how do you usually cross fade your chopped up samples?

Do any of you have a specific method that you use to cross fade your samples inside or outside of the 4000 so that they don't sound so choppy when replayed or resequenced? I like to use the mute group feature when using different slices but they don't always blend in well together when changing the order of the original sample. anybody have some advice on where I should start at to achieve a better blend of my samples. thanks for any help in the right direction.

dez perado wrote:Do any of you have a specific method that you use to cross fade your samples inside or outside of the 4000 so that they don't sound so choppy when replayed or resequenced? I like to use the mute group feature when using different slices but they don't always blend in well together when changing the order of the original sample. anybody have some advice on where I should start at to achieve a better blend of my samples. thanks for any help in the right direction.

Before not some much now as I work more with Logic soft instruments more, I would do several things like fade out the ends of the samples using the sample editor of the 4k, use Bias Peak sample editor batch file processsing via Aksys, or just chop down to half notes for each quarter hit setting to mute group like you are doing now this way that overlap.

My two cents.

good looking out for the reply haze. the only audio editor that I have is audacity and I only use that to convert mp3's to wav. files. Do you know of any good tutorials or books that go into depth of cross fading samples (I already tried to google some up) that I should check out.

amp release..

a little reverb

a little attack

layering a 2nd chopped reverb sample under the original

copy your original chopped samples
(just re-slice it, prehaps with a little more release adjustment ),
create program (auto create in slice if its a direct copy of the original)
after its choped up
set the start near the end on each chop,

set the new program to note off (so it will be triggerd when you release the note)
now put it on the same track you original program is on ..
and adjust attack release as needed

...etc etc ..

ADSR is the easiest way i think.Setting attack to 1,loose it's choppy effect and if you add some more you get a fade effect.

Dr. Lecter wrote:ADSR is the easiest way i think.Setting attack to 1,loose it's choppy effect and if you add some more you get a fade effect.

I know what adsr stands for although I'm not to sure how to apply the right settings for each individual sample slice. I,m a little confused about the sustain and release part more than the attack and decay. Are there any books or tutorials that can help me to get it down packed.

Experimenting is the best thing to do.They're all depend on the length of the sample so that can't have a standard setting.

sustain happens while the sample is triggered.
release happens after the sample has triggered.

thank u all for your time. I'll just play around with those settings and see where I get my best results.

You're welcome!