I'm moving in a bit of a different direction with the project I'm working on and using a VSTi is going to be fine. The end result will be exported to mp3, actually.
Anyway, I have a couple of questions as Instruments appear to have a lot of options in how they can modify the sound of a particular sample. For instance, how does the volume envelope work? I loaded a Crash cymbal from the midi sounds and when played in the sample editor it loops forever.
Playing it in the instrument editor and it seems to play a shortened version while including it in a pattern seems to just keep it looping forever...
Is it possible to have it go ahead and loop, but fade with every execution (not necessarily just fade with a new note)?
Also, I'm having quite a bit of fun with the slayer 2 guitar VSTi, but having one problem. (btw, if there are any other good guitar VSTi's out there I'd love to know about them... this one is good, but stops working periodically because it's a demo).
I learned through trial and error that you'd have to load it in a few times to different fx slots to get different effects (in different instruments) and it appears to work right everywhere but in the pattern editor.
Example, i have the same VSTi loaded 4 times. One plays chords with a longer sustain, one with chords that end quickly, and two more with single notes (long and short).
These options work if playing notes in the instrument tab, but in the pattern editor, the instruments that should be much shorter are held...
In the meantime, the == in the pattern editor does fade it out.
Thanks again to everyone!