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Staccato chord at the end of orchestration solution

Is anyone else getting a staccato chord in the end of the orchestration solution?

For example, I’m using a percussion-resonance sound (a pan lid) as target. The orchestrations I get always feature a kind of staccato chord just before the end! I don’t know why this is happenning…

Thank you

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Hello, of cours this is the “Orchids signature sound” :slight_smile:

More seriously, this is indeed something that we witnessed a lot in our trials (and we gave it this nickname). And this is actually something that tipped us about a major flaw in the Partials computation. In fact, with medium complexity targets, the system tries to “over-optimize” with the remaining instruments and starts to try to put instruments where there is even a small-to-useless event (such as end of a sound where the loudness drops) … This lead to a strange staccato in the end.

We are actually working very hard to fix the partials-related issues and will make a new release (0.9.1) that fixes all of these problems before the end of this week !

All the best,
Philippe

Thanks Phillippe. Will wait for the updated version.

Nice presentation at the Forum, by the way!