Hi everyone, this is my first post here and i hope you can help me.
I have recently started in the world of electronic music and samples and I'm trying to find some specifics on 'how to use samples'
Yet wherever I search (even here) all I EVER turn up are 'sampling' tutorials.
What I mean specifically about how to use samples is quite complex in my head, so please forgive me if I waffle a bit.
First lets deal with actually using samples to make music. I get 100% that using samples kick drums, sampled snares etc is the way to make solid sounding stuff.. Thats not my issue. Its the plethora of 'loops' and 'sounds' that you find literally everywhere that has me foxed.
My problems:
1. No two samples are in the same key, they dont loop at the same speeds and making them 'fit' seems more trouble than it's worth. Tuning samples at least from my limited knowledge (I'm using Ableton and was under the impression it did most of this for you! - not in my experience!) is a minefield of guess work.
2. The loop sample that you have is only a couple of bars long... Lets say for arguments sake its a bass sample and you want to create a drum and bass track. You write maybe 4 bars with the 'loop' sample.. And then what? How do you continue the song when all you have is one 'loop'??
3. The idea of samples and loops sounds great to me... But the putting together of full tracks with limited parts (and knowledge i conceed) seems a million miles away.
Any help in this would be really appreciated.
Thanks in advance,
Art
I have recently started in the world of electronic music and samples and I'm trying to find some specifics on 'how to use samples'
Yet wherever I search (even here) all I EVER turn up are 'sampling' tutorials.
What I mean specifically about how to use samples is quite complex in my head, so please forgive me if I waffle a bit.
First lets deal with actually using samples to make music. I get 100% that using samples kick drums, sampled snares etc is the way to make solid sounding stuff.. Thats not my issue. Its the plethora of 'loops' and 'sounds' that you find literally everywhere that has me foxed.
My problems:
1. No two samples are in the same key, they dont loop at the same speeds and making them 'fit' seems more trouble than it's worth. Tuning samples at least from my limited knowledge (I'm using Ableton and was under the impression it did most of this for you! - not in my experience!) is a minefield of guess work.
2. The loop sample that you have is only a couple of bars long... Lets say for arguments sake its a bass sample and you want to create a drum and bass track. You write maybe 4 bars with the 'loop' sample.. And then what? How do you continue the song when all you have is one 'loop'??
3. The idea of samples and loops sounds great to me... But the putting together of full tracks with limited parts (and knowledge i conceed) seems a million miles away.
Any help in this would be really appreciated.
Thanks in advance,
Art
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