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Message posted by Exdy <mskumikostar@...>:

Hey, I'm a brand new user to the EXS24, and I realise that my question is
probably a really simple and an easy thing to fix, but bare with me!


I have a guitar sample that I'd like to use on multiple keys at multiple
tones. I've set up a single zone, ranging an octave, and put the sample as
the root key in the centre. I have successfully set this up so the sample is
indeed transposed on each key, but as I'm sure you're all aware, the length
of the sample is changed too which is an unwanted side-effect.

Is there an easy fix for this or do I have to transpose the sample, bounce
it, change the length with the Time/Pitch machine, save the files and then
add THEM to the separate keys in EXS24?

I'm pretty certain there's an easy solution for this that I'm missing, as I
would imagine that a lot of people require the sampler to work in this
way... Or is this too complex a thing for the EXS24 for to do on it's own?



Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks in advance.

At 08:35 AM 8/1/2007, you wrote:

>Hey, I'm a brand new user to the EXS24, and I realise that my question is
>probably a really simple and an easy thing to fix, but bare with me!
>
>I have a guitar sample that I'd like to use on multiple keys at multiple
>tones. I've set up a single zone, ranging an octave, and put the sample as
>the root key in the centre. I have successfully set this up so the sample is
>indeed transposed on each key, but as I'm sure you're all aware, the length
>of the sample is changed too which is an unwanted side-effect.
>
>Is there an easy fix for this or do I have to transpose the sample, bounce
>it, change the length with the Time/Pitch machine, save the files and then
>add THEM to the separate keys in EXS24?

I like that solution; would be nice if you could get an original 
sample that was pitched higher or lower. Most multisampled things get 
pitched samples from the original source at about 2-3 pitches per 
octave. (More or less depending on your anal capacity or the need of 
the sound; e.g. vocals don't transpose well, while soft strings do.)

Just out of interest, Tascam released a free piano instrument that is 
made out of just ONE piano sample! It's more for geek showing off, 
but it uses impulse manipulation and other techniques to "stretch" 
the piano sound to be legit up and down the keyboard, and also 
replicates an valid velocity timbre. But that takes a lot of special 
technology and certainly isn't applicable to the EXS24.

SampleTank has a Stretch feature that is more formant based then 
impulse based, but it can go a fairly good job at making one sample 
work across a wider range of pitches. It's really cool, especially 
when working with vocal phrases and licks.

Garth Hjelte
Sampler User

Exdy wrote:
> Message posted by Exdy <mskumikostar@...>:
> 
> Hey, I'm a brand new user to the EXS24, and I realise that my question is
> probably a really simple and an easy thing to fix, but bare with me!
> 
> 
> I have a guitar sample that I'd like to use on multiple keys at multiple
> tones. I've set up a single zone, ranging an octave, and put the sample as
> the root key in the centre. I have successfully set this up so the sample is
> indeed transposed on each key, but as I'm sure you're all aware, the length
> of the sample is changed too which is an unwanted side-effect.
> 
> Is there an easy fix for this or do I have to transpose the sample, bounce
> it, change the length with the Time/Pitch machine, save the files and then
> add THEM to the separate keys in EXS24?
> 
> I'm pretty certain there's an easy solution for this that I'm missing, as I
> would imagine that a lot of people require the sampler to work in this
> way... Or is this too complex a thing for the EXS24 for to do on it's own?
> 
> 

There's a very nice bit of software that will help you:

Keymap (from Redmatica)

I think this will do the pitch/time thing and then autocreate your 
instrument with sample on every note.


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Pete Thomas
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