Joining multiple samples

[superpower]

I have several WAV samples divided into musical notes of the name sound. How do I join these several samples in order to create one WAV sample like 99 Sounds Project Exodus samples for playing on the MIDI keyboard? 

[whyterabbyt]

Samplers generally dont need samples to be joined to be able play them across the keyboard etc. They can map one sample to one specific note (and some can map multiple samples to that note at different velocity ranges, and do more sophisticated stuff still, all based on individual sample files). Kontakt, which is what Project Exodus uses, works like that.

Project Exodus itself comes as a set of 127 Kontakt Instruments and there are 127 samples If you actually open the instruments up in Kontakt you can see that each has one single sample mapped across the entire keyboard. Its not a sample that 'contains' multiple sounds, the Instrument is set up play back that sample, repitched, across each note; its just one sound. You can verify this by opening the samples up in a wave editor like Audition.
Setting up a sampler to play one of several 'regions' inside a single sample is probably going to be more fuss than using multiple separate samples.

If you do need to join multiple samples together sequentially, though, that can be done in a DAW or an audio editor; it'd basically be a case of copy-and-paste to arrange the samples. Audacity is free if you don't have an audio editor already.

[DSmolken]

There's a utility called sox which is good for converting files, joining mono files into multichannel ones etc. I think it also does concatenations.

[thecontrolcentre]

An audio editor is the way to go, but as whyterabbit pointed out, there's no need to join samples together in order to add them to a sample player.