CutFade
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Hey all, I been lurking this website for quite some time and I finally decided to sign up. Since I signed up I figured I might as well ask a question that’s been on my mind. For obvious reasons ill list my equipment. I am using Ableton 8, Reason 4, Adobe Audition, Recycle and an M-Audio keyboard with 8 midi-pads.
So my question goes like this; say you’re sampling a song alright. You find the section you want to cut up and slice. Do just take the section you selected and then send them to your midi with say like ½ bar slices so you have like 36 notes. Then you just mess around with them until you find a part you want to work with and go from there? Or do you take the section you want to cut and go in deeper and start making precise slices in the areas you want the sound to come from? I hope this is making sense, if it isn’t just holla and I can try and rephrase my question.
I’ve noticed my slices just don’t seem to come off smooth and when I apply them to my board it’s hard to find anything to flow well. I’ve had a few come out really well, but it was just luck and persistence in playing around with it.
Also this philosophy I have about how this works is like how graphic designers work. I used to make signatures in Adobe Photoshop and you take a piece of design you want to work with. Then you would take some graphics such as c4ds and cut them up and manipulate them all into one bad ass image. The only part that is different here is that you are kind of doing the rendering of the audio but it is still similar to how you would render an image.
If that’s true, I remember when I started graphic designing. Everyone had these bad ass images and what I would work with where like lame brushes and cheesy pixilated images. Then after months of practicing I semi-caught up with the big boys and made some bad ass images. With like my sampling and slicing its like I hear something I want to make but it just doesn’t seem to come out. So I go in a different direction then what I wanted to originally. I hear these flips people are doing and its like I can’t figure out how they are making these. I have watched many videos and read prolly like 20+ pages easily on how to do this, but it seems it only comes with experience.
And saying that I caught up with the big boys in graphic design in no way makes me think that I can do the same in this music world. So I am just looking for honest advice and want to give this flipping a honest try.
Sorry for the long post, but I didn’t want to make any more then a single topic.
Any reply will be appreciated and big ups on all the producers around here! I've been blown away at some of these talented artists!
So my question goes like this; say you’re sampling a song alright. You find the section you want to cut up and slice. Do just take the section you selected and then send them to your midi with say like ½ bar slices so you have like 36 notes. Then you just mess around with them until you find a part you want to work with and go from there? Or do you take the section you want to cut and go in deeper and start making precise slices in the areas you want the sound to come from? I hope this is making sense, if it isn’t just holla and I can try and rephrase my question.
I’ve noticed my slices just don’t seem to come off smooth and when I apply them to my board it’s hard to find anything to flow well. I’ve had a few come out really well, but it was just luck and persistence in playing around with it.
Also this philosophy I have about how this works is like how graphic designers work. I used to make signatures in Adobe Photoshop and you take a piece of design you want to work with. Then you would take some graphics such as c4ds and cut them up and manipulate them all into one bad ass image. The only part that is different here is that you are kind of doing the rendering of the audio but it is still similar to how you would render an image.
If that’s true, I remember when I started graphic designing. Everyone had these bad ass images and what I would work with where like lame brushes and cheesy pixilated images. Then after months of practicing I semi-caught up with the big boys and made some bad ass images. With like my sampling and slicing its like I hear something I want to make but it just doesn’t seem to come out. So I go in a different direction then what I wanted to originally. I hear these flips people are doing and its like I can’t figure out how they are making these. I have watched many videos and read prolly like 20+ pages easily on how to do this, but it seems it only comes with experience.
And saying that I caught up with the big boys in graphic design in no way makes me think that I can do the same in this music world. So I am just looking for honest advice and want to give this flipping a honest try.
Sorry for the long post, but I didn’t want to make any more then a single topic.
Any reply will be appreciated and big ups on all the producers around here! I've been blown away at some of these talented artists!
