MPC5000 reviews, bug reports and fellow user support on the most recent standalone, hardware MPC from Akai
By mpc5000user Fri Jan 15, 2010 9:27 pm
A lot of times i find myself hearing a particular part of a song that would be great to sample. Only problem is there are either heavy or light (ooo's and ahhhh's) vocals over the part I like.

Any ways to eliminate this problem?


thanks
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By Lampdog Fri Jan 15, 2010 9:39 pm
Depending on how the original vocals are laid.

These days, vocals are ALL OVER the mix, can't do it.

Not just on one channel left or right, not just mono, stereo adlibs and all.
By pull-over Sat Jan 16, 2010 7:55 am
the emulator x 3 have a lil tool called xtractor that let you cut things out of a mix ...well with some artefacts but cool sounding artefacts...

and it works 'good' with old records where everything has their place...
By Mistamixx Sun Jan 17, 2010 7:18 pm
mpc5000user wrote:A lot of times i find myself hearing a particular part of a song that would be great to sample. Only problem is there are either heavy or light (ooo's and ahhhh's) vocals over the part I like.

Any ways to eliminate this problem?


thanks

Melodyne Editor can do the job.
By vedantist Mon Jan 18, 2010 7:18 am
I used two lp sweep filters to erase some high pitched whistling over a nice low pad sample. It works quite well if you play with the parameters, they are very sensitive. Then i also used the equalizer afterwards.
By BackstagePimp Tue Jan 19, 2010 7:34 pm
Lampdog wrote:Trying to remove eggs from the already baked cake again huh?




:D


well, one tip... since it is a sample..why don't you sing the phrase that you want to sample..on top of it???

after that use your effects...good luck with singing..

BackstagePimp
By zippertafari Wed Mar 14, 2012 6:31 pm
vedantist wrote:I used two lp sweep filters to erase some high pitched whistling over a nice low pad sample....


If you have money to buy software - I'd say give Melodyne a try (its not cheap though).
Otherwise - learn to use filters. It will go a long way to help.