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Synthage · Post by **Synthage** » Mon Nov 27, 2006 3:57 pm

Im currently trying to sample up a hardware synth, at the moment im playing every note one by one, cutting it up manually.. renaming them manually
exporting them

Im wondering if there is a faster way of doing this

I can only imagine there must be some dedicated tools i could buy for this purpose!

any help would be appreciated

duncanparsons · Post by **duncanparsons** » Mon Nov 27, 2006 4:09 pm

Fastest way to do it is to play everything really quickly in a higher octave, then downsample.

DSP

Sorry, that's probably not very helpful...

BertKoor · Post by **BertKoor** » Mon Nov 27, 2006 4:16 pm

WaveKnife at www.spacetaxi.de is great for cutting the samples

But you could also reduce the number of used samples. Sometimes only one sample is sufficient, but most times only 3 or 4 notes per octave with 4 velocity layers will do very well.

And there are some automated tools that send midi commands and make a soundfont automatically. Some simular threads:
http://www.kvraudio.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=154426
http://www.kvraudio.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=138653
http://www.kvraudio.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=145610
http://www.kvraudio.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=146238
http://www.kvraudio.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=143934

zircon · Post by **zircon** » Mon Nov 27, 2006 4:16 pm

DiscoDSP Highlife and Image-Line DirectWave both have automatic sampling functions built in, I believe.

lung · Post by **lung** » Mon Nov 27, 2006 4:24 pm

Extreme Sample Converter (ESC) is a great program and makes this easy. Can get it cheap if you own Wusikstation. Looks like there is a discount now until Nov 30. I admit, I am a user.

From the link above:

HARDWARE CONVERTER (SAMPLING OF YOUR HARDWARE):
- sampling hardware instruments.
- working with ASIO and MIDI.
- possibility of using several midi channels at the same time to record more that one instrument simultaneously.
- audio latency compensation.
- midi latency adjusting parameter (trimming to correct sample start).
- patch normalize option, you don't have to care about input gain's just start record and software automatically gain samples.
- sample normalize, each sample will be gained to possible highest volume.
- ASIO Monitoring, by clicking on mapping you can listen sounds
- with MONIT. SPLIT (split monitoring) button switched to on you and moving a splits you can hear sounds releated to its velocity.
- built-in silence detection algorithms allows you to find a correct start and end of recorded samples
- reasuming it is possible to record a samples first, send to an external audio editor for editing and then convert finally to destination format

Synthage · Post by **Synthage** » Mon Nov 27, 2006 4:24 pm

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BertKoor wrote:WaveKnife at www.spacetaxi.de (http://www.spacetaxi.de) is great for cutting the samples

But you could also reduce the number of used samples. Sometimes only one sample is sufficient, but most times only 3 or 4 notes per octave with 4 velocity layers will do very well.

And there are some automated tools that send midi commands and make a soundfont automatically. Some simular threads:
http://www.kvraudio.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=154426
http://www.kvraudio.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=138653
http://www.kvraudio.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=145610
http://www.kvraudio.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=146238
http://www.kvraudio.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=143934

superb thanks a lot... sorry for asking a question that has been answered so many times before..

thx again

PTV · Post by **PTV** » Mon Nov 27, 2006 4:34 pm

ArcDev's Synthcatcher is free
http://www.kvraudio.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=136051

Fastest way to sample an instrument