In addition to the excellent ideas and rants previosly posted... Few sounds transpose well across a keyboard when sampled... even differnt sines will have there "sweet spots" where they sound good and where they sound wack (i.e., a sine made from a SH101 filter versus a Pro-One raw sine oscillator when they are sampled.) We often sample analogs for certain effects, and alot of times in works best just to sample each note for an octave or two that's in the key of the song (every note you'd use to make a bass riff for that track)... There is no point in doing this however, unless you want to use the samplers editing and parameters to enhance the sound, or make an old analog sound "midi" that doesn't have midi. Personally, I'm not a big fan of sampling a synth note or riff just for the hell of it, because every sampler imparts it's own "sound" or unique fidelity -yes, even the almighty Emu- on everything it samples and converts back into analog audio. I use a Virus frequently as well, and if i don't need to use the Emu's filters or whatever on it, it goes directly into Logic. Same with analogs. I love wrecking sounds by gaining to +98 and bit reducing then resampling, all that creative stuff... but if ya just need a nice, fat PWM pad from the Virus, there's no need to get all crazy figuring out how you can properly resample it. Just go with it.
Have fun. Lata, Donovan substrata In a message dated 3/13/02 3:01:14 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: << I posted this on DOA, posting this here to see what you guys reckon..............this doesn't just apply to Emu samplers by the way.... Ok so far I've been using my Emu just for breaks and simple one shot stuff. It seems to me that its possible and a lot of people use their sampler to maximum effect by using more advanced techniques than what I'm using!. I've picked up some sample CD's with some synth sounds, which include "C3's". This is where confusion sets in. I get the impression that by taking this one sample on its "C3" you should be able to make a proper keyboard range out of it....in other words from one sample you should at least be able to make a whole octave range ( or more? ) out of it...right? I hear the same kind of thing with people using their samplers for bass. They take a one note bass sample and make an octave range out of it. I get the impression most pro's use their samplers for their bass as the filtering options are greater, however when I've tried this by taking a sub bass sample and trying to make an octave range from it the attack on the lower notes in the range seems to be a lot slower ( because to lower the pitch it also lowers the tempo/sample length. Should I be setting the lower notes in the range to different groups in the EMu and setting these with faster attack times to compensate? Seems like a lot of fiddling when I have good synth presets in my virus made up already. What benefits would I get from sampling synth sounds and bass?? Conversly I feel that I'm not using my Emu to full effect yet, cos all I'm using it for is firing off breaks or drum hits, and to be frank, I coulda done that with audio in Cubase! So I guess my question is how extensiveley can you use your sampler, just by taking a one note sample to create bigger keyboard ranges. I'm interested how extensiveley you use your sampler and what techniques you employ. I'm intereested to learn how much you use your sampler, what you use it for and how you go about getting the best out of it when sampling synth and bass sounds. How do you make your bass keyboard range from a one shot bass sample, whats involved? What about synth samples? Do you ever/are you able to take a one shot synth sound and make a broader keyboard range out of it?? Lets hear some techniques for getting the most out of yer sampler. Easy, Will --- Drum&Bass Arena Producers Discussion List http://www.breakbeat.co.uk You are currently subscribed to dnb-prod as: [email protected] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
