Sustain Loops w/ Zero-X Seamless Looper

Just figured I should name-drop this beauty of a program. (well, the interface isn't exactly cutting edge but the functionality it top-drawer!)

Visit www.beatcreator.com and check out the company's Seamless Looper program.

If you're a PC user who's wanted an auto-loop-finding tool for creating sustain loops, this is IT! Mac users have had Bias Infinity for years, but this program only popped up 2 years ago or so.

I finally deigned to try it out (new project- multisampling all of the decent [me being the judge] presets from my Korg Karma, since it'll be relegated to a corner of my room soon to make way for a much simpler/cheaper/smaller VA synth of some kind) and this thing is a BEAST.

This program has found perfect loops by default in at least half of the samples I've tried it on, and 100% of the time it gave me a perfect or near-perfect loop among the list of "alternative loops" presented with that option.

The prog is 40 bucks and it more than pays for itself in saved time.

It's now my main sample editor. (it's got basic functionality like sample reverse, EQ, normalize, etc) If I need any serious effects or the like, Cubase and a huge array of freeware VSTs have me covered. I can basically say goodbye to Sound Forge!

Integrating ak.Sys, my s5000 and Seamless Looper is definitely one of my smartest moves I've made recently. (other than acing finals and relaxing on the job at work)

As a side note, whenever I finish sampling/programming all the s5000 Korg patches, is there anyone who'd be interested in shelling out 10 bucks for a copy? It'll be like 200-300 Karma (same as Triton, essentially) multisampled programs, retaining all of the playability and sound quality, stereo imaging, velocity splits, etc, only more easily editable via the ak.Sys interface (or the s5000 interface, which is damned easy to learn next to the menu-submenu-subsubmenu layout of Korg functions)

You can reach me at [email protected]

I'll also be multisampling a series of presets and custom patches using the EXB-MOSS option for the Triton/Karma, which is one helluva synth. It's got some of the nicest specs around (much of what you could program on an MS2000 can be programmed using the MOSS board) and the chip itself don't come cheap.

So again, check out that program, and if anyone's interested in these sample kits, lemme know! I may do translations to other samplers as well. Soft samplers, Z series, MPC1k....

And again, you can reach me at [email protected]

Damn I've got a lot of sampling to do.
-tank.

I am interested in sound sets [email protected]

dont the mpc do the same shit?

oh yea.. can u do .snd to .wav conversions?

It'll probably be a couple months before I finish up the multisampling project, and that'll just be the s5000/6000 stage. If someone needs it in another format (particularly MPC) don't look for it all that soon. ChickenSys Translator might be able to help on translating to full-fledged racksampler type software/hardware, but porting to MPC and slimming down the functionality while still maintaining playability will take a lot of work.

Will hit you up soon, Toranaga.

Infinitcash, the MPC can do sustain loops, but it can be a **** to tune them right. (in ANY setup, but really so on an MPC screen) It's not particularly well suited to playing multisamples, but it's possible. The MPC1000, in particular, would be best suited to this task, since it can load 20 different programs at once. So you could load a piano, a few multisampled synths, a drum program or two, some phrase loops.....

Whereas older machines can only load 1 or 4 programs, unsuitable if you plan on doing most/all your work on the MPC. MPC also has extremely simplified envelopes and no LFOs to speak of. At least the MPC1k has multimode filters. I won't really be making much use of LFOs or filters in this project since I'm essentially duplicating the good stuff from a Karma/Triton, but envelopes will definitely come into play. And from my soundset, you can tweak the Triton sounds into new territory using the s5k's (in my opinion better than the Triton's) filters and LFOs. Rack samplers can load as many as 128 programs at once! (not that most users will ever use that)

The MPC 4000, however, is a full-fledged multisampler and acts like a Z4 or Z8 box, the direct descendants of the S5000/6000. (they can even load s5/6k .akp programs, which is what would make my sample kits immediately accessible to a few other samplers)

There are free programs available for translating snd to wav, by the way, just look around. snd2wav is one, I believe.

-tank.

However, basically all modern samplers (including the s5000/6000) read wav files and I don't see how snd relates to the context of this discussion at all.... (funny I didn't catch that before)

-tank.