[ddots-l] Re: Question about expantion packs for dimention

I'm considering that one as well.  Has anybody heard it?  Particularly anyone 
who doesn't like the Dimension Piano sounds?  Gord?
Bob.
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: neville 
  To: ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
  Sent: Wednesday, February 27, 2008 10:11 AM
  Subject: [ddots-l] Re: Question about expantion packs for dimention


  Does anyone have the expantion pack for Dimension Pro that includes the 
Yamaha gran piano that was addvertised on the Cakewalk website? If so how is 
it? How does the piano sound? Is it like the other dimension Pro pianos or is 
it better. 
    ----- Original Message ----- 
    From: Bryan Smart 
    To: ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
    Sent: Wednesday, February 27, 2008 4:58 AM
    Subject: [ddots-l] Re: Question about expantion packs for dimention


    Greg,

    I have several of the Proteus Packs for Dimension Pro. I've also owned a 
few of the E-Mu Proteus sound font collections (like for the MoPhat, Planet 
Phat, Orbit, the module madness proteus 1/2/3, etc). The Dimension Pro versions 
sound a bit more like a real Proteus. You get reverb, autopanner, and other 
effects that were part of the original sound. It isn't quite what was 
originally there, of course, but it is way better than the sound fonts. Also, 
the sampling and voice programming seems much better to me, also.

    Comparing the MoPhat sound font to the Dimension version is a good specific 
example. The sound font version sounded like they sampled individual notes from 
the MoPhat's voices. With the sound font, the voices sound very strange near 
the ends of the keyboard. It sounds as if the designers plugged a MoPhat into 
their computer, and just sampled every voice at each octave or so. The pitch 
shifting/stretching is very bad in many voices. Of course, I never used those 
sound fonts for the instrument voices, but instead went to them for the drums, 
sound effects, hits/stabs/etc. Those were the classic E-Mu sounds that I 
wanted. The Dimension version of MoPhat uses the original PCM data/samples from 
the MoPhat. The result isn't as perfect like a proteus as some of the 
advertisements might have you believe, but, since the voices are programmed 
instead of just sampled, they're a lot more expressive than what you'd find in 
a sound font.

    BTW: As a Cakewalk dealer, I believe that Dancing Dots could supply you 
with the Proteus Packs for Dimension Pro, if you decide to buy them. If you 
decide to get all 6 of them at once, you can get the complete set for just 
under $300. There are over 2000 presets in that set, which will certainly beaf 
up your Dimension Pro sample library.

    Bryan



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    From: ddots-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:ddots-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On 
Behalf Of Greg Brayton
    Sent: Saturday, February 23, 2008 9:09 AM
    To: ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
    Subject: [ddots-l] Question about expantion packs for dimention


    Where do I go to get the expansion packs I forgot. also I have many of the 
proteus sounds from digital sound factory. Do they make these sound any better 
with dimension, adding echo, stereo or reverb to them, or are they the same? 
Can anyone comment?
    http://www.gbrayton.com


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