emusonacid!

im guessing recycle will do the trick, but then you have to place each sample of the break into a preset and map each hit to a single key? or is there a easier way to do it? seems kind of a pain when you can just use intakt or something like that.

anyway, who puts breaks into the emu and how?

well. i do it the hard way. i take my cdj 500 or sl 1200 (through a mixer so it is grounded), hook it up to my emu and record it. then i take the sample, map it to one key. then i start copying individual hits form the sample. this is so i have a back up of the orginal sample. so if i don't like the way the hit sounds. i can go right back and copy again with adjustments. i then map each hit out on the keybaord. then when i am done, i save that as a preset.

example: i sample the amen break. set that entire sample to b1, or whatever. then copy the first kick, and place it on the next key up, and so on.

that is what i do. i am sure other people have different and even better ways to do it.

there you go

I use Recycle and it automatically transmits the slices into a preset. So when I hit transmit, I just press a key on my contoller and everytning is all spread out across the keyboard.

wrecker13 wrote:I use Recycle and it automatically transmits the slices into a preset. So when I hit transmit, I just press a key on my contoller and everytning is all spread out across the keyboard.

I do this too and it works perfectly.

/Dane

So while your pressing transmit, if you hold a note down it will start dropping it right there? If so, that's awesome and I didn't know that.

no, no, no, no ,no...you don't need to touch anything at all while you're transmitting. Just slice up the beat and hit transmit, and it automatically assigns all of the slices to a different note on the keyboard. I didn't mean to confuse anybody.

Sounds too good to be true !!!

wrecker13 wrote:no, no, no, no ,no...you don't need to touch anything at all while you're transmitting. Just slice up the beat and hit transmit, and it automatically assigns all of the slices to a different note on the keyboard. I didn't mean to confuse anybody.

so it automatically makes a preset when you send over more than one sample at a time? i remember you telling me this before.

i was thinking when you send a single sample over it just makes a new sample, then you have to create a new preset and assign it that sample. not the same with breaks(or any sample with multiple slices)? it actually sends the samples and creates a preset?

man i have to do this from now on, thats the shit!!

by the way, how is working with breaks in the emu? and good hints to getting them sounding better? i was just thinking it would be cool to do some filter sweeps over the whole drum track but what gets them sounding crunchy??

thanks for the help btw.

JD wrote::shock: Sounds too good to be true !!!

But true it is

/Dane

I believe you have to make a preset first then send the chopped break while the emu is on the preset manage screen, showing what preset you want to send it in...i love it

What about getting two breaks into the same preset? Is there a way to tell recycle to start the second beat on a higher note? say two octives higher so that it doesnt interfere with the first set of samples? In other words, how do you stack recycled beats into a preset?

Yeah, if you're talkin' about taking two breaks, slicing them up and having them both layed out in a preset/across the keyboard, all you have to do is find out what the sample number is of the last slice from the first break. Let's say it's sample number 24. When you transmit the next break slices a dialog screen should pop up and just set the receiving number to 25. That way there's no overlap.

Right, I've got that part but the MIDI file that recycle creates is always starts on middle C (or whatever it is) and I want be able to change that. The samples are not the problem, its the midi file created to trigger them - thats not adjustible