Preview Audition samples

[stephenuk]

I have a huge selection of samples on my SM card, is there anyway you can preview the samples first without the whole tedious task of having to create a program first?

[billbaker]

That would depend of format.

A Windows Media Player will play a sample in several formats, .wav being the most common. If all you need is to hear the sample that would be one way to do it. It's not ideal for listening to raw waveform samples, some of those can be so short that you'll have a hard time hearing the full character of the sound.

On your keyboard, an INIT program will (should) have enough parameters set up so that any wave or sample dropped in under the oscillator page will result in a sound such that you can make a fair judgement on it. I'm not sure of the step-by-step, but you should be able to access samples on a card in the same manner you would pull up a ROM sample for use in a program. It won't be great, and there will be a lot of room for improvement and customization but it will be audible and should give you an idea of what your starting point in the process is. That's something that you should be able to do with quick scrolling and won't require that you set up a full program for each sample.

Alternatively, you can use a synth (non-INIT) program to audition synth samples since many of the parameters typical for that instrument will be programmed. [This BTW is also a good way to explore making your own sounds with on-board samples.] Same for general instrument sounds: EP, Guitar, Strings, Brass, etc. -- all of your third party samples will sound mo' better dropped into the appropriate template program.


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[stephenuk]

That would depend of format.

A Windows Media Player will play a sample in several formats, .wav being the most common. If all you need is to hear the sample that would be one way to do it. It's not ideal for listening to raw waveform samples, some of those can be so short that you'll have a hard time hearing the full character of the sound.

On your keyboard, an INIT program will (should) have enough parameters set up so that any wave or sample dropped in under the oscillator page will result in a sound such that you can make a fair judgement on it. I'm not sure of the step-by-step, but you should be able to access samples on a card in the same manner you would pull up a ROM sample for use in a program. It won't be great, and there will be a lot of room for improvement and customization but it will be audible and should give you an idea of what your starting point in the process is. That's something that you should be able to do with quick scrolling and won't require that you set up a full program for each sample.

thanks for the reply but what i mean is having to load 150 bassdrums to hear them first is not what i wanted to do. i meant just being able to preview the sample your going to use before setting it up properly eg i have a kurzweil k2000 and it will audition about 2 seconds of a wav file so u can hear it before loading it. the format is wav bit even then i cant seem to get them to load off the card as it just keeps saying file unavailable. i can convert them to korgs native sample format but awave only converts the samples to mono not stereo which sucks if you want to use a stereo loop.

Alternatively, you can use a synth (non-INIT) program to audition synth samples since many of the parameters typical for that instrument will be programmed. [This BTW is also a good way to explore making your own sounds with on-board samples.] Same for general instrument sounds: EP, Guitar, Strings, Brass, etc. -- all of your third party samples will sound mo' better dropped into the appropriate template program.


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The issue is that i want to just hear a sample of the wav before actually loading it in as as a sample. E.g my Kurzweil k2000 allows you to hear a couple of seconds of the sample from the main file list before actually loading it. I am having a hard time even loading wavs. Even though i have the sample option and ram, the wavs done load they just say something about wildcards then when you click ok it says file unavailable. I know i can use awave to convert them to korg format but they dont convert to stereo so you can only use mono loops which sucks.