KVR Audio

hifiboom · Post by **hifiboom** » Mon Aug 07, 2006 4:24 pm

is there a tool that simply transfers my audio sampling CDs to WAV by cutting the single samples and generating a wav file for every sample?

I don't like to cut paste the samples on my own...

of course I have tools to transfer audio->wav, but not with the cutting feature...

anyone?

BertKoor · Post by **BertKoor** » Mon Aug 07, 2006 4:32 pm

cdex (from sourceforge.net) for the ripping, and Waveknife from a German Space Taxi for the cutting. Still two steps alas... Have to live with it!

The smallprint says you may not use it for getting some dry claps to be fed through hardware and software reverbs for comparison purposes

jones-y · Post by **jones-y** » Mon Aug 07, 2006 4:39 pm

Audiofinder, but its Mac only...

hifiboom · Post by **hifiboom** » Mon Aug 07, 2006 5:39 pm

thx

I think Waveknife is what I searched for.....

It even has noise floor, so it should work fine....

hifiboom · Post by **hifiboom** » Mon Aug 07, 2006 6:19 pm

wow its powerful. Just sampled the complete ZeroG Datafile one within 10min...
only sorting in some folders neeed a little time...

really nice!!!

liars&ashes · Post by **liars&ashes** » Mon Aug 07, 2006 6:33 pm

----I can't imagine bothering with samples that weren't cut into loops, and tempo & key mapped. Those programs that rip the .wavs off audio sample cds don't tag them, and that's 1/2 the hassle really, to get them ready for use workflow-wise. It just seems like some 80's throwback situation, like before computers when tempo mapping wasn't really useful since the sampling machines couldn't read it or do anything with it. Do some companies still release audio only sample cds ? And people still buy them in 2006 ?

Jeff

hifiboom · Post by **hifiboom** » Tue Aug 08, 2006 11:35 pm

liars&ashes wrote:----I can't imagine bothering with samples that weren't cut into loops, and tempo & key mapped. Those programs that rip the .wavs off audio sample cds don't tag them, and that's 1/2 the hassle really, to get them ready for use workflow-wise. It just seems like some 80's throwback situation, like before computers when tempo mapping wasn't really useful since the sampling machines couldn't read it or do anything with it. Do some companies still release audio only sample cds ? And people still buy them in 2006 ?

Jeff

no but in fact some people still have good old sampling audio CD. And they want to use it with Windows platform....

Timestreching alows you to reach every tempo with every sample....

so no big problem here...

And I think some old samplingCD have more and better samples than many new ones....

Depends on taste....

liars&ashes · Post by **liars&ashes** » Wed Aug 09, 2006 12:11 am

----Well, I could understand, 20 years ago, and up until 8-9 years ago even, but not once Acid came out. Yet if you go and search online for sample cds, tons of them have no tempo or key information. The problem with no tempo information is that most hosts will just guess then, and they are often right, but when they are not, it sounds like crap, then you have to pull it into your project and start messing with the properties just to hear it time stretched from it's real original tempo, what an insane hassle. And if it's not key tagged, well, good luck unless you have really really good ears, cause there is no program that does that for ya, not reliably, and not for more than one note at a time. Anyways, whatever works, I just can't believe anyone would waste their time, let alone their money, on untagged samples/loops after 2002 or so, whenever the last of the big audio hosts was finally coded to read tempo and or key info.

Jeff

small tool for transfering AUDIO Sampling CDs to WAV Files?