Elazmo Hiftenfifter

The default preset and the Mark 1, which I used for my screen shots, have the same "stuff" at the beginning. I think the stuff might be a bit louder on the Mark 1 preset. Rightly so. The stuff before the periodic waveform is mechanical clunks from the damper mechanism and hammer flange. Of course, that's part of the Rhodes sound. The problem for me at least is that the stuff lasts way too long (27 ms on C1) before the periodic waveform kicks in. Higher notes kick in much earlier. So, when I play low notes and high notes together, there is a noticeable disconnect. Very frustrating to play. I am pretty sure that some players will find the issue as frustrating as I do. I own three real Rhodes pianos, and none of them has lagging low notes. FYI, the notes in my bounces were each at a velocity of 80, Rhodes V8 Pro version. Thanks again for your patience with this. Kudos to Logic Pro Help!

Thanks for investigating. What I'm seeing (see attached screen shot) is "stuff" in front of the tone, that results in a delayed feel compared to upper notes. As can be seen from the comparison in the screen shot, the two samples' tones are clearly not lining up. When combined with system latency, this is a deal breaker for me. I'm running 2.5ms output latency at 96K. I will not belabor the point, but am hopeful that whomever has this plug can play it, feel the problem, and chime in, BTW, the Vintage Electric Piano in LPX is immediate. No delay in any tones whatsoever. FAST!

Thanks a million! I think that if enough customers present this issue to Rhodes, they will address it. I am expecting a dodge from them though. It is true that lower notes on real Rhodes pianos are a few microseconds behind upper notes, due to the escapement (the distance between hammer tip and tine) that is necessary to setting up a Rhodes properly. But this introduces a tiny, unnoticeable delay, not 27ms or more. None of my three Rhodes pianos exhibits extreme lag in the low notes. Thanks again.

Yes, I have contacted Rhodes, whose customer liaison claims that the company has not seen this delay before. Given that response, I have no recourse but to appeal to the experienced and trustworthy pros at Logic Pro Help. In my previous screen shot, we see that the C1 note's sample begins to oscillate about 27 milliseconds after the C3 sample starts, or about 7 cycles of middle C later. This happens with all of the lower samples (although I don't want to to document each sample), and the player can feel it, for example, by running some Hanon exercises. I've used the old "sample start test" from sampling 101. Who wants to play an instrument with 27 ms of latency? I sincerely hope that Rhodes fixes this.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think there is a NOT easy way to do this -- you may be familiar with it. The drum set can be opened in Sampler (load it in DKD, then change the plugin to Sampler), where you can assign the rides and off to a single-note polyphony zone (layer). It's been a while -- I might have missed something. Hope this helps a little.

Hi everybody, after owning Rhodes V8 Pro for a few days, I generally find it to be an important emulation of the real thing. However, there is a niggling (fatal?) issue: the lower notes' samples are delayed relative to the middle and higher notes. It's quite frustrating to play. Do some Hanon exercises on V8, and you'll feel it immediately. I have attached a screen shot of bounces of MIDI notes C1 and C3. Notice the delay in C1. Is any of you seeing this issue? It breaks my heart that Rhodes Music is claiming that they don't see the issue. It's an unfortunate problem in an otherwise fine plugin.

This might be oversimplifying things, but try this: In Sampler, load the Steinway 2 instrument. In the modulator matrix, add Source=Key, Destination to Pan, and then turn up the amount. The samples were recorded with two mics, so they're already low-left and hi-right, but this will move the notes even further out to the sides.

A word of caution: I've seen two audio interfaces damaged by being plugged directly into healthy tube amps. It's wise to use a Reamp isolator in this case.

In the case of scoring multiple simultaneous time sigs, the master score would be a nightmare to produce (even with Finale, Sibelius etc), and I don't know how a conductor/MD would approach that. The individual printed parts would just be whatever time sig the individual player needs. Unless one person would be required to play two time sigs simultaneously, which would be showing off. At least you can compose and play back as many simultaneous time sigs as you can stand. Try that with live musicians! The DAW can be a tool to do things that can't be handled by live performers. I think J Dilla did some beats using this concept, what I hear as the "oblong wheel effect."

But, there is a little trick -- for example, to get 9/4 over 5/4 (easy quarter notes for this example): Lay down five quarter notes with the time sig set to 5/4. Next track, lay down nine quarter notes, starting at the same time/beat as the 5/4 track, making sure that the region ends where the tenth one would be. At the bottom right corner of the nine quarter notes' region, press option and compress the nine notes (drag to the left) into the one measure length of the 5/4 region above. Now you have 9/4 over the same time period that the 5/4 region fills. Of course, you can do this with any part, not just with quarter notes.

Hi all, does anyone know how to instantiate a dual mono audio effect plug in Mainstage? The only options I'm getting are Stereo and Mono... Thanks!

There is a very playable way to do rolls, but you'll need to set up some "key up" triggers in Sampler. With this, you can actually play four keys (e.g. C, C#, D, D#) and it'll feel like you're playing a snare drum. Put the left hand snare hits on C, and the right hand snare hits on D#. Copy the left hand hits and enable them to trigger both key down and key up. Assign them to C#. Do the same thing with the right hand hits, and assign to D. Now your C and D# are your main single hits, and the inside notes are the rolls. It feels just like playing double-stroke rolls on a snare drum. You can vary loudness and roll speed easily just by playing real time.

We recently procured the 2019 iMac i9 at the college I teach at, and it might be the best audio platform I've worked on. Fans are silent for us, no issues. Running Mojave and wired peripherals that nobody wants to steal.

I think there's an Amazon device for that -- Tab, RC, anything you want. It's like when the old Macs would prompt "Error Type 11," and people would type "11" to clear it.

But my keyboard has TWO option keys -- which one should I press? Is there an option?