Loading Many Multiples of chopped Samples to play across keyboard

I used to build such things with Kontakt - been awhile, but I built up replica recreations of some of the Pink Floyd sounds (I made them from scratch), for the beginning of Time (clocks), and cash registers and coin sounds for Money, so that my band could play these tunes live.  I had different register sounds and coins on different keys, like what you are trying to do - if I understood your post properly.

That worked pretty well - I do not at the moment know if one could do that with Dim Pro - if I get enough coffee into me I will take a look at doing so and will post back later on today.

Bob Bone

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That worked pretty well - I do not at the moment know if one could do that with Dim Pro - if I get enough coffee into me I will take a look at doing so and will post back later on today.

Bob Bone

You can, but then you have to get into making your own SFZ files, AFAIK.

Dropzone only supports 2 different elements  at a time.  The OP wants to map many across the keyboard.   

yeah - any decent sample editor should allow you to construct this kind of mapping - I happen to own Kontakt, and it is really pretty solid for me - scook had some good ideas there too.

Bob Bone

There's no way to actualy do it with Sonar.  I have tried.  As others have pointed out, you can chop samples and drag the pieces into session drummer, but that is not even close to what you are used to.  The sfz solutiion is even worse because it would require it be done for every single sample. Kontakt or even geist will give you what you need.  otherwise what eq said is the best you are going to get for now using Sonar tools.

Sharke, will it map a chopped sample similar to this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y1-vDTsmN9M

downloading the demo. Think i tried it years ago and it is more along the lines if a sample player like dim pro than full fledged sampler but it's worth a try. Sucks that Poise is only 32-bit or it would be a good low-cost MPC styler solution

DubDisciple, how did Independent stack up? That Cubase video was straightforward and thats what I was looking for with sampling in Sonar. 

I'd be pretty willing to buy a new software sampler if it can do this function which I am requesting. I'm not looking for the most feature packed/complicated. Just a function similar to the Exs 24 at a price point perhaps. I'm not looking for libraries and libraries of sounds either.

Do Native Instrument's kontakt or Fxpansion Geist have any tutorial videos showing how to do this easily? Maybe a just a write up on how to? 
I have to say I love Sonar for its learning curve and being somewhat similar in nature to Logic. But this one thing is very important to me in how I made music, and really distracts me from all that is good with Sonar. Maybe I shouldn't be so fixated. Thank you all for the replies. I was guess and checking how to do this in Sonar myself, and it wasn't working out.

Hi hmtawil ! 

I know what you mean with Logic and EXS24, this is one awesome feature of logic, to be able to transfer any audio to a sampler channel easily.

There are no way of doing this as effectively in Sonar, maybe with Beatscape? or even the matrix ?

Otherwise, I would take a look at either NI Battery, or Kontakt.

Cheers ! 
V

Actually Battery sounds like a good idea, it's so easy to drag samples into the cells and map them to keys. Don't know why I didn't think of this before. 

I was going to try kontakt out, then I saw the price. After hearing Battery was easy to map samples, I tried out the Battery 3 demo. And sampling was actually really straight forward and in your face, instead of stuff happening behind the scenes. 

All I did was save a groove clip using save loop, saved it as a wave file. Within Battery's built in media browser, I opened up the Acidized wave file I was talking about, and It automatically opened a big enough grid of samples, and layed them out across the pads/keyboard. Many more sample clips could have been loaded as there were blank pads left to be used. Its a small mpc style pad/grid looking vst when you first open it, but it definitly expands quit a bit. There's even an easy drop down menu to change the grid size manually. The samples played one after the other, cutting each other off. Pretty sweat.

Then I just tried dragging and dropping to see the effect. I just loaded a new/blank kit. Changed the grid size, then selected all the chopped samples, dragged then over the pad/grid ui in battery 3. The grid/pads highlighted yellow, I let go of the mouse, boom, they were ready to be played/saved as a kit.

Thanks for that Geist video. That was pretty dope. Really dope actually. Kinda makes me want it, seeing as how battery 3 and Geist are in the same price range. 

Not going to lie though, Battery made it really easy to load the samples, much like I wanted. Thanks for all the suggestions. As it stand right now, I'm going to download Geist demo and decide between the two, but I don't think you can match Batterys user friendly sampling ability (besides Exs 24, whom I still Love) 

Thanks for the input everybody. If anyone has anything else to add, I'm always all ears.

Battery is also a first rate drum machine. The kits you get with it are excellent, it's a breeze to make your own, the in-house processing is great and it's an absolute doddle to set up the multi-outs (unlike Kontakt). I think it's one of my most used plugs, I never thought about using it to trigger chopped up beats though. Great idea. 

Or you probably can get a second-hand licence of it, or Komplete somewhere online,
like at KVRaudio forums, or eBay...

FYI' Battery3 has been around for a while, if ever you find a licence for Komplete 5, 6, or 7 on the cheap, you'll get the same version of Battery in the bundle, only, you'll have Kontakt 4, and less samples. which IMO is no big deal.

Cheers ! 

V

I can just see the Public Service Announcement where the kid gets caught clandestinely creating his own Reaktor synths and tearfully proclaims 'I learned it from you!"