Questions tagged [samples]
For questions regarding the creation and use of electronic reproductions of synthesized or recorded sounds or portions of existing work. Sampling is specifically electronic, as opposed to, for example, quoting a piece of music during a live improvisation.
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How would I use a sound bank with a few notes to create a full range of notes?
I am looking to create a software in which a key from the keyboard would play a note. So I downloaded a sound bank and I was surprised when I noticed only a few notes were there.
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Genre of this Sample Library [closed]
I'm music Producer and trying to achieve this type of "samples" Music.
What Genre are these "samples"?
Can you recommend me some music that sounds like that?
What instrument do i ...
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A Question about Avid Sibelius 2021 and Kontakt (.nki) instruments
Since Sibelius is just using a version of Kontakt in the background to play its own sounds, can I build Sibelius Soundsets that are based on nothing but the .nki files in my authorized Kontakt ...
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What is the lowest scientific note on a piano (for sampling)?
Why do these audio samples start at a different note on each loudness? Pp starts at Bb0, mf starts at B0, and ff at A0. I'm wondering if the reason is because of some technical reason that I don't ...
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Guitar digital samples library [closed]
Looking for tone samples digital files, free or commercial.
So far I found Nicholaus P. Brosowsky library with 37 tones from A1.wav to G3#.wav:
https://github.com/nbrosowsky/tonejs-instruments
Here is ...
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How to select and organize samples of electronic drum sounds?
I'm familiar with programming realistically sounding drums. Many programs include sampled real drum instruments organized in kits, such that the included drum samples sound good together. All that's ...
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Difference between drum sounds and melody sounds
I would like to learn more about the kind of sounds used in music that can make a scale discernable. Regular drums for instance do a bad job, even if they can be tuned. I've no idea if that's true ...
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What is a wise Drum Samples Naming Convention?
I recently bought some groovy new tools for sampling drums and percussion. I really want to approach this seriously and see myself doing quite a bit of this going forward. But right now I'm at the ...
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Importing other multisample formats into Bitwig
I'm aiming to use the Maestro Grand piano multisample with Bitwig's sampler. It is in GigaStudio/Gigasampler (.gig) file format. I tried putting it in $HOME\AppData\Local\Bitwig Studio\installed-...
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How can I transform a MIDI file of a vocal performance back into something that sounds like a voice? [closed]
Given a MIDI file how can I transform it something that sounds like the vocal cadences on the wikipedia.org/wiki/Candence entry? I understand that the end result will be an audio file and not a MIDI ...
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Looking for accoustic percussion sound pack.Can be both free & paid [closed]
I'm looking for a sample pack (or vst plugin, but I think there are none) with accoustic percussion. Right now I'm using sibelius to write the sheetmusic directly. But I would like to switch to FL ...
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Cannot seem to discover what scale is used in a sample (Dm F Em D♯)
I've stumbled upon a sample in one of my sample packs from KSHMR it is labeled as Dm-F-Em-D♯ Progression, I'm new to music theory and just recently started learning how to find scales but this one, in ...
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Understanding the complex world of midi controllers, DAWs and live playing: what software should I use?
So here's the scenario:
I play drums and mallets (marimba, vibes, etc.) and currently own a drumkit and a 4.3 octave padouk marimba. However, I'm looking into buying a Pearl MalletSTATION. The ...
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What are some easy methods of making score typesetting software sound better?
The timbre and dynamics of sound samples used in scoring softwares (like Sibelius, notion and musescore) are not always very convincing. The build-in playback is very good at making nice music sound ...
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How can I practically check audio parameters?
Is there any way (may be program or by hand) to check audio parameters? I ask because I heard somewhere the hi-res audio websites are at certain titles fooling people to believe they bought hi-res ...
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Using additive resynthesis to avoid sample clearance?
Is it possible to avoid having to get a sample cleared by dropping it in an additive synth with re-synthesis functionality and messing with the sine waves a bit to change things up slightly while ...
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Are most modern drums in pop/hiphop/edm music synthesized?
I was wondering if the drums that I hear around me on the radio/youtube/etc for the most part are synthesized or sample based. And even if they are samples, were they originally created by synths?
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What sort of samples you need to record for a good flute sample pack
I would like to create a sample pack of the Native American flute. I am new to this, but having looked around, you don't need thousands of samples in a sample pack, just maybe 100.
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Where can I get Native American drum and flute samples [closed]
I would like to be able to dynamically compose music using JavaScript using the sounds like from this video. I don't know where you would even begin. Do I need to record it all myself or is there some ...
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The gist of how you create varied pitched/volume realistic drum samples in JavaScript
Like this, what do you need in terms of drum samples to do something like this and have it sound like that native american drum, with dynamic loudness and duration and depth, it's not just the same ...
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How to check the quality of an audio sample?
I'm new to the music scenario and EDM production. With so many options of FREE samples out there, I'm wondering how to best check the quality of a sample? Bit? Khz? Wav? Are there any software that I ...
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Can a song be made entirely of samples?
I'm just wondering what the point is of synth instruments (manipulating waveforms) if I can just use samples for everything. For example, say I sample a single middle-c piano note. My understanding is ...
