Mainstage 3 auto sampler9/18/2023 ![]() ![]() Yes it wastes disk space but it's being pragmatic about the whole thing. The lazy person could just go through sampling a pad on an analog synth, sampling for example 25 seconds, knowing they will never hold the chord for longer. (As a side it's becoming more difficult to find good sample looping software so these products are a blessing even though they aren't meant to be full blown editors).ĭo you have to loop? Not really. It seems ESCs looping editor offers the most options. I have brought WAVs into SR and done batch auto-looping on them and it works very well. SR and ESC have sophisticated algorithms and editors for tuning or choosing alt loops. It is very basic in Si and if it can't locate one it just sets it to no loop. All three products offer auto-looping which sets out to automatically find the best loop points. The guy glosses over manually finding the loops in the Nord/Omnisphere example but it really can do challenging. So SR and ESC have the most flexibility but Si will work well for most situations.įinding the best loop points is a PITA especially with more complex source material. Si has a brilliant feature which will end recording once the input falls below a certain dB, so no wasted audio and it seems to work well (they all should have this). Very useful in recording pianos or other string instruments where the decay time is faster as you proceed up the scale (no need to record C7 for 25 seconds). SR has a nice feature where you can set the the hold time of the lowest note and then a different value for the highest. ESC allows independent hold and release times for each zone. SR requires the layer to be uniform for all notes while ESC and Si allow you to have one note with six layers and the next note to have 12 for example. Si is apparently limited to 16, but all allow you to precisely set the layers top velocity, an important feature. SR and ESC allow up to 127 velocity layers. I don't know that ESC is being actively updated, the other two are though. But, I've used SR a lot on the Mac and it's a very stable product, on both platforms. ![]() There are times when this is a small issue, but finding the keyboard equivalent usually is all that's needed. SR is both but runs on OSX as an XQuartz app so it's pure Windows app in functionality. They all do much the same thing but there are some important differences.ĮSC is Windows only. There are three main products: Sample Robot (SR), Extreme Sample Converter (ESC), and SampleIt (Si). If you stretch notes, the sweep will either be slower or faster than the original depending on placement. With a paraphonic synth the oscillators share the EGs and filter.īUT, if you want a very precise sweep so that each note is identical, you would need to sample each note of the original instrument. Voices on a polyphonic synth have independent osc, EQs and filters. 5 seconds later G and the filter envelope is set to sweep the filter, each note would have its own sweep. How do you deal with sampling programs whose tones change over time? If I play the resulting program in mainstage and sustain a chord, wouldn't all of the individual filters on each note interfere with each other? If I was to autosample, each individual note would be sampled with its own closing filter. I hold down a chord, and the synth filter closes according to its envelope, modifying the sound of the chord. Suppose on my hardware synth I create a program with a filter sweep. I have a good friend who has a pristine OB-8 who is letting me come over with my laptop, etc., to sample some sounds. So many eye opening ideas get shared here. Just another in the long list of things I love about KC. I've tested them by playing them from other keys/controllers and I'm a happy camper. So very easy to use, and I now have the very unique sounds I programmed in the FA-08 in Mainstage. I check out a couple tutorials on setting up Auto Sampler. Most of the sounds I use are easy enough to recreate in the various VI's I have, but there are a few that I've made on my FA-08 that no matter how hard I try, just don't cut it.Įnter the light thru the stained glass window moment (Blues Brothers). We are beginning to book some fly in gigs, and I am creating some concerts in Mainstage so I could travel with my laptop and not have to haul my FA-08 all over the country. After reading another thread about someone wanting to sample their slowly dying DW8000, the light bulb went off in my head. ![]()
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