Highlife baby-steps for lowlife user, please?
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- KVRist
- Topic Starter
- 272 posts since 15 May, 2006
Real life's getting in the way of Highlife - I'll post as soon as I get the time.
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- KVRist
- Topic Starter
- 272 posts since 15 May, 2006
Sorry for not replying sooner. It's not good etiquette to ignore helpful advice but I'm doing the decent thing in responding, however late I may be. 
The idiot returns. I've finally had a chance to play with Highlife again, and thanks to Shamann, I've made a little progress. But not much.
Firstly, Highlife is my first sampler, I don't have a MIDI keyboard controller (I use a virtual keyboard program), and I'm a musical numpty. Secondly, from tweaking Highlife I dimly perceive that it's a fantastic program capable of revolutionising my neaderthal approach to electronic music-making. Thirdly, yes, I'm an idiot. Let me explain...
Following Shamann's helpful advice, I tried to load a WAV file that was part of a multisample. This worked OK, but I couldn't work out how to load the next WAV in the multisample set and so on, let alone save the loaded multisample as a Highlife bank.
Newbie question: When you have multisample WAVS consisting of A, A#, B, B#, C, C#, D, D#, E, E#, F, F#, G, G# I presume the first WAV you try to load is C as Highlife seems to like C3 as a root key? If so, how do you map the sample? If the next note up is C# then what range do you choose for each note?
As for slicing - I'm getting there, and I've had great fun slicing a loop, then drawing blocks in a MIDI editor and dragging them hither and thither to create a completely new drum break - but it's all witchcraft to me. Never mind, just a little more "blow by blow" instruction from a stray KVR member and I'll never darken your collective door again.
...and the effects section seems like a Rolls-Royce. If I ever get the pesky program tamed, I think I'm going to buy Highlife dinner - with coffee afterwards.
The idiot returns. I've finally had a chance to play with Highlife again, and thanks to Shamann, I've made a little progress. But not much.
Firstly, Highlife is my first sampler, I don't have a MIDI keyboard controller (I use a virtual keyboard program), and I'm a musical numpty. Secondly, from tweaking Highlife I dimly perceive that it's a fantastic program capable of revolutionising my neaderthal approach to electronic music-making. Thirdly, yes, I'm an idiot. Let me explain...
Following Shamann's helpful advice, I tried to load a WAV file that was part of a multisample. This worked OK, but I couldn't work out how to load the next WAV in the multisample set and so on, let alone save the loaded multisample as a Highlife bank.
Newbie question: When you have multisample WAVS consisting of A, A#, B, B#, C, C#, D, D#, E, E#, F, F#, G, G# I presume the first WAV you try to load is C as Highlife seems to like C3 as a root key? If so, how do you map the sample? If the next note up is C# then what range do you choose for each note?
As for slicing - I'm getting there, and I've had great fun slicing a loop, then drawing blocks in a MIDI editor and dragging them hither and thither to create a completely new drum break - but it's all witchcraft to me. Never mind, just a little more "blow by blow" instruction from a stray KVR member and I'll never darken your collective door again.
...and the effects section seems like a Rolls-Royce. If I ever get the pesky program tamed, I think I'm going to buy Highlife dinner - with coffee afterwards.
Read reviews of free netlabel/Creative Commons music at Catching The Waves, a most amateurish free music blog. @catchingthewave
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- KVRist
- Topic Starter
- 272 posts since 15 May, 2006
Umm, this is very embarrassing, but I gave up on Highlife (sorry, I just CANNOT work out how to load and map samples). However, its effects section is such fun that I'm going to try again - if anyone could kindly write instructions for an eight-year-old that explain how to get the bloody thing started. Maybe it's me, but I seem allergic to the part of the GUI that actually lets you shove stuff into Highlife. The rest of the program seems fairly straightforward; once I've mapped everything I'll be set fair for aural mayhem. And in case you're asking yourself just how obtuse I can get, I point you to my signature...
Thanks.
However, its effects section is such fun that I'm going to try again - if anyone could kindly write instructions for an eight-year-old that explain how to get the bloody thing started. Maybe it's me, but I seem allergic to the part of the GUI that actually lets you shove stuff into Highlife. The rest of the program seems fairly straightforward; once I've mapped everything I'll be set fair for aural mayhem. And in case you're asking yourself just how obtuse I can get, I point you to my signature... Thanks.
Read reviews of free netlabel/Creative Commons music at Catching The Waves, a most amateurish free music blog. @catchingthewave
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- KVRist
- 297 posts since 15 Jun, 2007
Shamann, thanks for that reply ... you just made that program that much easier to understand for me! I just wish that the range mapping control wasn't so clumsy... clicking and dragging my mouse to set note ranges is annoying!
My question is - in the same way that you can use "sync split" to automatically split your loop into bits - so that playback starts from a different spot... are you able to do that and make highlife add in end points at each of those "splits"i.e if the sample was split into 4... it would play from 1-2 as one sample.. 2-3 as the next 3-4 and so on...automatically ? instead of having to manually map the end points?
Thanks,
Vinay
My question is - in the same way that you can use "sync split" to automatically split your loop into bits - so that playback starts from a different spot... are you able to do that and make highlife add in end points at each of those "splits"i.e if the sample was split into 4... it would play from 1-2 as one sample.. 2-3 as the next 3-4 and so on...automatically ? instead of having to manually map the end points?
Thanks,
Vinay