Re: Geist and sampling electronic drums
2014/01/16 05:55:04
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Geist ended up being a flop for doing sampling, and I ended up using Adobe Audition (v4) which I found out along the way has some very slick tools to make sampling simpler. In case anyone is interested, this ended up working so well that I sampled the entire kit off (552 samples). The only slow part of the procedure was renaming the files.
For those who have Audition available, here is how I ended up doing it.
Since the kit can put a sound on any pad, I simply used the snare and recorded files from 20-30 samples each. Once recorded, I did a quick noise reduction on the take (default settings), and saved the file with the sample batch in the name.
Next I used the "Mark Audio" feature, with custom presets (Define Audio >-65dB for 10 ms, Define Silence <-90dB for 500 ms). I found the silence had to be extended to give me the proper tails. Simply "Scan" and then "Mark All"
Then in the "Markers" tab at the top, select all audio marked and click "Export Audio of selected range markers to separate files." Again using folders to keep track of patches helped with renaming. The renaming part was the nasty part of it all.
Once named, I ran the batch process to "Normalize to -0.1dB" and made the settings to overwrite the original files.
Unfortunately, I had not used Audition enough prior to this to use this process from the start. Once I found these, I found the program very capable.
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