Hi,

My question concerns midi synchronization and audio files, hoping it’ll save a lot of precious time to those reading this !
I am gathering cool drums sounds from .wav files to use within various VSTIs (drum samplers such as loopazoid, LM4…). When I want to build my own drum kit from scratch with different audio files, I have to spend hours triming those (i.e. cutting a too long gap at the start of the file) so that, for example, a nice bass drum effectively falls right on the beat in Cubase when a VSTi activates it through midi.
Is there a clever software or function (in a wave editor, cubase or other), which could do this job for me ? I’m wondering what’s the best ways to get everything synchronized*** to build a drum kit ?

*** synchro between the .wav files altogether, but also with other midi events in Cubase (preset drum kits, synths… the standards of midi sync. basically !)

Thanks for your precious advice.

Fred

There is this freeware programme called WaveKnife which can be used to trim Samples.

http://www.spacetaxi.de/sf/waveknife.html

You only have to specify a threshold level. Every constant signal below this threshold will be cut out that is the silence at the beginning of the sample.

Hope this helps...