KVR Audio

chrisby · Post by **chrisby** » Sat Dec 18, 2004 4:40 am

I have an old pcmcia sound card (roland scp-55) that only runs under win98. Before I get rid of it (and my win98 machine) there are a couple of banks I want to sample and build a soundfont (or something similar) of. Never done that before but quickly found lots of guides online. From what I gather if I sample the banks I'm interested in at three volumes per note it'd probably be overkill but I'd definitely have all the raw sounds I need but... nobody seems to say much about sample lengths? Assuming that the sounds aren't swirrly evolving pads or anything, is there an ideal sample length? Thanks for any info....

C00kie · Post by **C00kie** » Mon Dec 20, 2004 10:05 am

Whatever works... Some sounds can be looped happily with a sample of .05 sec, others need more. You got a huge task set for yourself!

Are you absolutely sure the card won't work on Win2000? Or is it an ISA card and the new PC only features PCI?
Edit: never mind the last bit, I read just now its PCMCIA

lo3q · Post by **lo3q** » Mon Dec 20, 2004 10:31 am

C00kie wrote:You got a huge task set for yourself!

Yes, that's a lot of hard work just to get those sounds, especially if you're going to loop them, too.

Did you consider looking around to see if you can pick up an old Roland midi tone module on ebay (eg SC-55). Even the newer ones often include the sound sets from older Roland products, as well as new sounds.

That's because Roland/Edirol generally tried to keep them fairly compatible, so a midi sequence recorded on an SC-55 (for example) would play back nicely on a newer module...

And... the soft synth built into Windows XP and 2000 uses Roland samples, so I guess (if you're lucky) it might happen to have the exact sounds you want.

chrisby · Post by **chrisby** » Tue Dec 21, 2004 3:23 am

Hi, Thanks for the replies... well as I mentioned I'm a definite novice at creating samples so maybe it's more work than it's worth. Basically I envisioned just creating a chromatic midi file of whatever length notes, recording that and using soundforge to chop them up. I noticed that there are a few "auto loop point" programs out there and was hoping that one of them might do the job. If it's really only a by hand jub then definitely it wouldn't be worth it.

I've tried the various roland sw emulations and expected them to, as you mentioned, be pretty similar but for the sounds I'm interested in the sw vesrion just didn't really cover the original sound. Anyway, thanks again for the suggestions... Guess I'll just record the tracks to audio and leave it at that. thanks again.... chris

Ideal raw sample length?