I have a song section with 2 acoustic guitars (steel and nylon panned left and right) and a bass. The steel guitar keeps dropping out occasional notes. If I mute the bass or the other guitar, it sounds fine. This is happening on my system (SB32 + Yamaha XG) as well as a mates (AWE64). Any ideas???
I have the same problem on an SB16 card which I suspect is due to the limitation on the number of voices that can sound at one time.
On an SB16 I think you have only 20 2-operator voices and 5 of those are taken up by the drum channel leaving 15 voices to share around among the other channels.
I wouldn't have thought that this would be a problem on AWE32/64 though.
If all your voices sound at the same instant the sound card chokes.
I write for big band and find that multi-voice ensembles written with NWC are quantized exactly to the same instant causing the choke off of some notes.
If you have access to a sequencer that allows you to shift staves in time -like Cakewalk, export your midi and try spreading the notes that sound together slightly apart.
For guitar this will mean appegiating the chord a couple of ticks after each other.
This works well on my sound card - try it on yours.
Unfortunately NWC doesn't provide this facility.
Hmm Have you tried turning the amount of voices allowed on the XG driver setting?
also try and turn the chorus off in the same settings area
I ten to have problems with that but they are fine after i switch them around.
Check the documentation on your sound card... Some patches will play back better on a few certain channels. Also, make sure that you don't have all the same instruments on the same channel, if possible.
<:) Lyndon