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[Len911]

Have you verified any pitch problems with Albion?

If you are wanting perfectly tuned, normalised or “dry” samples you have probably come to the wrong place.
For here you may find the odd string squeak, a “fruity” trumpet note, and lots and lots of “room” but put the whole package together, write some beautiful music and suddenly this library and our approach will make perfect sense

from the Albion manual

[Len911]

As far as a remedy? This is from Sound On Sound review:
http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/feb13/a ... oegria.htm

The sackbuts' usefulness in this field is compromised by some dodgy tuning: the long note of D above Middle C is the worst offender, with one player starting his note flat of the other. Impossible to rectify in post-production, this sample should really have been re-recorded (although I do understand that historic instruments can be difficult to play in tune). Fortunately, anyone with rudimentary Kontakt programming chops can delete the sample in question from the patch and fill the gap by stretching the play zones of the neighbouring notes. Once I'd done that, these instruments with the ugly name rewarded me with some very sweet music.

Alternatively, I suppose you could delete the offending midi note in the track, and with a new track, place a neighboring midi note in that position, and pitch shift the audio of the track with the one note.
That is probably what you might have to do if you only have the Kontakt player and not the full sampler.

[Tore]

I have not experience any pitch problems when layering with Adagietto, but when i tried one of the pads from Albion and Emberton Violin i got surprised. I had to play Emberton violin a half tone down to get it in tune What is that?! So there is some problems, but i think it is just a few sounds and hopefully just the pads and not the strings,brass and woodwinds. Albion library is soo huge so you could actually just use Albion stuff on the whole track, but this pitch problem make Albion a bit limited
I still think its worth the money

Tore

[Tore]

Thanks Len911 for good info

[Len911]

Thanks Len911 for good info

You are so welcome, glad it was useful!

[Russell Landwehr]

Patty and Tore

Are you finding the pitch problems in "Albion 1" ? (there are four packages)

Currently Sweetwater has Albion 1 for $229 USD.

[Tore]

I have some pitch problems with some of the pads, cause they seem to wandre a bit to much. I havent fond any in the orchestral part of Albion 1. Ive just started on a new track using much orchestral stuff from Albion 1, but no pitch problem so far. I think it is "safe" to buy it cause there is so much good stuff in Albion 1 and if there is pitch problem i deal with it when it shows If you think'n of buying it Russel beware that it could be problems layering with another string library because Albion has such unic sound. I enjoy Albion 1 so much, great sound out of the box

[Len911]

I suppose you could say they are like organic. No artificial fretted instruments.

I thought that was part of the orchestra's character, that they were all closely tuned, not perfectly tuned.

has anyone tried using a good chorus effect on the "perfectly tuned" sample libraries they wanted to layer with the Albion? That might replicate the "organics" somewhat. Note to self, experiment with chorus on strings

[Tore]

Yes, organic is the word. Thats right, the Orchestra part isnt perfectly tuned and that is what makes this library so fun. But some of the pads are to far out, sounds to much out of tune so it could be a bit more work to use them in a track. But overall i dig this library.

[mojobone]

Patty and Tore

Are you finding the pitch problems in "Albion 1" ? (there are four packages)

Currently Sweetwater has Albion 1 for $229 USD.

You can buy Albion 1 for less, directly, through the end of September, 2015, unless I'm seriously misjudging the exchange rate.