Sampling

[raboof]

I'm in band doing all kinds of covers, and we've been playing with the thought of including some `dance'-like songs (like daft punk or something).

Now of course it's tricky to play this kind of stuff `live' - especially getting the 'sound' right and keeping it `interesting'. The latter we might do by turning it into something of a mashup/medley.

As for the `sound', I wonder whether it'd be possible to lift some of the `signature' sounds from recordings, and sampling them to be playable `live' from MIDI.

I guess this is `sampling', but I'm quite new to all this. What would be a good place to start?

[raboof]

I found 'specimen' for playing/looping sounds at various pitches. Still have to fiddle with it more.

Right now I'm using Audacity for cutting up recordings - not sure if that's the most convenient tool for the job. Haven't looked into filtering out stuff (like drums or vocals) yet, pointers appreciated.

[studio32]

seq24 and specimen or sooperlooper/ freewheeling or linuxsampler?

[raboof]

seq24

That just emits midi signals doesn't it? I (for now) plan to do that with with a manual controller

sooperlooper/freewheeling

At first glance it looks like those loop 'just-recorded' sounds, rather than allowing you to carefully construct and `instrument' to use.

linuxsampler?

I should definitely check that (or its frontends qsampler/jsampler) out - doesn't seem to be a lot of beginners' documentation around for them at first glance.

The specimen author announced on LAD that he's basically putting specimen in maintenance mode, noting that `LMMS is more specimen than specimen right now'.

Specimen takes my MIDI signal and outputs properly-pitchshifted and looped renditions of the sound clips. I don't see how LMMS is an alternative: it doesn't seem to take MIDI input, nor pitchshift samples.