sample triggering

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hi all...

I've recorded a song in midi, a combination of midi and audio. One of the melodies in the song is sequenced, but I don't like the sound an dI don't find a better sound in py synth. I have some really cool samples to use, but how can I trigger those samples with the recorded midi. Is it possible to trigger a sample with midi information of Cakewalke

Thx all

bye
 
By samples do you mean loops? Or just note events?

If the latter, the samples need to be loaded into a sampler to trigger from the sequence. Does your sound card support Sound Fonts or DLS? Then your sound card is a useable sampler.

You could also load the individual notes as WAV events and edit their length and such, but that would be beyond tedium...
 
I mean note events actually. I have a sounndblaster live platinum as a soundcard...
 
SOUNDFONTS ???????

COULD SOMEONE PLEASE EXPLAIN SOUND FONT; iTS ALL GREEK 2 ME
 
Well, I'll try.

You know that audio data can be saved in a variety of formats? WAV, AIFF, and so on?

For use in samplers, it's also useful to have information about performance parameters, like which patch number you want assigned to this sound, or how fast you want the sound's volume to come up when the file starts playing, or what happens to it when it receives MIDI aftertouch messages, and so forth. This is extra information that is not stored in a standard raw sound file.

For years samplers from different manufacturers have had their own proprietary formats to hold all this information -- raw sound data and performance data -- together in one file. If you look at a sampler CD-ROM catalog you'll see some in Akai format, some in SampleCell format, etc.

Well, a Sound Font is just another example of this. A Sound Font file contains sound sample data, and performance information that is applied to the sounds. Loading a Sound Font into a sound card is much the same as loading up a banbk of sounds off a CD-ROM into an Akai sampler, or plugging a Roland memory card with some set of instrument sounds on it into a compatible synth's card slot.

The result is that a Sound Blaster or other Sound Font-compatible soundcard is not limited to playing sounds stored in its General MIDI soundset, but can load up any sounds that are stored in Sound Font form.
 
SOUND FONT ANYONE ?

DOES ANYBODY KNOW OF A WEBSITE WHERE I CAN LEARN ABOUT SOUND FONTS?

IT LOOKS VERY INTERESTING.

ALSO CAN YOU EDIT AND/OR CREATE SOUND FONTS WITH SOUND FORGE?

THANKS.

WARI
 
THE WEB RULES !!!!!

THANKS ALCHUCK

SOUND FONTS ARE A NEW WORLD FOR ME.

I'M GOING TO SIT BACK AND ENJOY THE RIDE

THANKS AGAIN

THE WEB RULES !!!

WARI.
 
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