Creating Vocal type Samples

[Roadman]

Hi, first forgive me, I am new to the sampling arena, although fairly experienced on keys and synths.

Creating Vocal Multi samples -
1) I get the basis of sampling whereby you use say a C and a G for a sound and stretch them using the top key function etc, but how do you do this for a vocal sample? (or in fact any other non musical sample like a car horn, or a hammer blow etc) EG, lets say I want to sample a voice saying 'Funk', and I record it as a sample, again lets say in C. Do I need to rerecord it again in G in order to allow me to have an octave range of this sample?? If so, how do you get continuity, i.e. the original recorded samples will differ slightly, by its very nature? If its a one note sound, like a car horn, how do you stretch it to an actave for use?

2) Stereo vs Mono - when you create an MS in stereo you get two sample files, I am assuming one left and one right. Great, but for my purposes which are mainly live playing, is there any value in Stereo, as my keys are mono out anyway? For recording and the like, if you are panning and so forth, I get that. I am thinking unless I have plans to use that sample for recording at a later date, there is no purpose to stereo? or am I missing something obvious??

Any input welcome.

Thanks in advance [/list]

[Davd C. Polich]

If you are recording a spoken word, then there's no need to record it
at different "pitches". You assign the sample to all keys of a program,
and then set the pitch follow so it is "0" and the same pitch plays across
all keys.

If you are recording sung musical phrases, then yes for each key over
a two octave range, you need to record the phrase, or somehow create pitch-shifted copies of the original phrase, one copy for each key across
a two octave range.

I don't know how to do this on the Kronos. I do this kind of thing using
Melodyne. You can import an audio clip into Melodyne and create pitch-shifted copies of it, saving each copy out as a new file. Then I'd import all the "copies" into the Kronos to create a new waveform. That is, if I wanted to get them into the Kronos at all.

Frankly, for vocal backing tracks, I play them back live on my laptop using Digital Performer.

[Roadman]

Thanks for response,
I'm not sure that is accurate exactly, I want to create a spoken vocal sample, but have it change pitch across say an octave in the way any other sound would. I'm sure you can set a range and base/ original key in multi sample mode, I'm note sure how to do it. Surely the sampler will adjust the pitch of the original sample across a key range in semitones steps?