Resampling - what I learned in 2013

If I picked up anything in 2013, resampling was probably the biggest breakthrough I had.

If you get to that point in your track when you’re stuck and aren’t sure where to take it…. it’s time to start resampling.

If you have a nice bass line, resample it. Put it on a new program and chop it up or 16 level+sample start. Copy your sequence so you can keep the original. Put that new bass program in the new sequence and see what you can do with the bass now.

If your bass line is ok but needs something else, set up your bass in a new program. Start throwing effects at it till you get something that sounds cool. Resample it, chop it up and see how it goes then.

If you’ve made a good drum sequence, resample it and chop it up. Try adding different effects/filters/adsr to the drums and resample to have variation of the original.

Resample an instrument. EQ that instrument till it sounds good. Resample it. EQ it again to really make it shine! Resample it. Same goes with compression.

Layer one sound over another copy of itself to make it bigger. Resample it.

Three copies of a drum loop playing at the same time, 1 copy has all the highs and mids cut out, 1 copy has the lows and highs cut out and one copy has the lows and mids cut out. Mix these around till you can make the drums really hit. Resample this.

Mess with the Q-links live while resampling.

Always keep the original samples, programs and sequences cause sometimes this method will lead you to something crappy. Plus now you will have the original and variations.

Admittedly, I hardly ever resample. I should though! It's been good to me the few times I've done it. Last time I played around with it, I as resampling whole sequences and then chopping that up to get some stutter type effects going on.

...that was about the extent of that. I really should dig into this a lot more.

Thanks for making me remember!

I use to resample heavily. Now its all copy and paste for me since that doesn't eat up the RAM.

Yes resampling can be fun and create something new. I used it for complete sequences too (a complete mix of drums, bass other samples) to check what the beat sound like when I play it a few semitones up or down. This can change the vibe of the whole beat and you probably find a tempo/vibe that sounds much better than the original sequence you had.

peace

nice post, I never re-sample but it's something that's been on my mind for some time now

konc3pt wrote:nice post, I never re-sample but it's something that's been on my mind for some time now

Similar here.. I be too lazy

One thing that's starting to work for me... 1 program, 4 samples.... one sample on the first pad of each bank. Fill up the rest of the pads on that bank with resamples of the first sound. Take what you like, f- the rest.

I'm trying to do this before I start writing a track so I'll have a crap ton of awesome sounds to work with.

thats a great idea riggs, it would be awesome if you posted a video of what kind of sounds you would resample on to each of the pads.

im wanting to resample more an more, arkyve posted a really killer video that has resampling in it that just blew my mind.

check it out.

i still havent dived too deep into it, but have been meaning to.

no question is a dumb question right? right, so....

What exactly is "resampling"?

Sampling, then playing the sample again while sampling it? or am I missing something?

...that's pretty much it....

but it's not about a copy of a sample.....
it's about recording results to take them to a next level....
to give you the chance to take a new look at it....

in fact, resampling is the best way not to get lost in a track.....if you got the basics of a track together....stop looking or thinking of the next fancy sound you could drop there....start to resample an take it from there....end of the day your track will be much more a track of it's own.....

reeloy wrote:...that's pretty much it....

but it's not about a copy of a sample.....
it's about recording results to take them to a next level....
to give you the chance to take a new look at it....

in fact, resampling is the best way not to get lost in a track.....if you got the basics of a track together....stop looking or thinking of the next fancy sound you could drop there....start to resample an take it from there....end of the day your track will be much more a track of it's own.....

Hate to sound dumb about this, but can you explain it a little more in depth so I can understand it?

i resample on my mpc500 a bit, when i first realized about the resample i couldn't believe i didn't think about doing it before...

whenever i tried working with the resample feature, the resampled sample is always lower levels than the original. tried raising the master output before resampling but that just cracks the sound too.

tunnelno5 wrote:whenever i tried working with the resample feature, the resampled sample is always lower levels than the original. tried raising the master output before resampling but that just cracks the sound too.

U gotta normalize the new sample.. always normalize..