pisces7378
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Hey guys,
Although I live in Europe and are bombarded with Techno/pop/hip-hop everyday all day, I have managed to keep a sampler out of my home studio. Well I have a friend that knows a little about them, and he has finally broken me down and sparked my interest. I have e-Magic Logic Audio Platinum and so I am seriously considering going down and buying e-Magic's exs24 software sampler on monday. But I will absolutely not do it unless I have a few questions answered before I do it. Hopefully you guys will help me out a bit before I spend even more money than I already have.
1) Does a sampler have all the same perameters of Midi? What I mean is... once I pop the CD in the CD-Rom of my computer and load in the samples... and I press a key on my keyboard, if I hit the key harder will the sound be louder than if I hit the key softer?
2) I have 128 MB of RAM on my Pent III 933 Mhz PC running Logic Audio Platinum... will 128 MB be able to handle what I will be needing from my sampler? Here is a short discription of what I am trying to do and how I have been doing it so far.
First off, I have a Roland JV 1010 Midi Sound Module thatI controll through a midi keyboard controller. I run it all in through USB with a Midisport 2x2 from midiman. Now for drum tracks what I do is... I create 5 or so midi tracks for the drums. Track one is just high hat, track 2 kick drum, 3 is snare, 4 is toms, 5 cymbal crashes and other percussion sounds etc.... Now I have recently decided to dig a bit deeper than just rock n roll drums. I have been laying down some more beat oriented, bumpin´beats, but keeping them really really open and "unbusy", first with a more hip-hop/techno drum kit... then recording the midi tracks into .wav files and then changing the drum sounds into a more traditional rock drum set and working out a cool beat that complaiments and fits on top of (or along side of, depending on how you see things) and then recording that as a .wav file. This really gives the tracks a cool, past meets future, or Paris meets New York edge.
Now my problem is that my Roland JV 1010 has some alright drum sounds, but to be perfectly honest... you can hear that this sound module costs only around $450-.$475. It does a hell of a lot, but it doesn't really do anything PERFECTLY. I would love to find something that can do everything that I am doing, but with some new, cool, and exciting sounds. Plus I would like to be able to find a cool pre-done drum part and loop it through a few measures so that I might not always have to bang out drum parts for hours and quantisize this and that until I have spent a whole day on one 4 measure drum track.
I realize that this is a heafty post. So if you are still reading then I'd like to buy you a beer. So...
1) Can you quantisize using a sampler?
2) Where can you find samples (sounds and finished drum tracks)?
3) Do these samples sit on your hard drive and eat it up, or are they triggered from somewhere else. This would have to be a damn good system to trigger a "high hat track", a kick drum track, a snare drum track, a tom track, cymbal crash track, and any extra sounds. That seems to be quite a lot of work for a CPU and RAM. What is the story on that?
Sorry for the length of this post, but I assure you that your answer will be MUCH appreciated. By the way, I already posted this same question on the Computer Recording and Soundcards forum and only one guy answered me with about a 3 line answer.
Thanks guys.....
Mike
Although I live in Europe and are bombarded with Techno/pop/hip-hop everyday all day, I have managed to keep a sampler out of my home studio. Well I have a friend that knows a little about them, and he has finally broken me down and sparked my interest. I have e-Magic Logic Audio Platinum and so I am seriously considering going down and buying e-Magic's exs24 software sampler on monday. But I will absolutely not do it unless I have a few questions answered before I do it. Hopefully you guys will help me out a bit before I spend even more money than I already have.
1) Does a sampler have all the same perameters of Midi? What I mean is... once I pop the CD in the CD-Rom of my computer and load in the samples... and I press a key on my keyboard, if I hit the key harder will the sound be louder than if I hit the key softer?
2) I have 128 MB of RAM on my Pent III 933 Mhz PC running Logic Audio Platinum... will 128 MB be able to handle what I will be needing from my sampler? Here is a short discription of what I am trying to do and how I have been doing it so far.
First off, I have a Roland JV 1010 Midi Sound Module thatI controll through a midi keyboard controller. I run it all in through USB with a Midisport 2x2 from midiman. Now for drum tracks what I do is... I create 5 or so midi tracks for the drums. Track one is just high hat, track 2 kick drum, 3 is snare, 4 is toms, 5 cymbal crashes and other percussion sounds etc.... Now I have recently decided to dig a bit deeper than just rock n roll drums. I have been laying down some more beat oriented, bumpin´beats, but keeping them really really open and "unbusy", first with a more hip-hop/techno drum kit... then recording the midi tracks into .wav files and then changing the drum sounds into a more traditional rock drum set and working out a cool beat that complaiments and fits on top of (or along side of, depending on how you see things) and then recording that as a .wav file. This really gives the tracks a cool, past meets future, or Paris meets New York edge.
Now my problem is that my Roland JV 1010 has some alright drum sounds, but to be perfectly honest... you can hear that this sound module costs only around $450-.$475. It does a hell of a lot, but it doesn't really do anything PERFECTLY. I would love to find something that can do everything that I am doing, but with some new, cool, and exciting sounds. Plus I would like to be able to find a cool pre-done drum part and loop it through a few measures so that I might not always have to bang out drum parts for hours and quantisize this and that until I have spent a whole day on one 4 measure drum track.
I realize that this is a heafty post. So if you are still reading then I'd like to buy you a beer. So...
1) Can you quantisize using a sampler?
2) Where can you find samples (sounds and finished drum tracks)?
3) Do these samples sit on your hard drive and eat it up, or are they triggered from somewhere else. This would have to be a damn good system to trigger a "high hat track", a kick drum track, a snare drum track, a tom track, cymbal crash track, and any extra sounds. That seems to be quite a lot of work for a CPU and RAM. What is the story on that?
Sorry for the length of this post, but I assure you that your answer will be MUCH appreciated. By the way, I already posted this same question on the Computer Recording and Soundcards forum and only one guy answered me with about a 3 line answer.
Thanks guys.....
Mike