Play the game’s instruments
LittleBigPlanet 3’s own sequencer instruments, live, through this project’s reader, key splits, pitch formula, mixer and output stage. Play them with the mouse, the computer keyboard or a MIDI controller, and turn every voice and effect parameter while it sounds. Assets come from your own install and nothing leaves this machine.
1 Pick an instrument
MPE gives every sounding note its own MIDI channel, so a bend, a press or a slide belongs to one finger instead of to the whole keyboard — which is what a Seaboard, a LinnStrument or an Osmose needs to play at all. Bend and press reach the engine where its own written glides do, the rate and the gain; slide’s landing on the cutoff is this page’s convention, not the game’s — LBP3 has no MIDI to be faithful to. Instruments that leave their filter wide open will not answer it.
2 Play
Z S X D C V G B H N J M is one octave with its sharps, Q 2 W 3 E R 5 T 6 Y 7 U the octave above, ← → shift octave, Esc panics. A note lasts as long as the key is down.
3 Turn things while it sounds
Double-click any fader to put it back where it started.
4 Bench
How long each note of those sequences is held. The keyboard above ignores it — a key sounds for as long as you hold it.
What this bench is for
Every slot at its base note plays each sample at ratio exactly 1.0 —
they should sound like one instrument, and a timbre step between them means the splits or
the pitch formula are wrong. The coloured bar on each key shows which slot it resolves to,
so the key-split zones are visible while you play them. Every pitched sample carries a loop
point in its smpl chunk and the mixer honours it, so a note’s length
follows the note, not the sample divided by the playback rate.
The control. Switching engine to “browser resampler” plays the identical sample at the identical pitch through the browser’s own resampler. Clean there and dirty here means the fault is ours. That control is what proved an earlier distortion was the wrong source material — the 4-bit SFX-bank copies — rather than anything in this pipeline.
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