64 EDIT SAMPLE - RECORDING AND EDITING
Crossfade a timpani strike with a deep string orchestra. Use that sample, for
example, to crossfade with a big vocal chorus chord and use the result of that
to crossfade with a large orchestral finale.
Crossfade a thick synth bass with a string pad. Use that to crossfade with a
resonant filter sweep sound and crossfade the result of that with some strange
percussion loop.
Layer some strings on top of a piano. Use the new sample as the basis onto
which you layer a marimba.
Keep layering different synth string sounds on top of each other for a huge pad
sound.
NOTE 1. When mixing, splicing or crossfading samples in this way, any
loops which were present in the original samples (A and B) will not be played
back when you play back J. You must reset loops in J if you want them.
NOTE 2: The samples always use their base note (i.e. the note they were
sampled at) when employing any of these techniques. In other words, a string
sound sampled at C3 and layered or crossfaded with a choral sound sampled at
G3 would be a fifth apart. This cannot be corrected, even through tuning it in
ED.2 (see later).
NOTE 3: It goes without saying that you need to have sufficient memory
available to create these new spliced or mixed samples. You will be reminded
by the prvmpts if yog haven't!___________________________________________________
Though the process of creating the sound you want may take some time, it’s
possible you may discover some new sounds along the way which weren’t
quite what you were expecting, but could find a place in your work. The type
of sounds created here can be long evolving sounds which may find a place in
soundtrack work as they can be very dramatic.
Let us now have a look at some of the possibilities offered in ED.2.
EDIT 2 - TIMESTRETCH AND RE-SAMPLE
The ED.2 page (accessed from the SLCT or JOIN page) allows you to perform
some further sophisticated editing functions such as Timestretch and re
sampling.
THE PARAMETER PAGE - TUNING AND REVERSING SAMPLES
The first page we see is the PARAMETERS page (the first one you access when
you press the key) and looks like this:
o f sample: 73',F
o rig in a l p itc h : C_4
P itc h offset:+00.00 (sem i.cent)
type o f playback: LOOP IN RELEfiSE
loop tune o ffs e t: +00 cents <H0LD o nly)
b s s i P RR fi m s m a m i c ee
On the top line is the name of the sample you want to edit. As usual, this may
be changed with the DATA control. The parameters on this page are as follows:
Version 1.0 March 1993
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