Re: Software question

[Simeon Harris <simeonharris40@googlemail.com>]

yes, i've had great results making simple samples of my ambient guitar
sounds. once you get beyond the normal range of guitar, some really
amazing sounds start appearing, especially if you use some of the
sampler's more interesting functions and any built-in fx that it has,
like envelope controlled filters etc.
the pitch shifter i was using in the tc g-force at the time was
monophonic, so sampling allowed me to play full chords on the
keyboards that i could only play monophonically on the guitar. hours
of fun, i can tell you! :O)

On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 12:36 PM, Per Boysen <perboysen@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 12:27 PM, Petri Lahtinen
> <kollegavalmentaja@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Thanks Per! I noticed that too, that it is NOT Live he's working on.
>> The exact software was in question, but maybe it really is the Sampler
>> http://www.ableton.com/sampler
>
>
> For what he does it really is not important what sampler and what
> sample editor he is using. Setting up a multi sampled patch is basic
> and any decent sampler will let you do that. More important is how you
> adjust the instrument when creating it, but that's up to your own
> taste. And the process is "magical" just as he says in the video. I
> have created multi sample virtual instruments from my tenor sax, my
> alto flute and my Fender Stratocaster with tube top and two Marshal 1"
> cabinets and I too have experienced that my acoustic instruments
> become a bit different while still keeping their own personality in
> the digital domain. For the Strat I recorded every note both as a
> plucked attack and as a screaming air feedback overtone (the full
> process, like ten second's overtone birth process) and both these
> samples are layered on the appropriate MIDI note. For the tenor sax I
> also made two recordings of each note; one with a soft "Ben
> Webster-ish" tone and one with singing behind the bamboo reed to
> create overtones (Sander's style). Well, all I can say is that
> sampling is truly amazing, you will see when you get going with it...
> :-)
>
> One last cool thing I have to mention is the option you get with
> Live's Sampler to have the sample played back in different directions.
> This was common in the early days of sampling - then because it
> provided "longer pads" with a shorter sampled note, as RAM/sampler
> memory still was an issue - and sadly this functionality disappeared
> from many modern samplers (like the Akai S+ series, that I worked a
> lot with in the nineties). But Live' Sampler does that. Some may think
> it is good that Sampler is so integrated in Live while others find it
> a limitation. Over here I have Sampler but I tend to use Kontakt more.
> Kontakt is more advanced but I imagine very few really needs that
> extra stuff, but some folks needs some of the sample libraries
> available on the market for Kontakt. Especially if you want to do
> symphonic orchestra mock-ups "in the box" Kontakt is the way to go if
> you want to also sample. The sampler I use the most though is the
> EXS24; it comes free as part of Logic/Mainstage and is very fast and
> easy to work with.
>
> Per
>
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