Ideas for updating SilverbirdLive?

D. Vyd

Hi everyone,

I've been enjoying playing with SilverbirdLive. I notice that it uses less than 8% of my CPU when running all effects on all channels. Sometimes though, the sound seems muddy. This may be caused by the combination of samples and effects I happen to be using creating overlapping frequencies. But, I was wondering if there are any modules I can add or upgrade that might be new to Reaktor or were too CPU intensive on computers 10 years ago. For example, I was thinking of (a) looking for places where oversampling might be helpful or (b) turning all SilverbirdLive's effects off and routing the channels through specialized effects ensembles or DAW effects instead. Would using 96khz 24bit samples help with sound clarity while pitch shifting and filtering? What do people here recommend?

-d.vyd

colB

Not sure if 'updating' something like this would ever be as simple as just replacing some modules with more modern modules with similar functionality...

e.g. you could replace the saturators with ILO saturators, that would remove some aliasing... but that might not always sound better. For some snapshots, it might remove aliasing noise and provide more clarity... but for others, that aliasing noise might be part of the character of the snap.

Similarly for the filters, you could swap them out for more modern ZDF filters, but then you might need to spend time 'tuning' parts of the structure that were originally tuned to get the most out of those old Primary filters. And you would likely need to remove, or tweak some of the bundled snapshots.

It would maybe make more sense to approach it as a rebuild/reboot project? so keep the bare bones - UI, sequencing, and basic topology, but scrap all the existing sound generation and manipulation stuff and build it back from scratch, using the original version as a map.

Then there's the issue of creating or sourcing HQ samples... :)