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Sampling your synth

Sampling your synth

2007-03-15 by antonfarstad

Hi.

Now that some of my synths are becoming old I fear that they might 
break down one of these days. I have a very shakey SD-1 that I 
desperately need to sample before it breaks down on me.

I am now considering sampling all my favourite patches. 
Im using Gigastudio and Kontakt these days and I have used the 
Instrument Editor that comes with Gigastudio.

What I was wondering is how many samplingpoints and velocitypoints I 
should use? I have heard that sampling each third note is usually 
sufficient. As for velocities, I have no idea.

Does anyone know of any app that would automatically create good loop-
points in samples? Looping all of them manually would be too 
timeconsuming Im afraid. This isnt a huge problem though. I could 
always make very long samples (20 seconds or more) now that disk-
space isnt an issue. 

Share your experience on this matter as my gear just keeps getting 
older and my wallet keeps getting thinner :)


Cheers
Anton

Re: [Ensoniq-VFX-SD] Sampling your synth

2007-03-15 by reverb@rogers.com

Well although it's Mac-only, it makes light work of what you want to do:

"Autosampler" by Redmatica is designed for sampling your synth patches, then saves them in exs24 format. While I have not used it myself, I have heard it's amazing: you connect your synth via MIDI, hook up the audio, tell Autosampler which keys, which velocities, and the duration of each note. Autosampler will then play and sample each note for you at each velocity and automatically set up a complete keymap so that your sampled patch responds exactly the way the original synth did.

I'm guessing you're not a Mac user, but for what it's worth I see people raving about this app.

(you wrote:)


What I was wondering is how many samplingpoints and velocitypoints I
should use? I have heard that sampling each third note is usually
sufficient. As for velocities, I have no idea.

Does anyone know of any app that would automatically create good loop-
points in samples? Looping all of them manually would be too
timeconsuming Im afraid. This isnt a huge problem though. I could
always make very long samples (20 seconds or more) now that disk-
space isnt an issue.


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