my favourite new technique

well not so much of a technique as a feature that i have overlooked til recently

the convert to mono feature ... so u can split the sample and then convert the mono tracks back to stereo leaving you with two variations on the same theme.

anyone use this feature.

yeah have done in the past, ood for getting ghost hits and the like....always worth mentioning again....

greg

ghost hits? explain...

? Couldn't you just copy a sound instead of converting it to stereo?

DrumTek wrote:? Couldn't you just copy a sound instead of converting it to stereo?

converting it back to stereo doesn't make any sense at all because once you break up a stereo sound in half it is not a stereo sound anymore.........converting to mono....or sampling in mono is dope though.......

yeah i got that the wrong way round...i often seperate stereo samples into mono to have two similar but diffferent sounding hits.....


greg

...i mean you can convert 2 copies of the mono track you're using to make a 'stereo' track (not really stereo just a beefier version of the mono track).
it doesn't change it that much just makes it beefier, kinda like layering.
peace

if im not mistaken music theory states that it takes 6db to double the loudness of a sound, so in reverse doubling a sample will only be giving a gain of 6db

so your not really making anything "beefier" so much as a mild volume inc



in studios when dealing with live recording we often overlay takes of one phrase to beef it up, as the subtle variations between takes gives a broader dynamic. you can try this with you samples if you adjust start and end point of one of the mono samples before you sum them to stereo.

also the mono>stereo process is something of interest to me, as it doesnt make totally clear what the algorithm is... theres lots of ways to sum two samples to make stereo... in any case, it sounds good on the MPC. thats what counts i suppose