??? creating soundscapes with wave files???

so, I have 102 distorted, messed up samples that I created, and i wanted to create a set of soundscape's using dimension pro.

some of the samples are pretty long, and if i load them into dimensionPro, they pitch change, and speed up- the higher up the scale you go. how do you get it to keep its original time? (hope that makes sense) can this only be done using sfz?

I tried reading the book "cakewalk synthesizers", but all i found was basic patch making with already included wave files.(ok...so i didnt dive into it to much)

I am assuming i need to add loop points also to get the sounds to sustain.(easier said than done)

so, how would i go about getting these samples loaded in so that i can mess with them?

here are 3 examples- -->sf_waves<--

I wanted to create an ongoing sample, with 3 samples fading in and out on each other with added effects...so that when you hold down the key...it would go on forever until you let the key go. each sound would roll over one another. not sure if thats possible...or if I should give up...and hand everything over to someone that knows what he/she is doing...lol.....

maybe I should just stick to what I'm good at...and leave the programing to the programers...

some of the samples are pretty long, and if i load them into dimensionPro, they pitch change, and speed up- the higher up the scale you go. how do you get it to keep its original time? (hope that makes sense) can this only be done using sfz?

This is the nature of traditional sampling. You have time, and pitch. If you want to change one, the other also has to change. There are two ways to get around this so that each note on the keyboard sounds closer to the original:

-use a timestretching sampler. Not many of these are around. All I can think of is Kontakt2. To my knowledge this isn't possible with Rapture/Dpro. This often can sound strange though - as timestretching has a variety of artifacts that range from glitchy to flanged etc.

-multisample. This means creating different wavs for each note, or every third note or whatever you decide. This is the traditional solution. Of course it means plenty more work creating the wavs, looping them, processing etc.

As a possible alternative, you might want to try additive resynthesis. One advantage of using this technique is that you won't end up with timestretching artifacts or break points where it becomes obvious that you switched to a different sample. The disadvantage is that the resynthesized sound won't sound exactly like your sample, but if you are working with abstract soundscapes as opposed to realistic sounds, this might not be a problem.

I'd recommend you have a look at discoDSP's Vertigo demo, as this has the best resynthesis engine with the most options.

~additive resynthesis

doesnt Dpro do this also...using sfz?


Well I'd say no. But mumpcake is on to something. There are several synths that can do additive synthesis
It is a very complex thing.

Now resynthesis is a different animal to synthesis.

Pitch_keytrack=0 will allow a wave file in the sfz format to play like a drum sound where the pitch does not change over note range. After listening to the examples you posted several are of the don't chage over range type.

So if you loaded say example 002 using sfz like this example

<Region>
sample=(location) 002
pitch_keytrack=0

then each note would play the unaltered file without any change in time/pitch.

to set location rclick the wave file an do properties. Copy paste the location at top of properties box.