if you take 1 note to do this, the resulting sound gets worse and worse the further you stretch it. the mpc1000/2500 jj os's can do this in many ways. the 4000/mv can do this, too, that is stretching a single note, but it will not sound as good as a multisampled INST pgm, no matter what platform the INST pgm is coming from.
stretching a single sound it is not ideal, at all. this isn't a problem with sine wavs, square wavs, etc. there's less going on in the harmonics, there aren't formants, there isn't a transient. however, when there are all those things, pitching them on and on and on yields a mickey moused effect. read the lost art of sampling from SOS magazine, it's online for free.
simple example: stretchign a single C3 piano note up and down the scales will NOT sound as good as sampling every minor third and stretching the multisamples across the missing keys. try it! you'll hear why instantly.
The reason I'm asking is because if I need (example) a bagpipe kit and fine a few notes on a record, I doubt I'll find every note to make a perfect kit.
i'm afraid it's unlikely that anyone is going to be making INST pgms from what they find on record. you have to be very very lucky with the original sound (a plethora of long, drawn out notes). this is not the intention of INST pgms. INST pgms are intended to be made from multisamples from keyboards, synth, or real instruments - the odds that you'll find what you need to make a convincing INST pgm from record are very, very slim.
in your case, with the bagpipe, i suggest either using a VST or just chopping the samples you do find into a standard drum pgm. (all my chopped samples go straight to DRUM pgm, NOT inst pgm)
This may be good for some people, but it's way too much of a long process for me. 1000 ideas on what I could do to the beat would go by before I finish creating a single kit.
2 responses to that:
1st, building an inst pgm with 28 multisamples takes me all of 4 minutes, not including the 1 minute it requires to sample the 28 notes. from chopping it into 28 pieces, adjusting start/endpoints, dropping them into my preset 28 note INST pgm, specifying the original notes, and renaming the pgm takes 4 minutes (i timed myself). this is not a long time, and not at ALL unreasonable to expect from any user after some practice.
HOWEVER. even if it did take 10 minutes to make 1 multisample pgm, it does not matter. no disrespect, but you're going to have to change your mentality, there. no matter what the task is, be it chopping a sample, building a program, or sequencing drums, if you're gonna do it right it WILL take time. timestretching in previous model MPCs was a lengthy process. SAVING can be a lengthy process. there are thousands of "wasted seconds" that go by while making music - i'd go as far to say that more time i spent NOT making music than actually making music.
finally, my last addition is this: once you've created an inst pgm, you've got it for good. it's like a patch in reason - you can use it again and again to different effect in different songs if you like. for this reason, i've been a huge advocate of people making their inst pgms public.
check back here in about 4 hours, ok? i'll try and upload the kurzweil k2000 multisampled kits i've made. it's 29 INST pgms, mostly pianos and synths. this thing has a couple hundred patches, and i'm only on 29. but one by one i'm jacking them all.
but again, dont be timid about dumping time into building your pgms, drum or inst. you say "1000 ideas on what i could do to the beat would go by before i finish creating a single kit."
in all good humor (and for ME of all people to say this is shocking), perhaps you should cut back on the marjuana if you can't remember all the brilliant ideas you are having!
in all seriousness though from the perspective of someone who does make INST pgms--frequently--this doesn't seem like a legitimate issue. maybe it's because i don't typically stop in the middle of working on a beat to create an INST pgm. instead, often i'll just turn on the MPC in order to make INST pgms that i save and will browse/use in beats later. that way i don't have to pause. but there is something to be said about "clearing the ears."
peace
