alexis
Joined: 10/01/03
Posts: 1204
Loc: San Antonio, TX USA
|
NEWBIE: Sample Libraries - how are people using them?
#930413 - 26/07/11 04:33 PM
|
|
|
|
Hi - I've always wondered how people are using those, like the Big Fish Audio "Modern
Country" in this month's SOS.
In ignorance, I'd think unless the loop was at
the right speed, and in the right key, as an existing song I was working on, it would be
very hard to just insert it as is. Even with pitch and time shifting tools, the options
seem fairly limited.
So, is the purpose of these collections just to get the
creative juices going?
Or ... ?
Thanks for illuminating!
--------------------
Alexis -Cubase 6.5.0/SX3.1.1.944, XP SP2, 4GB RAM (1GB not accessible, but used just to balance the computer so it doesn't tip over); Delta 66 in Omni i/O Studio; Motif8; UAD-1
|
Wiseau
Joined: 25/08/04
Posts: 250
|
Re: NEWBIE: Sample Libraries - how are people using them?
[Re: alexis]
#930469 - 26/07/11 08:02 PM
|
|
|
|
The basic answer is use them as much or as little as you want. You could write to a loop I
guess.
There are loads of options, chop up loops - drum., perc, music , take
single notes and play them to create you own melody, chop the loops up and rearrange the
section etc.
I find this more satisfying, than just using a loop as is
I
use an mpc and makes the process a lot eaisier.
They can cost a lot of money,
but what you get can be some well recorded stuff.
I've got a few, and I've
heard sounds in commercial recordings, I've even heard synth audition songs.Don't think
samples and presets are dirty words.
But some 'royalty free' samples I've come
across have been taken from copyrighted music, so watch out.
--------------------
'You know it's a bad role when Nic Cage passes on it.'
|
Chaconne
Joined: 21/02/05
Posts: 1109
Loc: Oxford
|
Re: NEWBIE: Sample Libraries - how are people using them?
[Re: alexis]
#930472 - 26/07/11 08:09 PM
|
|
|
|
Well most DAW's can change the pitch and time of audio easy enough, so its not hard to
adapt loops to songs - or use them as a jumping off point, but a lot of the time they are
just used like box's of lego to make loopy fakes.
Using Ableton live, you
should be able to construct a useful backing track in the time it takes to drag the files
off the disc.
This is a slight simplification though. Sometimes you might be
getting a sampled instrument, a drum kit, or a mulitsampled guitar that you will use as a
VST, but a lot of them are aimed at people making music for T.V or film and are pretty
much cans of processed stuff.
--------------------
|
|
Previous
Topics
Next
Threaded
Edit
Reply
Quote
