whats up folks, I'm looking for as many tips on building kits in the es as I can find as I'd like to try them all and see what whats the best workflow for me sooooo, how do you create your kits, your always used kits versus your not always used kits, do you only load up what you use for a paticular song or do you always work from the same set of samples and how do you organize your samples.
lookin forward to hearing how you do what you do
peace
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tim from texas
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i use the esx sample loader to set up all my stuff...
for longer or "chopped" samples i prefer using audacity (http://audacity.sourceforge.net/) to chop and do minor adjustments before loading them to the korg that way i spend less time fumbling and more time rocking.. i HAVE spent a substantial amount of time setting up my stuff in the editing program BEFORE even loading my stuff twice in the five or so times ive dabbled with the editor and i learn more and more each time i use it..
setting up the kits is easy using the software.. i load say all the bass drums 1-25, then all my highhats 26-36 then all my snares 36-50 and so on... i like grouping my sounds together like that... have all your melodies (longish samples all in a row) all your slices (you can slice (chop) using the software) have all that stuff grouped together so you have an idea of where they are.. the last time i did a big batch load i actually made screenshots (no copy function in the program) and pasted chunks of my list into photoshop and printed out my sample bank so i could reference where stuff was on paper and not have to scroll so much..
anyway once you have all your samples set up in the program you can go to the button in the top rightish middle ish area that says pattern editor.. when you click that it kinda opens a new screen.. what opens can look kind of confusing but just take a good look at whats there.. down towards the bottom what youre looking at is the patterns that you create the tracks on... you can tell the esx that when you turn her on and go to the first track (pattern A.01) your drum kit/sample banks pops up as the one youre gonna create using the drop down boxes attatched to parts1-parts7b... when you really start wrapping your head around it and want to create songs lasting more than just 8 bar patterns you can set up several patterns (a.01, a.02,a.03) all with the same drum kits or different kits that go together to make a longer song via the song function on the esx... when youre done building your kits or pad banks in this screen you can close it and it goes back to the orig sample editor screen.. you then go file save as (i save to a folder on my desktop full of esx/404/and pornbackups) then drag that saved file to your memory card and load it to your esx... boom... done... it takes a while to set it up and it took me like three trys before i got a run that made sense and worked well (spending a few hours each time getting stuff going) and this last one worked well... ive made 3 pretty cool beats with all none stock samples, well cool to me anyway..
i use an sp 404 and have those kits saved to my computer also.. if i have a drum kit saved that i like those are usually saved names like
A1
a2
a3
etc
and i load those too..
i like working small so i made like 3 or 4 patters with specific kits in the sample software and then made like 5 or 6 more patterns with a bass a snare a hat and other samples so that when i open those tracks i dont have to totally start from scratch i can scroll and find a bass drum i like a snare a hat and so on...
did i just ramble for like 30 minutes and leave you more confused?
for longer or "chopped" samples i prefer using audacity (http://audacity.sourceforge.net/) to chop and do minor adjustments before loading them to the korg that way i spend less time fumbling and more time rocking.. i HAVE spent a substantial amount of time setting up my stuff in the editing program BEFORE even loading my stuff twice in the five or so times ive dabbled with the editor and i learn more and more each time i use it..
setting up the kits is easy using the software.. i load say all the bass drums 1-25, then all my highhats 26-36 then all my snares 36-50 and so on... i like grouping my sounds together like that... have all your melodies (longish samples all in a row) all your slices (you can slice (chop) using the software) have all that stuff grouped together so you have an idea of where they are.. the last time i did a big batch load i actually made screenshots (no copy function in the program) and pasted chunks of my list into photoshop and printed out my sample bank so i could reference where stuff was on paper and not have to scroll so much..
anyway once you have all your samples set up in the program you can go to the button in the top rightish middle ish area that says pattern editor.. when you click that it kinda opens a new screen.. what opens can look kind of confusing but just take a good look at whats there.. down towards the bottom what youre looking at is the patterns that you create the tracks on... you can tell the esx that when you turn her on and go to the first track (pattern A.01) your drum kit/sample banks pops up as the one youre gonna create using the drop down boxes attatched to parts1-parts7b... when you really start wrapping your head around it and want to create songs lasting more than just 8 bar patterns you can set up several patterns (a.01, a.02,a.03) all with the same drum kits or different kits that go together to make a longer song via the song function on the esx... when youre done building your kits or pad banks in this screen you can close it and it goes back to the orig sample editor screen.. you then go file save as (i save to a folder on my desktop full of esx/404/and pornbackups) then drag that saved file to your memory card and load it to your esx... boom... done... it takes a while to set it up and it took me like three trys before i got a run that made sense and worked well (spending a few hours each time getting stuff going) and this last one worked well... ive made 3 pretty cool beats with all none stock samples, well cool to me anyway..
i use an sp 404 and have those kits saved to my computer also.. if i have a drum kit saved that i like those are usually saved names like
A1
a2
a3
etc
and i load those too..
i like working small so i made like 3 or 4 patters with specific kits in the sample software and then made like 5 or 6 more patterns with a bass a snare a hat and other samples so that when i open those tracks i dont have to totally start from scratch i can scroll and find a bass drum i like a snare a hat and so on...
did i just ramble for like 30 minutes and leave you more confused?
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tim from texas
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tim from texas
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Usually i dont use any of the sounds that i sample, more than twice.
But ive built quite a library out of one shots salvaged from records.
And over the years ive managed to amass some pretty interesting stuff, that i find myself using quite a bit over and over again. Mainly drum samples and percussion samples though. And with the built in keyboard on the ESX, you could damn near make a synth patch out of any sound.
Nothing really goes to waste.
But ive built quite a library out of one shots salvaged from records.
And over the years ive managed to amass some pretty interesting stuff, that i find myself using quite a bit over and over again. Mainly drum samples and percussion samples though. And with the built in keyboard on the ESX, you could damn near make a synth patch out of any sound.
Nothing really goes to waste.