Sampling electronic drums (Adobe Audition advice included)

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2014/01/10 18:43:22 (permalink)

Sampling electronic drums (Adobe Audition advice included)

I will have to follow up with this next week; but long story short, I bought Geist during the December deal to deal with step sequencer woes, but then found myself craving my kit (and tailoring one has become a pain in the butt). My drummer friend bought a TD-9 two years ago after I told her there was no way I am mic'ing up her standard kit, and I have been craving the kit I saved in her machine (I just find it so much easier to create kits on that thing)...
 
Anyway... after about a month of looking for samples, messing with tweaks, etc. I finally just point blank tell her "I want my kit out of that!!" to which she replied, "You mean the one that says "Michael!"???" which made me laugh. Anyway... the kit is on its way as I type this!! (Yippee!!)
 
I had to laugh since she said she hasn't had time to play lately anyway and suggested just leaving it here for a while... I have no problems with that
 
I think I have been overwhelmed by the samples available for download and trying to listen to/edit them... this has become a royal pain for me.
post edited by mettelus - 2014/01/16 05:57:00

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    Re: Geist and sampling electronic drums 2014/01/16 05:55:04 (permalink)
    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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