emusonacid!

i am pretty new to using the emu, i trying to get some nice teched out sounds (sinthetix, kiko, etc), right now i am doing stuff like sampling detuned saws/waveforms, looping them and sticking them in to the presets.

i know their are no rules
but do you think it would be better to create the sounds before hand, or keep sampling waveforms and resampling with chrous/reverb whatever.

thanks for any advice

You're on the right track. A lot of people sample waveforms then modulate/contort/layer/detune them in the EMUs. Layering sounds is definitely key. Try shit like layering high-passed saws over basses. Then resample the layered sound and direct the mod wheel to a low pass filter. That way you can modulate between the bass and the bass with the layered saw. Also, read the section on this site that's dedicated to the "cords" matrix. But anyway, you're right. Resampling is important, especially when you don't want to draw your modulations in your sequencer. I've got a Roland JP-8080 and sample sounds from that all the time. It's nice to sample a sound that has a full range of frequencies rather that just a saw wave. You can always jack crunchy basslines from vinyl and mix them with other jacked basslines. If you mess with them enough knowbody will know the difference and you might wind up with something completely new. You probably already know this but it helps to know what frequencies corespond to which notes. Like an A above middle C is 440hz. Middle C is 261.626. Find the rest of them and tune your saws or whatever so they make chords.

A is best to work with if you can, because it divides or multiplies by 2. As Wrecker said, A4 is 440hz. A3 is 220, A2 110, A5 880, etc... So it's really easy w/ WaveLab or whatever to get exactly the waveform you need, and generally the E-Mu does a good job of interpolating a single octave up or down (in my experience, I think it does a better job going down than up, by the way).

so say i take the es2 in logic, sample each note in a octave, loop, map them up the keyboard, then edit them as a group, or should i edit them seperately

should i be playing my samples as cords(multiple notes) before i put them into the sampler and map them er somthing?

i also hear its nice to take the same sound and process differently to create similar but different part of the bassline and map it

Check this mate.

http://www.dogsonacid.com/showthread.ph ... =Bass+Tips

Don't mix up "cords" with "chords". "Cords" are just a digital rendition of the
of the patch cords that you see on the back of old analogue units. You should do what you said and sample each individual note then loop them, so you can then play "chords".

sweet, thanks man, now all i have to do is learn how to play chords
any chords that are prodominate in neuro funk?

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