24 Mar
2004
24 Mar
'04
12:51 p.m.
On Wed, Mar 24, 2004 at 10:24:42AM -0500, Chris Metzler wrote:
[...]
piano line and generate it through a sampler. But
that brings my
first question -- if you don't own/play the instruments in question,
where do you get the samples? I've done a lot of web searching,
and found tons of drum loops and bass lines that are two measures
long and so forth, but don't find much in the way of e.g. individual
notes on basses.
And I wonder about how people use the extended samples I find.
It seems kinda constraining, to be stuck with a melody/harmony
line given to you by whatever someone sampled. Of course, there
are tons and tons of samples available; but then, in order to
express the music you're hearing in your head, you're gonna be
spending hours and hours trying to find samples that work.
The Answer would be sample CDs. They may contain everything from a Grand Piano,
with each individual key sampled at different velocities, with/without pedal
etc. to readymade drumloops/vocal hooks that you can hack together a crappy
dance music track within mere seconds :)
They come in specific formats for different hard/software samplers (Akai,
Gigasampler etc.) as well as generic formats like a CD-ROM with .wav files
or simply an audio CD.
See this vendor site for examples: http://bestservice.de/index.asp?lng=3
cheers,
Christian