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Effectively using samples
« on: February 09, 2016, 04:43:47 pm »
When people use samples I hear amazing FX or a completely different sound when they use them. So my question is when people use samples do they just cut and rearrange, reverse the sound or add other plugins I'm not aware of in the process? I'm not very effective in using samples but, I'm practicing on trying to make them more interesting instead of just using an entire samples with no interesting twist what so ever. I usually attempt this by getting remix stems and working with those   

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Re: Effectively using samples
« Reply #1 on: February 10, 2016, 08:20:10 pm »
When people use samples I hear amazing FX or a completely different sound when they use them. So my question is when people use samples do they just cut and rearrange, reverse the sound or add other plugins I'm not aware of in the process? I'm not very effective in using samples but, I'm practicing on trying to make them more interesting instead of just using an entire samples with no interesting twist what so ever. I usually attempt this by getting remix stems and working with those

Rarely will anyone use a sample AS IS.
The only ones I may use are for white noise, that's pretty much it.

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Re: Effectively using samples
« Reply #2 on: February 11, 2016, 12:38:10 am »
The cool thing about audio is that you can manipulate it in ways that would be really hard for a plug in to do efficiently(please correct me if i am wrong). I know there's some glitch plug ins, but eventually it would be best to bounce those suckers to audio so you can break them even more.

It really depends on whats in your tool box, and how you use those tools for the required sample.

Like, you can literally do any thing you want to the audio stem. If it sounds good or not, it doesn't matter.

Most of the time when i start mangling my samples, they end up as sound effects. As by that time i've already been done thinking about the musical context and i start thinking "ok, how can i get silly with this but still be tasteful and creative?".

But you can do as much or as little with the audio stems you create inside of your daw. It's just an understanding of your tool box, tools in the box, and how to use the tools.
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Re: Effectively using samples
« Reply #3 on: February 11, 2016, 02:29:28 am »
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The cool thing about audio is that you can manipulate it in ways that would be really hard for a plug in to do efficiently(please correct me if i am wrong). I know there's some glitch plug ins, but eventually it would be best to bounce those suckers to audio so you can break them even more.

It really depends on whats in your tool box, and how you use those tools for the required sample.

Like, you can literally do any thing you want to the audio stem. If it sounds good or not, it doesn't matter.

Most of the time when i start mangling my samples, they end up as sound effects. As by that time i've already been done thinking about the musical context and i start thinking "ok, how can i get silly with this but still be tasteful and creative?".

But you can do as much or as little with the audio stems you create inside of your daw. It's just an understanding of your tool box, tools in the box, and how to use the tools.

Okay, so I want to get more creative with my audio samples & from what I'm reading, I lack the tools, since my only tools as of now are just splicing and hoping I get something cool, so what I'm trying to do is get my audio splices to have effects like, Andrew Bayer, Skrillex, Flume etc. sorry I don't mean to sound cliche but that's the only way I can describe the sound I'd like to get lol I'd also like to learn to splice better so I can have another sound to carry along the song to to have a solo with you know?

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Re: Effectively using samples
« Reply #4 on: February 11, 2016, 03:31:03 am »
always man, depending on the sample you're going to have to use eq, reverb, ping pong, sidechaining etc

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Re: Effectively using samples
« Reply #5 on: February 11, 2016, 01:03:42 pm »

Okay, so I want to get more creative with my audio samples & from what I'm reading, I lack the tools, since my only tools as of now are just splicing and hoping I get something cool, so what I'm trying to do is get my audio splices to have effects like, Andrew Bayer, Skrillex, Flume etc. sorry I don't mean to sound cliche but that's the only way I can describe the sound I'd like to get lol I'd also like to learn to splice better so I can have another sound to carry along the song to to have a solo with you know?

You have to treat it like any other audio source.
Apply effects, time stretch, pitch bend.

Trust me, if you have any of the daws, you should be able to do things with them. you just have to know how and what to use with in your environment.

I don't know what it is you want, you have to decide that for yourself man. This is just a simple suggestion as to what may be your problem. We can try to help more if you know more about the problem you are having, and can actually articulate it well enough to get the message across.

But like i said, you have literally every thing you could need. And if you find out you might need more of you don't have what you need, go find it.

research, research, research. then apply.
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