I'm gonna bet 20 bucks (euros, actually ) that you have different pitch bend settings in the i2m editor and the MIDI sampler you're using.tklenke wrote:I'm noticing that some notes just aren't being played through the i2m. For example, when I play an arpeggio over the first five strings on the guitar notes toward the end of the arpeggio are not recognized. On violin I'm noticing the same thing when I play at higher speeds. If I play at a slow speed it seems to recognize things ok. I've also noticed that the i2m won't play exactly what I'm playing - sharp or flat notes.
Having been developed for keyboards, MIDI format is essentially staccato-oriented. You press a key, and a MIDI note is created, as simple as that. Guitar, wind and bowed instruments are, however, capable of producing true legato, and MIDI conversion hardware/software tries to emulate it by using pitch bends.
What happens when you're bowing is as follows. Once your bow touches the string, a corresponding MIDI note is created; then, while you move your left hand along the string, no new notes are "issued", but instead the original one is being "altered" with pitch bend events. The same thing would happen on a synth if you pressed the key corresponding to the initial note of a progression and then "played" all of the successive notes not by hitting their respective keys, but by manipulating the pitch bend wheel.
The problem is, pitch bend events are "relative", i.e. they depend on range settings.
So what you should do is make sure that pitch bend range is the same in the sampler you're using and the i2m editor. I'm not sure about Komplete 7, since i can only afford a free Kontakt Player , but for i2m you can use the clock-like thingie in the "pitch mode" column.
In case Komplete has the same interface as Kontakt:
- open the instrument you're using in edit mode;
- locate the "Source" section;
- click the "Mod" button there to expand the list of modulators;
- the horizontal modulation intensity slider on the pitchbend->pitch modulator controls the pitch bend range.
Another thing you should do is set up your sampler to recognise i2m's breath controller events, otherwise your violin will sound very flat. In "guitar" and "wind" modes (if you've installed the latest firmware that is, otherwise only in the "wind" mode) i2m issues breath controller events (CC2, control change 2 = breath control) when the volume of your playing changes; however, your sampler doesn't know about it yet. I don't have Kontakt installed right now, but the procedure mirrors the aforementioned one: open the instrument in edit mode, go to the "Volume" section (i think... or is it called "Amplifier"?) and set CC2 events as the source of volume modulation.
Hope this helps.