Is there a way to make voices and drum kit's take up less space
like a way to compress them
I'm especially dealing with custom drum kit's with custom sound's
is there a certain method of sampling that would sample the sound's still in good quality but take up less space?
i would really appreciate as much help as possible with this...
Hi shneurslonim,
Yamaha (and probably some companies that work directly with Yamaha for Voice programming) can use a special,
compressed sample format (patent pending).
All other third-party companies and we "normal users" can only use
uncompressed samples (.wav or .aif, 44.1 kHz, 16bit, stereo).
Ways to reduce the Wave memory requirements of Custom Voices are:
- Use of shorter samples, looped if necessary
- Using fewer samples per voice (e.g. not a separate sample for each key, but only one sample for 2, 3, 4 or more notes mapped, and/or deleting complete, not absolutely necessary elements (layers) in Voices.)
- In the case of Drum kits with
one shot sounds, there is usually not much that can be optimized (apart from completely deleting the waves of sounds within the Drum kit that are no longer required).
- When it comes to REX based Voices, probably the only way is to use shorter loops (e.g. only one measure long).
Unfortunately I can't give you a more positive answer here, but using as short or as few samples as possible per voice is the only way to save Wave storage space.
Best regards,
Chris