading one Kontakt instrument at a time into a DAW so a sample size for one of the killer grand pianos could be over a full gig in size and it doesn't matter because it's not being used in real time by a program like Biab. You lay down the track, move on to the next and then after each track is recorded, then you mix it. You only work with one track at a time in a DAW. Musicians the world over use big samplers like Kontakt because they're using DAW's not Biab. But then you lose the ability to direct render to an audio file and a few other things. This is one reason why people will go with a hardware synth. Maybe Kontakt has a bank of smaller samples that might work. Even then I don't know if that would work because of the sample sizes. That means every song has to be set up manually by you first but the trade off is great sound. No way do you have enough ram to preload it all in.
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It's simple math, the bigger the sample size, the better the sound. The reason it sounds so good is each instrument sample is huge. The thing is GM soundbanks are small so they load easily into ram so then all you do is load it once like you do with Bandstand and then every song you want to play just plays. Biab uses the GM standard by default because while it's very limited it's also no brainer easy for people to use.
Yep, good ol GM it gets noob's every time including me back in the day.