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soundofmaw said:
Hi Jett, glad you enjoyed this. My mixing skills are extremely rudimentary but it's something I plan on learning more about this year. Here are my settings...

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Then in the NotePerformer plugin in Dorico I set it to 70% reverb for this piece...

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I then just do a straight Dorico export to .wav file, open in Audacity and do Effect > Amplify... and bump it up to just below the max. Save to .mp3 and that's it. No other effects or reverb.

Honestly, the sound you're hearing is what sold me on SSO - the amazing sound of AIR Studios Lyndhurst Hall.
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Ok, maybe I should look a little harder at SSO. I have owned it for a long time, but I never really got along with it in a DAW. (SSS infuriates me.)

Thanks for the tips. I will try these settings when I get back to Dorico.
 
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Can NPPE auto download the bare minimum necessary samples from , say , HOOPUS strings? I tried this and see a dialog asking me for permission and location to download, but dont see the samples getting downloaded actually.
 
To answer above myself, it does attempt to auto download just the needed samples. However sometimes the download gets paused and needs to be manually resumed from the Opus player
 
soundofmaw said:
I’m really pleased with SSO and HOOPUS NPPE’s so far. This is a partial draft of something I’m working on using SSO and HOOPUS percussion if it helps with your decision…

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This sounds amazing. Do you feel like you had to "write to the samples" when composing this (i.e. you changed your initial ideas to make it sound better with the samples), or did you simply just input your ideas and it sounded good no matter what?
 
Sparky76 said:
Doh! I didn't realise I had to start playback. It works. Thanks
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When offline bouncing a score, the notation program also playbacks.

Our stem feature writes .wav stems for the next playback pass, even if it's real-time playback and not an offline bounce.
 
prasad_v said:
Can NPPE auto download the bare minimum necessary samples from , say , HOOPUS strings? I tried this and see a dialog asking me for permission and location to download, but dont see the samples getting downloaded actually.
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If that's the case, it's managed by the OPUS player.

When loading a project with Musio (analogous to loading the engine in NPPE), the Musio player automatically downloads the associated samples. I don't know how/if that works for the EW Composer Cloud.

That said, we use most samples from HOOPUS. At least we use the most memory-intensive ones (legato/portamento MAX). We don't use all the patches, but many HOOPUS patches are technical variations using the same samples, so you wouldn't gain much by not downloading them.
 
ChickenAndARoll said:
This sounds amazing. Do you feel like you had to "write to the samples" when composing this (i.e. you changed your initial ideas to make it sound better with the samples), or did you simply just input your ideas and it sounded good no matter what?
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A bit of both. Mostly I can write/orchestrate normally, and it sounds as I expected it would. However, there were some instances where I had to adjust the orchestration or play with CC11/dynamics/slurs/articulations until I got the sound I was looking for.

It’s very close the majority of the time and certainly requires far less tweaking than in a DAW. Sometimes it’s a setting in Dorico’s playback settings that affects it, so I end up adjusting that. Overall, it nails the performance 90% of the time or more.

Really it comes down to knowing what you want, then polishing things until you get that sound.
 
jbuhler said:
I finally had a chance to listen to this in mu studio. It sounds very good. So this is all SSO except percussion?
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Correct. Percussion & harp are HOOPUS. Woodwinds, brass and strings are all SSO.

One change I might do is turn off NPPE hall noise before exporting from Dorico next time. That would get rid of the high frequency background noise. Although, it kind of makes it sound like an older tape recording which does give it a little character.
 
@Wallander apologies if this has been answered elsewhere, but is there any difference to MIDI export when using NotePerformer in the DAW?

I absolutely love NotePerformer, and I'm just wondering whether any of its magic is being added to the MIDI that gets exported, or whether that MIDI is the DAW's unadulterated vanilla content. I ask as I'm planning to use a new workflow where I export NPPE stems into the DAW, and selectively reprogram certain sections and parts.

Thanks in advance, and thanks for building such an incredible tool. ❤️
 
ModalRealist said:
@Wallander apologies if this has been answered elsewhere, but is there any difference to MIDI export when using NotePerformer in the DAW?

I absolutely love NotePerformer, and I'm just wondering whether any of its magic is being added to the MIDI that gets exported, or whether that MIDI is the DAW's unadulterated vanilla content. I ask as I'm planning to use a new workflow where I export NPPE stems into the DAW, and selectively reprogram certain sections and parts.

Thanks in advance, and thanks for building such an incredible tool. ❤️
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This process would be amazing, but not possible with NotePerformer as you describe, I am pretty sure. I think of it as a "black box" inside of which things happen—terrifying, great and magical— that cannot be reproduced to a MIDI sequence.
 
ModalRealist said:
@Wallander apologies if this has been answered elsewhere, but is there any difference to MIDI export when using NotePerformer in the DAW?

I absolutely love NotePerformer, and I'm just wondering whether any of its magic is being added to the MIDI that gets exported, or whether that MIDI is the DAW's unadulterated vanilla content. I ask as I'm planning to use a new workflow where I export NPPE stems into the DAW, and selectively reprogram certain sections and parts.

Thanks in advance, and thanks for building such an incredible tool. ❤️
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There is no difference.

If there was a way for us to produce our own MIDI such that the playback was remotely reproducible in a DAW, we would have offered .mid files alongside stem exports.
 
Wallander said:
There is no difference.

If there was a way for us to produce our own MIDI such that the playback was remotely reproducible in a DAW, we would have offered .mid files alongside stem exports.
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Thank you, and no problem! It’s amazing what your tech does, doesn’t surprise me at all that it has to work in audio domain. Just good to know for when I edit that MIDI in the DAW alongside NPPE exported stems.

For others reading: NPPE is the bomb and Wallander’s products are the best $ I’ve spent in sample land, period!
 
Jett Hitt said:
Ok, maybe I should look a little harder at SSO. I have owned it for a long time, but I never really got along with it in a DAW. (SSS infuriates me.)

Thanks for the tips. I will try these setting when I get back to Dorico.
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SSO can sound really amazing in NP. I have a dinky Mac Mini with only 16gb so it's a challenge on it but when I played a couple things using it, I found it quite excellent.

Likely to step up to the Mac Studio later this year or 2025.
 
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What are folks' favorite NPPE's so far? I have Nucleus and VSL Synchronized SE 1 libraries, so trying those NPPE's. Nucleus NPPE is super limited (no solo strings, piano, etc.) and the SSE1 has never been my favorite.

I tried a free demo of Musio 1 and I think it sounds pretty great in the NPPE. But if I'm going to consider buying that, wondering what others I should consider as well.
 
dyross said:
What are folks' favorite NPPE's so far? I have Nucleus and VSL Synchronized SE 1 libraries, so trying those NPPE's. Nucleus NPPE is super limited (no solo strings, piano, etc.) and the SSE1 has never been my favorite.

I tried a free demo of Musio 1 and I think it sounds pretty great in the NPPE. But if I'm going to consider buying that, wondering what others I should consider as well.
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SSO is my favorite NPPE. Incredible sound. I’ve heard good things about BBC as well.
 
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