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[Zarathunkya]

Usually on other samplers when I sample something at a certain volume it will play back at that exact same volume when I trigger the sample. However when I sample on the Microsampler, the volume reduces significantly when it comes time to hit a key to play back the sample.

What I end up doing is just boosting the hell out of the volume again when I record my performance out to the DAW. But the problem with this is that the 'background noise' is also boosted meaning a lower quality final recording.

I figure I must be doing something quite basic wrong somewhere? Any help is much appreciated.

P.S. My sample level is always at the default of +0.0 dB. And my sample rate is 48 k (whatever 48 k means).

Oh and one other question I had related to BPMs. The Microsampler's bpm tapper button is a lot more accurate than the MPC 2500's. However I'm still finding that I'm sometimes off by a fraction on some of these. I suspect it could be that when your sampling from a band, they aren't necessarily doing their thing to a precise, round number bpm. Does anyone know of any computer programs that you can wack wav loops into and have it give you an exact reading, i.e. 97.456 bpms?

Cheers people

[lloydsmith]

Presume you have remembered to set input gain to maximum level without clipping.

Myself I have gotten used to normalising on the machine or tweaking it up on the s/w editor but keeping levels constant between samples isn't made very easy by the fiddly interface. I use my DAW to correct clip levels once samples recorded into track.

Something like Sonar or Cubase has beat calculating that works out hitpoints of beat and thus tempo. Those are what I'm used to using anyway.

Hope that helps a bit.
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[Zarathunkya]

[Corbytender]

You should also try sampling in mono instead of stereo.