January 18, 200719 yr hey guys, I recently purchased EWQL Silver, and I only have 512mb of ram. I just have one question. I see the DFD button on the GUI, but I cant click on it. Do I have to have Kontakt to use the DFD option. I just want to optimize the use of EWQLSO. Any reply would greatly help. thanks
January 18, 200719 yr Hi there, If you installed the DFD plugin then it should already be activated. In any case, when you look at the GUI, the DFD indicator has a button to its immediate right entitled "Options" with a pull-down menu. Click it and you can access the DFD options menu. Good luck! :D
January 18, 200719 yr Author Thanks for the reply dude, Unfortunately, mine does not have a options button to its right. There is one to the left but it doesnt say anything about DFD. yikes!!! any suggestions
January 18, 200719 yr Oh, I'm sorry, I actually meant the left! :P Anyway, if you don't see the option in the pulldown menu then I don't think you've installed the plugin - did you actually go their site and download and install it like the instructions say to?
January 18, 200719 yr You can't click on it because you haven't update it. It's natively not installed. Somewhere on the manual if you bought EWQL recently, it should direct you to a dfd update. Look up the DFD update on soundsonline support section.
January 18, 200719 yr Author Oh ok, I got it now. It loads much faster now. Thanks guys. now if only writing things for this library to play were this easy............... Much appreciated. I called a buddy of mine who owns the Xp, he says its well worth the money. can anyone in here add to that? its not that expensive. or should i just work on my composin' and use the software I already own?
January 18, 200719 yr I have the XP - it's DEFINATELY worth every penny. EWQLSO is nowhere near as impressive without it as with it. but it all depends on your needs; if you find that you've got everything you need in there already then there's no use spending the money. But if you're feeling limited, chances are XP will cover it.
January 19, 200719 yr Author cool!!! Im gonna have to look into that. I have a question. Is there anyway that i can put a different articulation on say, a violin part, like for one bar have it played arco, but the next bar have it played pizzicato using ewqlso. can i do that without using different channels? I think using a different channel for every articualtion that i want to use is a bit of a hassle. Anyone with input? Greatly appreciated.
January 19, 200719 yr You can do that by using the keyswitch patches - that's exactly what they're for. They'll preload a set of articulations and then you simply have to activate a certain MIDI note on the same channel (outside the range of the instrument itself, you'll see it in the interface) and then it will switch to whatever the assigned articulation is.
January 19, 200719 yr Author hmm..... so it is possible. Im using cubase LE. How do I assign that midi note to keyswitch to other articulation. and how do i assign all of the articulations to the same channel. Sorry for asking all these questions but really wanna know how to do this.
January 19, 200719 yr You could always read the manual...it's all in there... Just load the keyswitch patch in the interface, see which note activates which articulation, and then write that note in just as you would any other, only instead of making any sound it'll act as a switch and tell the library to change the articulation.
January 19, 200719 yr cain777, even though Marius suggests keyswitches. I would recommend a "no". At 512 mb of ram, you should look to conserve memory. At times, you'll find that you do not need all articulations from a keyswitch patch. You should try to create different articulations in different tracks.
January 19, 200719 yr Author I see what your saying juicy pork. But i dont think 512mb of ram, shouldnt hold me back as much as it used to, now that i have it runnin' Direct from disk. how do you handle different articulations, i think different tracks is kinda a hassle. and time consuming.
January 19, 200719 yr DFD isn't an all wonderful tool, there are always drawbacks between memory and the processor. Your CPU also plays an important role on how many instruments can be played. You'll find that even at 8 single instruments (no articulations), you'll run into some latency or program lag issues due to memory surges. It's not all that of a hassle in cubase when you understand how to use different channels in one track or work with two tracks in one key editor. If you must use the keyswitches, take Marius's advice, read the manual. That's what it's there for.
January 20, 200719 yr I suggested keyswitches because they can be less of a hassle and you can record the piece in the instrumental choirs - not all at once - and then mix the audio pieces back together into one final mix. On the other hand, adding more tracks could be easier on your computer...in truth it's just something that you should experiment with and see which method works best for your system. And yes, reading the manual helps. I changed my signature for people like you. :D
January 21, 200719 yr Well! you could always make additional tracks with additional midi articulations. Xp pro is worth it really worth it! 512 Mb of RAM are enough for some things. One idea would be to freeze, or bounce to audio, or exprot to audio your every instrument and then you would have all the instruments you want, without problems. I mean even with 2 Gb, you can't go much above 100 midi tracks. So if you run out, you just start making audio files.
January 22, 200719 yr Author YIKES!!. 100 tracks of midi! thats a lot of stuff. Too bad I only have Cubase Le, it came with some guitar hardware. I read that it will only allow up to 48 tracks of midi, and 48 tracks of audio. So I either have to make each track really count, or just get a better version of cubase. By the way,this weekend, i was at namm. and some guy gave me a demo of pro tools le. It seems pretty powerful, but I was told its main purpose was for audio, right now at the moment, im pretty much a midi guy. any one here use pro tools? is it pretty cool, or nah?
January 22, 200719 yr pro tools is mainly for audio but that doesn't mean it's midi is substandard, it just means it's audio is bloody good Try out the demo, see if you like it
January 23, 200719 yr YIKES!!. 100 tracks of midi! thats a lot of stuff. Too bad I only have Cubase Le, it came with some guitar hardware. I read that it will only allow up to 48 tracks of midi, and 48 tracks of audio. So I either have to make each track really count, or just get a better version of cubase. By the way,this weekend, i was at namm. and some guy gave me a demo of pro tools le. It seems pretty powerful, but I was told its main purpose was for audio, right now at the moment, im pretty much a midi guy. any one here use pro tools? is it pretty cool, or nah? 100 tracks of midi on a single PC with today's most advanced equipment available to us still is impossible, I think when he said 100 tracks, it was just a comparison. 48 is not a small number. Most projects use less, much less. When you go above that, it's usually networked PC's for a full audio system.
