On Wed, Mar 24, 2004 at 10:24:42AM -0500, Chris Metzler wrote: [...] > piano line and generate it through a sampler. But that brings my > first question -- if you don't own/play the instruments in question, > where do you get the samples? I've done a lot of web searching, > and found tons of drum loops and bass lines that are two measures > long and so forth, but don't find much in the way of e.g. individual > notes on basses. > > And I wonder about how people use the extended samples I find. > It seems kinda constraining, to be stuck with a melody/harmony > line given to you by whatever someone sampled. Of course, there > are tons and tons of samples available; but then, in order to > express the music you're hearing in your head, you're gonna be > spending hours and hours trying to find samples that work. > The Answer would be sample CDs. They may contain everything from a Grand Piano, with each individual key sampled at different velocities, with/without pedal etc. to readymade drumloops/vocal hooks that you can hack together a crappy dance music track within mere seconds :) They come in specific formats for different hard/software samplers (Akai, Gigasampler etc.) as well as generic formats like a CD-ROM with .wav files or simply an audio CD. See this vendor site for examples: http://bestservice.de/index.asp?lng=3 cheers, Christian
