How Many Of You Actually (Question On Sampling)

Mono da stock memory on da 1000 is all i need

RonDu wrote:Similar to no7exit. I sample in mono but if I'm sampling something with effects like strings I'll do it in stereo. Otherwise I'll just use the internal effects which automatically will put my sounds in stereo when applied.

which effect does this?

I sample everything in stereo, but i convert most of my drumhits to mono

i did some experimenting and now i plan to sample most my ish in mono. i didn't know that when it plays back a mono rec it does so on both channels.

ONE wrote:I sample in both mono and stereo. I tend to go mono if there is something in either channel that I want to isolate. I do this quite a bit cause I usually look for a lot of little sounds and riffs to sample rather than a whole 2 or 4 bar loop.

I sample in stereo if the main sounds I'm concerned with are panned centre or near centre. I find that sampling in stereo, in this case, I keep a lot of the dynamics from the original recording.

I think sampling drums mono is a good idea, because it makes the drums sound harder, flatter, and more full, which is a good thing.

EXACTLY!

By the way, in my 1K, when I select the channel I want to use in TRIM MODE, both of the channels sound the same. I know both of the channels are different because I heard them seperately in RECORD MODE (first MONO L, then MONO R).

Please help,
Hope this is not confusing...

mono 95 percent of the time. stereo when the sample has interesting stereo quality....like diff shit in left n right. there are a couple beats where im glad i have stereo sampling abilitiies but for most **** it. but whutever its the beauty of havin gear for both.

Stereo. Got the mem expansion on the 1k so don't need to be too econonical. Never tried sampling drums in mono though, have to give it a try.

just sliced up a beat where i used stereo for a few parts..i did this because the instruments were panned real cool, and you could isolate certain things.

When it comes to drums, always mono for me. Stereo drums don't hit...

If you are not sampling and are tracking drums, then the room mics and overheads should be stereo...the rest mono.

A cool thing to try for samplers...make your drums, then submix the drums into one channel in your sequencer. In that channel, put more compression and then add an impulse reverb. Use something like S.I.R. for your impulse plug.then find impulses of a nice drum room....then mix it in just right and your drums will blend together even better and sound like one kit.

Good lookin everybody looks like Im getting an EPS real soon.



I really appreciate the help

So when you sample in mono it takes the left and right channels and permanently merges them into one signal, right? Now when you play that sample from your MPC into a stereo recording device (say, a soundcard, for example), the MPC will send the same mono signal on both the left and right channels into said soundcard, correct? So when I track my drums out to CEP, and examine the waveform, I'll have (basically) identical left and right waveforms? Now here's the part that I found to be the most helpful of all the mono-ness:

Doesn't this mean that if you do all your sampling in mono (unless, like peeps said, it has panned effects or whatever) then it would be MUCH MUCH easier to find zero crossings while slicing/chopping because the 2 channels would automatically line up?

M.ic P.ro C.rusher wrote:
Doesn't this mean that if you do all your sampling in mono (unless, like peeps said, it has panned effects or whatever) then it would be MUCH MUCH easier to find zero crossings while slicing/chopping because the 2 channels would automatically line up?

thats just what i was thinkin

mono, but if i rememeber somtimes ill sample some things in stereo

..on what's already been said. But for my staple drums - kick,snare,hats, etc. mono. If I need a stereo quality from my drum kit, I use a stereo effect. Only problem with sampling mono is if you have a beautiful sample with great stereo imaging you are going to lose that quality in mono. If you going for an old skool grimy sound or whatever mono is cool, but done right you can make a stereo sample sound like you are playing the original source beefed up with whatever you add.

wat diference does it make? dont u guys pan?

DaSoof wrote:wat diference does it make? dont u guys pan?

yeah but some samples have big difference between l and r. Pick up an Axelrod album, he does different shit in each speaker.

i sample in mono unless what im sampling has ill stereo qualities.

i pan shit out in my beats too