Wave Sample Manager errors

[radiospace]

While I'm waiting on my Wave to arrive I've started working my way through the manual and also am attempting to build a couple of instruments with the (offline) Wave Manager.

I've done 2 instruments so far. One of them I experimented with the WM's ability to auto-slice-and-assign a single audio file that contains a chromatic scale of notes recorded from another keyboard. This worked like a charm (and incidentally is a feature that will make sampling other keyboards nearly effortless...gotta love it).

The second instrument I am using individual audio files, manually assigning them to keys.

In this case I am getting repeated errors when trying to "Generate" the instrument, all of which read in the vein of:

"Encoding failed, zone F3 (sample ID 39)"

I'm getting this error on numerous zones, using different samples. If I de-assign the offending sample, the next one down the list reports the same error (with different numbers attached).

Anybody recognize these error codes and have some idea what might be going on?

Thanks.

[Monk]

Hi Radiospace, I'm not sure if I'm on the right track or not but if you are getting the same error message once you have "deassigned" a sample, could it be somethingto do with a multi assign? I know you can assign a sample to either a single key or a key group (or zone, or range! same thing right?). I am wondering if the error means you have a sample somewhere that is assigned to a large key group and it is covering the new key you want to use (so you would fire two samples from one key)? Just a suggestion I haven't tried this yet but I would assume that the processor would only allow 1 sample per key per "slot" at a time but that these could obviously be played polyphonically up to the 18 notes.

[radiospace]

The problem turned out to be that there is a bug in the software related to choosing not to loop a particular sample. (That is, you have the option to make a sample a single strike with a decay rather than looping part of the sound). The Instrument I was having problems with was unlooped (an electric guitar, to be precise). If I recall correctly the bug only effected users of PowerPC-based Macs (G4 and G5's). In any event I worked around it for the time being by looping a tiny bit of silence at the end of the sample, which circumvented the bug. Hopefully they'll fix it in the next update to the Wave Manager software.

[Wout Blommers]

Well, rather strange thread concerning the gap in time, but anyway

monk

Wout