Creating your own melodic parts using sampled instruments

[Polytrix]

I'm really fascinated by this idea in general and would like to hear what you lot do too.

 

As much as I like DAW presets, it seems far too easy somehow. I'm so much more proud of it when it's my own sound.

 

Record your own sound from whatever - I used a weird chime tone from a kid's wind up toy today recorded with my Zoom recorder.

 

Fuck with it, pitch, filter, distortion, effects etc - resample and slam into a sampler for playback (I use Ableton's simpler as it just maps the sound to my midi keyboard straight off) - then play with sample start/length and you can isolate discreet sounds.

 

I could make a whole series of songs just using that technique alone and then adding stuff around it. Do you lot do it like this too?

 

Happy Sundays to you all.

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[PhylumZunami]

i like to resample air because it goes fizz

[Polytrix]

I do think it's a good topic though as I've discussed with other users what they use to make unique melodic sounds and the ideas are endless :)

[modey]

I started out with trackers and didn't have any decent sample sets (unless I ripped them from other tunes) so I did this right from the beginning. I think the first thing I ever sampled was just myself whistling and it ended up sounding a lot like the intro lead sound from this song:

 

 

 

Weird comparison, but I remember hearing that song on the radio after I'd played around with my whistling sample and was convinced that they'd done something similar to get that sound.

[Polytrix]

Cool thanks, I'll try that too.

 

I was actually thinking I'd really like an MPC...but too expensive right now. I think sampling is maybe the most fun thing right now for me.

[th555]

I would really like a sample player that quickly/automatically maps multiple samples to the keyboard. I often have a bunch of samples called C1.wav, C2.wav, C3.wav etc and it's pretty tiresome to arrange them manually.

[Squee]

I would really like a sample player that quickly/automatically maps multiple samples to the keyboard. I often have a bunch of samples called C1.wav, C2.wav, C3.wav etc and it's pretty tiresome to arrange them manually.

 

Kontakt

[Tricone RC]

I do it fuckloads with my accordion and did it with a bass guitar once, I tend to sample a whole riff/tune/bassline etc, and tweak it to better fit the bpm in audacity, and put fx over it in reaper. You don't need fancy software