The Art of Sampling - JJ Jeczalik

[ChamomileShark]

After spending a little time with the library I wanted to make some comments.

It's a bit of an eclectic mix, there are a number of Art of Noise type samples, but not all of them.

Some of the samples are looped although JJ says in an interview that he didn't really like looping. The looping is quite noticable but I think on the original Fairlight you couldn't do an exact loop, something about blocks of 256 samples?

I found a number out of tune, not merely that they aren't all C, some are A(ish), some G(ish). I checked a few and while some are dead in tune, some are out by 13, 20, 35 cents. Easy enough for me to sort for one shots using melodyne to find the nearest semitone and then tune it to that semitone.

I wonder if some of the "grey area" re copyright might be down to two things. If JJ made the sounds but they were then used on a record then is the copyright transfered to the record compny/ publisher / band who released that track? That might be the reason why a number of iconic sounds aren't there.

My other thought is that it would appear a fair number of samples are from records. They might still be in copyright, many are a bit longer than "Orch5" so you might be able to work out where they came from. One is the best female vocal samples I can hear faintly the backing track. That might have been something they did at SARM and I'm just hearing the overspill?

Anyway my conclusion is that for me there re some interesting sounds as a bit of a completist it was worth the money.