Synthetic Wav wrote:Really intresting about the sampling process ! sometimes i felt like nebula program sounded better than the hardware i m used at some setting to me (in some case it seems it can be ) . i m definlety intrested in sampling but i have no idea how it work, i will check it, or maybe i should wait next version of nebula? things will be more easier maybe?
on some gears transformer can sometims be too much colored ,like saturate too much with bass heavy source or even cut the sub deep low, i wonder if with the sampling process i could avoid this ? sometimes i don't want the transformer color. that would make the nebula program more suited than the actural gear for mastering for example ,but maybe there is some artifacts, i d'on t know it seems complicated.
The sampling process isn't all that difficult to do, unless you are going for compressors.. but it's being worked on heavily and will be much easier in the future and probably a lot more powerful. Basic preamp and one band EQ sampling is a breeze so I'd say go for it if you own Nebula Pro or Server bundle. NAT (the sampling program) is included as far as I know.
One of the major benefits of VVKT sampling is that you can get really clean samples at very low input levels into the hardware. This means that you can run your audio through the sampled hardware at much lower input levels than you would normally do, due to noise. This in turn means that you get much less harmonic distortion combined with no crosstalk or other problems.. which is probably why the results are sometimes more pleasing than the actual hardware. All of this and still you get the "sonic fingerprint" of the hardware.. which is kind of strange as I always thought it was about all the noise and oddities but there's other stuff going on as well, obviously. It's like each piece of hardware has slightly different ways of dealing with transients.. like the impulse response is the key, combined with the frequency response changes and harmonic distortion.
Whatever it is, one thing is certain, VVKT sampling is amazing and something unique. The only thing I've yet to find Nebula useful for is to really crush a signal into a distorted mess. For this kind of over the top effect you really need to use hardware or more dedicated software. It may be that this is possible to achieve in the future but it'd take tons of processing power as you need way more harmonics than the 10 that Nebula allows.
