EXS 24 Logic Sampler Users Group

resomania wrote:
> was wondering if anyone had a solution for this.  I'm sampling some R8
> drum sounds.  I was able to truncate the end of the short sounds, like
> snare drum, bass drum, etc.. However, when trying to clean up tom and
> cymbal samples, as the sound is decaying, hiss is prevalent from the
> gain of the input signal.  I've tried lowering the gain, and
> normalizing the signal afterwards, but still get hiss.  I've also tried
> cranking up the gain, but still get hiss then too. I'm going directly
> out of my R8 into my audio interface, so it must be the gain on the
> audio interface that's introducing the hiss. Does anyone have a
> solution for getting around this?

A) Get a better interface (perhaps the R8 is noisy on the outputs allready as well?).
B) Get some noise reduction software working with "noise fingerprints". You'd just record a bunch of the signal without any hits
happening, define that as a noise fingerprint and let the software/plugin do the job. Works pretty well for a lot of stuff, but of
course on critical sources (which cymbals defenitely qualify for) the noise frequencies might overlap with what you actually want
from the cymbal. Usually there's some "intensity" slider though, so you might find a setting reducing enough noise while keeping the
sample useable. I got some good results out of this method when recording old tapes into my computer, removed quite some hiss and
rumble sucessfully.

Cheers,
Sascha