What is resampling

[birrbits]

Definitions, like language (and music) are never static, and so can change. And many words in any dictionary will have more than one meaning. Since The Grid is about dnb (which is music) and the original question was about how it's used in dnb, then my definition is very much correct for this question.

I'm not questioning the original formal definition, it just doesn't answer the question set by Equilibrium.

I hear what your saying, unfortunately what happens when definitions bend like this is that a great deal of confusion arises.
example: dnb artist asks for resampling plugin... what does the programmer assume? what reccomendations does the dnb artist get from the rest of the music community?

[Barbed Wire Kiss]

Definitions, like language (and music) are never static, and so can change. And many words in any dictionary will have more than one meaning. Since The Grid is about dnb (which is music) and the original question was about how it's used in dnb, then my definition is very much correct for this question.

I'm not questioning the original formal definition, it just doesn't answer the question set by Equilibrium.

I hear what your saying, unfortunately what happens when definitions bend like this is that a great deal of confusion arises.
example: dnb artist asks for resampling plugin... what does the programmer assume? what reccomendations does the dnb artist get from the rest of the music community?

Agreed. There's a predant in all of us. Funnily enough, someone on DOA not long ago was bemoaning that there was no soft samplers that have a 'resample' function, and presently there's a thread on DOA talking about the use of 'resampling' breakbeats, where part of the way through the thread someone confuses the two terms.

[The Chase]

It's not those DOA sillies have their definitions down anyway. For proof, ask the definition of a "reece" or even how to spell it.

[declassified]

those DOA sillies

While there's a couple of twats around (but not more than in other forums), it's a very valuable production resource.

But we have went through this before

[hollowsun]

Re-sampling is the process of ... errmmmm ... re-sampling a sample! However, there are many interpretations of the meaning of the word.

1. You have a sample, you whack it through your sampler's filters, envelopes, FX - whatever - and re-record the sampler's outputs to create a new sample. For example, you have a lack-lustre snare drum sample - you process it with sample editing, you place that sample in a program/patch, you apply filtering and envelope shaping to tidy it up further then add some punchy compression and a stereo room reverb and you re-record (i.e. re-sample) that sound to create a new, punchy stereo snare drum sample which you can use as a single sample without using your sampler's resources (IYSWIM)

2. Processing a sample at a different sampling rate/bit-depth in some off-line process.

3. A combination of the above.

Generally, "re-sampling" means sampling a sample after some processing has been applied to the source sample. This might be by way of an off-line sample processing procedure or by (somehow) re-recording said processed sample again with processing applied to create a new sample.

Steve