Dave Govett -GS Experts: a GS .gig Problem

[dwdonehoo]

Perhaps someone out there may have an answer to this problem. I have this .gig file (actually a number of them) with alot of xfades and layers. With nothing else loaded except GS and this.gig, I play one note and after about one second a bunch of the voices cut out. As a matter of fact, I can look at the voices readout and it will be playing 11 voices, then suddenly it will switch to 8 voices at the same time as the voices cut out in the sound. The gig file looks fine in the editor: All of the samples that are utilized in that instrument are fine, and all the ASDR envelopes look ok as well. Any idea what is going wrong here?

[Bill]

Can it be that the samples for those voices are simply coming to an end? I know that happens in some AO string patches.

[dwdonehoo]

No, that is not it, thanks. It is an abrupt end of voices: 11 voices playing suddenly going to 8 voices.

[KingIdiot]

are some of them looped, and the loops turned off?

[dwdonehoo]

I will look into it. Would that cause 3 out of 11 voices to stop at the same time??

[dwdonehoo]

Nope, no loops and no loops are on, even if they had them, which they don\'t. Thanks.
Any more ideas out there?

[KingIdiot]

It really depends on the samples themselves then.

Its really hard to tell ya whats going on without having the gig in front of my face.

Aren\'t you in San jose?

maybe you can give me a call later and we can walk through it together, or brng it by or something.

[thesoundsmith]

Do you have backup copies of the WAV files? You might have a glitch in the file which causes some notes to stop?

I have a couple of notes in the ProSamples Quantum Leap Pop Brass that do something like that. They suddenly go down a whole tone and then cut out. It\'s in the individual sample, not the GIG.

Dasher

[dwdonehoo]

No, that\'s not it. Thanks. Several different .gig\'s do this. All large 11+ voices...

[SteveHanlon]

well, i was experiencing a violin line dropping out on a held note. I was running 50-60 polyphony..certainly nothing on the edge for giga 160. But still that violin was dropping out.

so, I moved the Giga buffer to 4MB (which I\'ve nevr had to do) and it took care of the dropping out violin.

Man, I swear there are invisible beings just mesing around with our DAWs. I can never explain why stuff that has worked fine suddenly stops (adding nothing new to the computer even). Just a different day. images/icons/wink.gif

[dwdonehoo]

No, thanks, don\'t think that was it. All ideas welcome. And still waiting for Mr. Govett. images/icons/wink.gif

[Chadwick]

Doyle, is there any way for you to isolate the layers and see just which samples are the ones cutting out?

[dwdonehoo]

This happens with different instruments of similar complexity. I will look into this tac tho. Thanks.

[David Govett]

Just got back from LA!

Anyway, to start off, King Idiot is on to something. It is difficult to tell without the instrument in front of you.
Perhaps you can list the instruments you are using and the process that went into assembling them. In the end, it might be good to send a copy to the King and myself. We could probably solve it pretty quick that way.
Send me a private message if you wish to try that.

At face value, it just sounds like the instruments are done playing either by the samples length running out or the envelope closing down on those particular samples. Sounds like you don\'t think that is the case though.
Another thing that is strange is 11 notes of polyphony. If it\'s a single gig, the count should a more even number like 8 or 16 unless you are layering a couple gig files together. Or, more likely, the polyphony count should start at 16 but it drops to 11 off that bat and then to 8 after a second.
Like I said, start by posting the exact libraries and any details about them.
Talk to you later
Dave

[dwdonehoo]

Dave, I have tried many times to find your email, but no luck. Mine is available at the links below. I will explore your suggestions.
And thanks to you and all!