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
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>
> 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.
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> Per
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