Questions tagged [sampling]
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tips for making a more realistic "live drummer" sound with only audio samples
I compose and produce my own original electronic music songs and I generally only have trouble with one aspect of music: the drums. This is the only major instrument that I have no formal (or informal) training with. The real reason I never picked…
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Getting good result with sox pitch command
I am trying to transpose a sample across several octaves so I have a sample library of, in this case, someone singing "doo".
I recorded a sample in the middle of the range, and bulk transposed this to all the other relevant pitches using the sox…
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Why sample at 196kHz when human ear can only hear within a 20kHz range?
It is my understanding that samples should be 2x the highest frequency sampled, but I'm confused as to why samples are taken beyond a 40kHz range if the human ear can't tell the difference either way.
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How to make a sample/note sustained or long in Reason 4?
In Reason 4, some notes play as long as the red bar in the editing window continues. Others have just a single touch with no release and no matter how long the bar, they don't sound continuously.
How do I achieve this effect in such cases?
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Where can I license sample libraries for a virtual iOS instrument?
I'm making a virtual instrument for mobile devices. Where can I license a sample library from for this purpose?
For example I would need individual audio files for individual piano notes. The license would would need to permit my mobile app to play…
Oscar
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Acid Pro alternatives for OS X
Ten years ago I learned how to use Sony's Acid Music in Windows XP, since it allows to compose music using samples and more important, it can automatically match tempo, pitch and lots of other useful things.
Now I am using Mac OS X, I was wondering…
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Sound sampling rate for insect mapping project
I am an amateur entomologist (and complete Noob to the audio world) and would like to use an array of several microphones to triangulate and map out populations of calling insects. The idea is that the microphone array would be attached to a weather…
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