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Will characteristic acoustical properties of real instruments also be observed when using high quality digital samples?
This - comment - has stuck with me, because it described an unintuitive property of oboes. I wouldn't have thought oboes in parallel thirds sounds out of tune. Then I wondered if it would be the same ...
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How to get good legato from a choir sample library?
Recently, I have bought a choir sample library from a major manufacturer. The samples themselves are top-notch, the dynamic crossfading excellent. However, I'm a bit disappointed by the quality of the ...
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Do I need to EQ frequencies before layering or after?
I want to create kick-samples, snare-samples, etc... by layering recorded samples (e.g. 909-Bass-Drum + click + crunch). Also I want to cutoff frequencies to get suitable samples for the mix. I use ...
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Is there a term for when lyrics are integrated with words from a sampled beat?
Is there a term for when the lyrics of a song are integrated with words from a sampled beat? I see this particularly in hip-hop. For example, the hook from Game's "Dreams" has lyrics:
Lettin' the ink ...
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Is it possible to import an Ableton sample file .adv into the Launchpad app (by Ampify)?
I made a sample file in Ableton and would like to put it in the launchpad app. Is there any easy way to do this? I would like to be able to choose which sample thing to assign to each button.
I'm new ...
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Sample Library: Orchestra vs Band
I'm an amateur composer interested in purchasing a high quality orchestral sample library like Garritan Personal Orchestra. The problem is that I plan on composing a piece for my schools concert band, ...
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Electribe ES-1 and Mbox 2
I have a Korg Electribe ES-1 MKII and an old MBox 2, using Ableton Live 9 as DAW. I want to set up the ES-1 via Midi and Audio to my DAW. The MBox only has 2 Inputs and Monitor, Headphone and SPDIF ...
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How to import a piano sound from a VST plugin into a synth?
I am using a Roland XPS 10 synth that allows us to import sounds sampled from VST plugins into the memory of the synth and play. From what I know right now, the file that I have to export from the DAW ...
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tuning a recorded sample to another
I can't figure out how to tune a sample so it matches another, previously recorded sample. I understand there are combinations of samples that won't ever match, but that can't be the case as often as ...
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Standard scratch samples used in every dang song ever
I'm trying to find out where artists get those cheesy stereotypical scratch samples a la 24K Magic (Bruno Mars), My Name Is (Eminem), 69 Boyz songs, etc. Maybe they're from some ROMpler keyboard?
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How Do You Change the Pitch of a Sample In Alchemy Without Affecting Speed?
If you take a vocal sample and drop it into Logic Pro X's Alchemy in sampler mode, can you play the samples at higher than normal pitches without the speed of the sample getting faster? I know there's ...
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Hyperthreading when using Vienna Ensemble and Reaper
I'm not sure if there are computer experts on this platform, but this board seemed more reasonable to choose than a pure "computer hardware forum" on StackExchange. :)
Do you think or know whether a ...
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What's the best way to play variable-tempo samples live?
When I play with my band, I'd love to integrate background samples into our music. However, our group isn't fond of playing to a click track.
Ideally, when a sample is to be played, we could dial in ...
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Ableton impulse drum rack switch
I like to use the preset racks in Ableton Impulse. The problem is I for the life of me cannot figure out how to switch the positions of the drum samples. Say I wanted to have the kick drum in 3rd ...
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Creating music tracks from samples in ableton live
Hello everyone I just wanted to ask that is it possible for to remake a track from samples in ableton live?
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Batch create high quality audio renderings of midi files
I have a bunch of midi files that I would like to convert to audio files through some kind of scripting on OS X. When searching for ways to do this, fluidsynth comes up time and Timidity are two ...
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Electronic music beats: Sample or Synthesis?
When creating electronic beats, I have a hard time deciding if I should really use a synthesizer to sequence my whole rhythm section. Sometimes I end up using samples or recording something close to ...
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How can I slice and modulate samples in Logic like Ableton's Slice To Midi feature?
Ableton Live has particularly strong capabilities when it comes to converting audio to midi and vice-versa.
One particular feature is the ability to take a sample of audio, and simply click a button, ...
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Sampler Track Resets In Logic Pro X
I've chopped up an audio file into smaller pieces, selected them all and created a sampler track through the Convert To New Sampler Track feature in Logic Pro X. I've set the project to copy audio ...
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How can I extract or recreate audio for one or more instrumental/vocal parts from a recording?
(In the spirit of this meta-post, and so, in response to this question…)
What approaches can be taken to extract or recreate audio for one or more individual parts from a recording with several ...
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Editing larger sound files in Kontakt 5
I am using NI Kontakt 5 sampler editor. And when I try to delete some unnecessary sounds, the program starts to act like it's working on the removal, but nothing happens.
This happens only with ...
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Time-aligned sound samples
if you were to provide an application and a set of samples that a user can use to compose rhythms to be played back by a sequencer, whithout having to care about time-aligning, how would you save ...
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How to import samples to Korg iElectribe app for iOS
As far as I can tell from some youtube videos, it is possible to use different drum samples in the iOS iElectribe app by KORG, but I can't figure out how or find any documentation on this. Does ...
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