Music in a Green Thermo Flask.

Sample to Syntheziser (Week 8 Blog 2)

At SAE we were asked to create music out of samples. Phil and l decided to use a aluminium drinking bottle and recorded it with a Zoom H6 handy recorder. So we went to the midi studio to get some clean sample sounds.

Message In a green thermo.

We tapped, slid and scrapped our fingers on to flask to create different textures of sound. We only needed a small amount of samples, but we didn't know what samples would turn out good. We ended up have more than enough recorded sounds.

Zoom recorder and musical instrument

After locking up the midi studio and returning the swipe card to tech, we headed back to the classroom to upload the audio files into the computer DAW. The audio files are stored on a SD card which we were able to put straight into the back of the classroom apple computer. I upload the audio files straight onto ProTools. Once all the files are upload and saved I started the process of cut and listen for some good audio sample files to use.

Cutting and trimming audio files for preparation to transfer to syntheziser and make a sampling pack.

Now l have found five samples which l like, and moved the samples from the ProTools window by dragging them onto the desktop screen into a folder and then to my external drive.

New file folder to store audio samples.

I listened to the sounds we recorded and described them the best way l could to reference point in my mind.

I decided to use Logic Pro X to start building up my sample pack.

l'm not that familiar with Logic Pro X let alone creating sample packs on any DAW, but l remembered some of it from a classroom session on Logic Pro X creating samples.

Once you have open Logic Pro X you need to.

• Create a track through software instrument.

A empty track should appear on you

screen and to the left you should

see an area that has the region and

track info.

• To select EXS24 Sample stereo through the track instrument selection button which can be found through clicking the highlighted button in blue and reads E-Piano. Push on the up or down tiny arrows on the buttons right side and a dropdown box will open. Slide onto the instrument you want, which is EXS24 (Sample). Once you are on that instrument section another dropdown box will appear to the right which gives you different speaker combinations, pick the stereo one.

Signal flow to open EXS24 sample Instrument

Face of virtual instrument to create samples through.

Blank keyboard to shift audio wavs on to so you can start creating sample library.

• The EXS24 virtual instrument should appear (image above to the left) then go to the right of the instrument window and look for edit, which is in tiny writing so take your time looking for it. it's next to the options button. Click the edit button and the blank keyboard should appear. You can now slide your samples from the folder into the blank keyboard.

The creation of my green thermo flask drum kit.

So l created drums, bass, percussion and a melody out of the flask. l also used some normal keyboard sounds as well. This is a new world for me to explore and create my own sample library.

The link below give a quick intro to a couple of different ways you can setup the EXS24 blank keyboard.

https://youtu.be/l8UfpQaGfh4

Reference

EXS24 Sampler Logic Pro X - Create your own custom sampler instruments. (2016, November 28). Retrieved July 21, 2019, from https://youtu.be/l8UfpQaGfh4

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