Sample Testing - Marimba Prototype
I did another test run with the MIDI Marimba prototype - this time with some foam in between the piezo pickups and the marimba keys - it performed a lot better and I barely noticed any accidental key triggering at all!
In this video I’m mainly demonstrating using it to trigger different types of samples to show the possibilities of the instrument and see how playing it works.
I try out some marimba samples, a vibes, a zither as well as some drum kit and Afro-Latin percussion instruments and some bells - it’s really very flexible!
The sound you were hearing is straight out of the marimba, recorded from the stereo mix on my computer.
Some of these samples are single velocity layered samples and some are multi-velocity layered samples - something I go more into back in this post.
The basics explanation though is that you can either have samples that get louder and softer according to how hard you hit, but is the same sound file being played - OR you can have it setup so that different sound files are played for different hit strengths - this allows you to add lots of detail to the virtual instrument, as all physical instruments respond this way - their sound changes a lot according to how you are playing them, not just getting softer and louder.