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gandjcarr wrote on 8/26/2013, 12:59 PM

Hi,

What speakers are you using to listen to this.  It could be that the frequency response of the speakers (laptop or desktop) simply cannot reproduce those lower frequencies.

George

cpc000cpc wrote on 8/26/2013, 5:08 PM

And, at about 16Hz (cycles per second), it may be that your ears don't hear it even if your speaker are reproducing it somewhat. For many the effect is more felt than heard. 

Added: Following on from Procyon's comment about 'natural range', here's a list of the fundamental frequencies (lowest / ignoring harmonics) of many instruments:http://www.contrabass.com/pages/frequency.html

Regards,

Carl

Procyon wrote on 8/26/2013, 7:14 PM

The important question is....what instrument(s) are you using?

The virtual instruments are designed to emulate tha actual instrument and therefore only play within the natural range of the real instrument.  If you want un-natural sub-tones, you'll need to use a synthesizer, virtual or real.

You can always play as low as you can and then pitch-shift the track an octave lower, although the results may not be as nice as you'd like.