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TBO Resource
Here you will find tips & tricks on how to use the TBO.
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TBO demo version
Now you can try TBO for yourself! Download a 2 octave + all the C's demo,
(available only for GS3 at this moment, other formats will follow).
The samples has been shortened to max 7 seconds, then faded. On the full
version, the samples of course are longer! The demo version is in 16 bit.
Also, there are no impulses for pedal down or instrument resonanse included
since they still are worked on.
NOTE: TBO is a BIIIG piano, so is the demo. Even "crippled"
its well over 1 Gb, so you shouldn't try to download this unless you have
a fast connection. It's compressed with WinRar and split up to three parts.
Download them all, place them in the same directory, and uncompress the
first one only. The other two parts will uncompress automatically.
Gigastudio 3 Version
TBO GS3
Demo Part 1 (195313 kb)
TBO GS3
Demo Part 2 (195313 kb)
TBO GS3
Demo Part 3 (152300 kb)
TBO GS3 Demo Update
1. Download and unpack the file below
2. Open the Gigastudio Instrument Editor and load the TBO Demo
3. Under the File menu, use "Load Articulation File"
4. Locate and use the .art file you just downloaded
5. You might get an error message, please disregard that
6. Save you updated TBO demo.
Gigastudio 3 Update
Kontakt Version (for HALion and EXS24 files, see a bit further down!)
TBO
Kontakt Demo Part 1 (195313 kb)
TBO
Kontakt Demo Part 2 (195313 kb)
TBO
Kontakt Demo Part 3 (151902 kb)
TBO Kontakt Demo Update
1. Download and unpack the file below
2. Place the .nki files in the same folder as the other TBO Demo .nki
files
3. Done!
Kontakt Update
TBO HALion 2/3 Demo Files
1. Download the three Demo files "Kontakt Demo Part 1-3"
2. Unpack the files to your harddisk
3. Download the HALion files below
4. Unpack the .fxp files and place them in the "TBO Multi Demo"
folder
5. Done!
HALion 2/3 files
TBO EXS24 Demo Files
1. Download the three Demo files "Kontakt Demo Part 1-3"
2. Unpack the files to your harddisk
3. Download the EXS24 files below
4. Unpack the .exs files and place them in your EXS24 Instrument folder
5. Download the special EXS 24 release samples below
6. Unpack the files. This will give you a folder containing the special
EXS24 release samples.
7. Move the samples withing this folder to the "Samples" folder
from step 2. The system will say that the files already exsists and ask
if it's ok to replace them. IT IS!!!
8. Now, EXS24 can not handle this many samples in one instrument, so you
have three instruments. Load them all three in three different EXS24 instances
9. Create an instrument in the enviroment and name it TBO
10. Connect that instrument in paralell to the three EXS24 instruments
11. Done!
EXS24 files
EXS24 release samples
Here's a description over the patches in the TBO Demo Update:
TBO – All 31 velocities evenly distributed over the range. Use this
one for experimenting with new patches.
TBO 1 – All 31 velocities included, but the top levels, where keys
are hit extremely hard are placed at the very top of the velocity spectra.
TBO 2 – The top, extreme velocity layers are removed leaving “only”
28 layers. Since the top three layers comes from hitting keys really,
and I mean REALLY hard, you might not want to reach those ever…
TBO 3 – Economy patch. Uses 16 velocity layers
TBO 4 – Economy patch. Uses 8 velocity layers
Updates
Two samples are missing from the Black Grand Close "Samples"
folder, HALion/Kontakt 24 bit. You can download them here: Missing
Samples
There are some minor updates to the Close and Ambient perspective, Gigastudio
3 version. Get the art files here: Close
Ambient
If you are having problems with the .gsp files on the Gigastudio 2.5
versio, please try these updates ones (Unpack with WinRar or similar):
Black Grand Close
Black Grand
Medium Ambience Black
Grand Ambience
Missing GS3 version of Studio Grand 88 on the Free Piano DVD. On some
of the DVD's with the free pianos that where sent out with the introduction
offer, the GS3 version of the Studio Grand 88 was missing! Please download
this rar-file and follow
the instructions below to make the SG88 GS3 version:
1. Unpack the rar-file that you've just downloaded
2. Open the GS3 editor and open the GS2 version of Studio Grand 88
3. Apply the .art file from the unpacked rar-file and save in GS3 format
4. Place the files "Shell.gig", "Shell.gx99" and
"Studio Grand 88 Full Conv.gsi" from the .rar file in the same
directory as the newly created Studio Grabd 88.gig-file
DONE!
Tips & Tricks
How to unpack .rar files on a Mac - On the CD, you will find several
versions of the freeware "StuffIt Expander". You can visit their
homepage at StuffIt
for more info and updates
How to run Black Grand on Gigastudio 96 (written by Alex Kitaen) -
Here's what I'm doing. GSt96's 2 ports open a Hubi
loopback. I create a Midi-ox
translation object that clones all channel 1 data & dups it onto channel
2. Create a midi-ox port mapping between my master controller (if I'm
just playing, or from an input Hubi loopback device if I want a sequencer
port) to the output loopback device. Put the enabled translation object
on the port map from controller to GSt's loopback. Voila, the full instrument
on 2 ports and 2 duplicate channels.
REAL PIANO BEHAVIOUR by Xavier Bidault (01/09/2004)
"I wanted to recreate a real string behaviour while sustain pedal
is down. Let's consider for the moment only the string behaviour (not
the overall piano resonance) : when you play one note on a piano, you
play only a (one, a couple, or three) string. And when you use sustain
pedal while playing again this note, the previous one "disappears"
to let the new one sounding. This is not really a problem when the second
note is louder than the first one, but it is when the second is softer!
On each actual patch and digital pianos, the first loud note keeps on
sounding and expressivity is very poor. So i made a modification to gain
this realism while playing.
And this improvement has the good idea to save polyphony... no need to
have 256 voices to avoid loosing notes in rich playing (for example :
a bass note keeping on ringing although the polyphony limit should have
cut it a long time ago).I improved this for each note, and managed not
to destroy the sympathetic resonance (non-struck strings resonance) but
keeping the reinforcement effect, and still in realtime (for example,
you can play a chord then press or depress sustain in realtime and have
the same timbre's variation pedal like on a real piano). I paid attention
too to resonance when a loud note is followed by a soft note : the string
sound is dampered, but the resonance is practically not changed.I spent
also time to improve release behaviour, to improve staccato, legato, and
double-escape."
Xavier Bidault
HALion Version
Kontakt Version
New patch for the Black Grand close kontakt by Xavier Bidault
"I completely remapped the pedal up rack of the Black Grand close
for kontakt, to have a really even sound"
Download
Here
Crossgrades
Crossgrade from
GS3 to Multiformat (EXS24 Mk II, HALion and Kontakt)
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