

I think it's the price you pay for samples with high resonance. It's at quite a low level - I have VSTs with much more prominent noise - but it is definitely there.

Noise in the CFX Lite samples has been talked about before here (see this thread for example) and I also hear it. If you have that "limit" button, please deselect.įirst of all, loved the playing and the harmonisation. There is a "limit" button on CFX Full that screws up sound somehow but I think you don't have that on CFX lite. They told me it would not matter and to run the VI at best performing rate for my laptop (whatever that means). The Garritan helpdesk would not tell me if the CFX was recorded in 44.1 or 48khz. Generally, I prefer unadultered audio files over mastered ones but the noise is a bit irritating on Garritan CFX. The CFX has a some room and production noise that was not taken out in the mastering process. Regardless, I think you should kill any "normalization" in GarageBand. I think you could also manually "normalize" dynamic range with the CFX>Advanced>Dynamic Range dial. Not sure how manually "normalizing" the VIs via the software "output volumes" impacts sound quality but I think you want to run these with "volumes" pretty high but without any clipping. You can compare these characteristics with free software on the internet. This is in line with what I hear on decent monitors also. the Vintage D might have more dynamic range Quickly eyeballing the SoundCloud level "bar chart":
