[Dream] Drums - sampled? - Sound Forge

[Joshua Tinnin]

On Fri, Mar 30, 2007 at 01:49:03PM +0100, Doofus McFluoro wrote:
> Yeah we are back to triggering through vst's though and that wasnt what I was
> talking about.  I was litteraly talking about loading the samples straight into
> an audio track (or several audio tracks).  You have to have a fat PC to do this
> simply becuase you end up neediong a lot of channels, but it is being done this
> way by quite a lot of the pro's nowadays. 
>  
> Why do I think its better doing it this way?  Well its quicker than mapping
> everything out in a sampler for a start.  Its also easier to manipulate
> individual samples... particulatly when mapping FX to certain portions of the
> of audio. 
>  
> For instance if you wish to apply inserts or modify ony one hat out of (say)
> every four. In a sampler you would have to apply the effect to all the notes
> played from the sampler... whereas I can choose individual notes.  Graphicaly
> its easier as again I can modify note leangth of any individual notes (reverse,
> stretch, eq, pitch etc) and select 'create new version' so that it doesnt
> affect all the copies.  Its also so much easier to track the percussion if you
> can see it laid out in front of you on the same screen you use to write. 
> Finaly it is much easier to mix down.
>  
> Really what is the use of using a sampler to trigger your samples?  Unless you
> want to trigger them live from a keyboard I cant see the point.  Just a lot
> more fiddling around and I am unsure of what the advantages could be.

Well, at least for me the advantage is that I can write percussion parts
on something akin to a staff, and I can easily change the entire
arrangement by changing the samples, instead of having to write entirely
new tracks. Plus, I can't control samples laid out on an audio track
through a keyboard. I also like being able to apply midi parameters to
samples, so it's played like a real instrument. But I'm going to try
writing drums into audio tracks for now, before I get a sampler.

- jt