Re: looping drums,samplers etc.

[Walt Blackler <whb4@cornell.edu>]

This resonates with me.  I am trying to do the same with a couple of Macs
(gasp!) using samples of real stuff to make my own stuff (not using midi
intruments or sample patches).  Just trying to create original stuff. -Walt


>The recent talk of samplers, and the hope that others are thinking along
>the same lines brings up a few questions. How many of us spend most of our
>time fiddling with bits of gear at home, trying to improve the quality of
>our music ? Our main instruments ( guitars, keys, sticks and the like )
>don't pose too many problems when it comes to knowing what sound we're
>looking for ( whether we get it is another matter.. ) and we're fairly
>familiar with the gear required. But say you want to record some drum
>loops ? Not just your crappy drum machine but the kind of loops that sound
>realistic ( DJ's Shadow, Spooky, Krush, Torns's last CD all have great
>drum sounds - where'd they get 'em ?) I once sampled ( using the 2.5 sec
>one shot sampler on my Digitech Tsr24 ) the drum fade out  on the first
>Black Sabbath album ( 'Behind the wall of Sleep' I think ) and then
>recorded both that and a loop from the guitar onto tape. The outcome was
>infinitely more pleasing than most things I'd done using an Alesis D4 drum
>module. The 'real' drum sounds made my efforts sound almost, well, 'real'.
>So, anyone want to discuss the gear required to bring the rest of our
>music into the real world ?
>Adat ? Da88 ? , Samplers ?, Computers ?, Emagic,Cubase ?
>
>All the best
>Andrew