Sampling

[Editor]

OK, I'm well on the way to completing my album, tentatively titled ...

Musical Masturbation -- Me PLayin' With Myself

... but I haven't got a bass guitar so I am trying to make up a sample I can feed into Fruity Loops. So far, I have found a good fretless tone that rings out for about 2 seconds. When I put this into a sequence using different length notes, it, indeed, plays on for too long (I was hoping that the note would be staccato-like for short notes and have the nice watery ending on long ones).

What can I do to make it sound true?

(bass players: don't throw things at me please

 

[bsanfordnyc]

OK, I'm well on the way to completing my album, tentatively titled ...

Musical Masturbation -- Me PLayin' With Myself

... but I haven't got a bass guitar so I am trying to make up a sample I can feed into Fruity Loops. So far, I have found a good fretless tone that rings out for about 2 seconds. When I put this into a sequence using different length notes, it, indeed, plays on for too long (I was hoping that the note would be staccato-like for short notes and have the nice watery ending on long ones).

What can I do to make it sound true?

(bass players: don't throw things at me please

can you edit the samples? If so you should be able to perform some sort of "time slice" operation, shortening the duration but not increasing the tone.

I don't know much about fruity loops at all. But maybe you need to create several samples for each note duration you're trying to achieve.