dmorris replied on 02-16-2011 12:25 PM
Glad you're enjoying Songsmith!
The sounds you hear in an exported .wav file are more or less identical to the individual instrument samples; very little transformation happens. Of course with any sampler, if an instrument is sampled at C4 and you have a C#4 in your music, the sample
will be distorted slightly when its pitch is shifted, but for this caliber of instrument (pretty lightweight in terms of sample size), the distortion will be pretty insignificant.
The only other thing that happens to the instruments is a little bit of reverb that gets added by Songsmith. There isn't really a way to control this in the program, but if you're poking around the directory anyway... : You can turn the
reverb off by editing a file called "mysongconfig.txt". Look for the line that looks like this:
REVERB_LEVELS 0.8,0.5,0.8,0.8,0.8
And change it to:
REVERB_LEVELS 0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0
You'll need to re-start Songsmith for this change to take effect.
I prefer the sounds with reverb on (as does Garritan; they suggested the reverb :!), but if you want it to sound more like the raw samples, turning the reverb off is the most significant change you can make.
Have fun!
-Dan from the Songsmith team
