sampling advice from hollow sun

http://www.soundonsound.com/search?Keyw ... f+sampling

very cool and informative (and long) articles written by the man behind hollow sun (for those not familiar hs makes some really great sample packs of vintage synths among other things). lots of solid advice there. and apparently he had no small part in the development of akai's sampler range up to and including the 4k era.

Nice one Jim.

I'll be ploughing through these in my spare time.

Wow very cool resource. thanks for sharing. Hollow Sun is the man.

In the first of a short series on rediscovering this skill,

but there aint nothing short about it.

Not so much a lost art, more something a lot of people never discovered.
A personal conversation with most people tells you how much they do or don't know.

Usually it's the don't know column.

People have become more about asking questions than experimenting to find their way.
Kinda why we see so many comments from people about things they have never used let alone owned.

I just hope that people read through that stuff and get inspired to power up the gear and experiment.

very cool resource. i had a gig doing sound design for soundfonts once and its amazing how much you learn once your doing nothing but sampling and building programs all day, every day.

thanks and props

I think a lot of people now days just want to load up a pre-prepared looped and spanned sample/program, inside whatever the latest mass-rompler is.

Recording/chopping/assigning/etc. samples yourself is too much effort for the attention span of most computer music producers who have not grown up having to make the effort yourself.

SimonInAustralia wrote:I think a lot of people now days just want to load up a pre-prepared looped and spanned sample/program, inside whatever the latest mass-rompler is.

Recording/chopping/assigning/etc. samples yourself is too much effort for the attention span of most computer music producers who have not grown up having to make the effort yourself.

so right. I admit i tend to fall in that categroy sometimes with work / school and other stuff. sometimes I just want to load some stuff up and get to work. This is probably pretty common place now a days. its evident by the boom in sample kits. Everyone from the unknown bedroom producer cat to the well known producers are throwing their hat in the sound design ring. back in the day producers would never have done that. but now there's been a shift to pre packaged samples as you said.

Still I do get my sample on at least half the time. and those are the times when things really get to flowing... you know ... the old creative juices. feels good to create something that no one else has.