How to Totally Control Sample Playback In EXS24?

[Reptil]

what you do is create multisamples of that instrument.
for each C note another sample, or, better yet, for each note another sample, or even better... different samples for each velocity (usually 4 layers) for each note.

there's software to do this automatically (since it's a lot of work, obviously)
probably will be in the next incarnation of Logic
Best Automated Sampling software to capture Hardware instruments.

[DJKlanker]

Aha! So if I have only one sample of the specific sound, I'm bound to have this aggravation? I would love to have a Single Source Sample Spreader in the next Logic incarnation.Thanks for your answer Reptil!

[Reptil]

Originally Posted by DJKlanker

Aha! So if I have only one sample of the specific sound, I'm bound to have this aggravation? ...

no, you can have pitchshift software (also within Logic) that doesn't change the length of the samples. you'd have to resample presumably.
RTFM it's all in there.

[DJKlanker]

Yeah you're right. I should at least have been thinking a little bit deeper.
So thanks to your advise my current thinking is that this does the trick:
1. Pitchshift your sample for each semitone 2. Bounce these as separate audio files 4. Drop the totality in EXS24, and there you are.

[Reptil]

yes, if you have no access to the original source (and cannot play and record each note)

[mp3]

If you need this functionality often enough, then you may want to think about investing in a sampler plugin that can do it automatically. Kontakt and MachFive v3 come to mind, but there may be others I'm not aware of.

Or since Apple just acquired Redmatica (Keymap Pro could create such programs), perhaps their tech will find its way into Logic 10.

[widdershins]

Remember though, if you use pitchshifting you're likely to introduce bad artifacts into the sound, however good the algorithm you use is. Also, instruments like trumpets don't sound exactly the same whatever note you play, so simply pitchshifting won't give you a realistic sounding sample instrument. Far better to multisample (take multiple samples of the trumpet at different pitches).

[GJ999x]

Originally Posted by widdershins

Remember though, if you use pitchshifting you're likely to introduce bad artifacts into the sound, however good the algorithm you use is. Also, instruments like trumpets don't sound exactly the same whatever note you play, so simply pitchshifting won't give you a realistic sounding sample instrument. Far better to multisample (take multiple samples of the trumpet at different pitches).

yep... i'd be wary of this, the limitations you found with the speeding/slowing stuff will also be there with any technique/software that tries to turn a single trumpet note into a whole trumpet set of octaves.