Am I the only one to not like resampling?

[the dub lemon]

This definitely - just in general and at all times!! I have multiple versions of everything right from the start. Helped me out when summats screwed up many a time!

In cubase CTRL+ALT+S is the most useful key combination you'll ever find

[dj.ik]

Just right click freeze, right click flatten...

OR:

What I do, is get a sound I like, then I create a midi pattern that is a C note at every octave playing for 8 bars each.

I record this to an audio track.

I set warp markers at the beginning of each note

Then I right click and slice to Sampler and it creates a Multi-sample instrument in Sampler.

Total time = maybe 2 min?
Result = Amazing

Is that in Ableton?

That sounds fat

Yes, in Ableton, sorry for not being clearer.

From there you could take it to the next level:

1. Create an Instrument Rack
2. Drag in the new Sampler
3. Option - Drag twice to create 3 of the same sampler.
4. Low pass one, mid pass the next, high pass the last
5. Effect them all differently and go apeshit
6. Drag in any synth to the instrument rack of just a sine wave for the sub.

Voila! Super bass, that you can play easily and have split into the right layers for a fat ass sound.

That's sick! I was using Ableton to trigger and loop live scratches and juggles, I never really looked into that deep...

I used to do something similar with Kontakt's multi when making basslines, but I gave it up cos kontakt is so long.

These days I'll get a sub,mid and hi bass loop all automated in midi, when I'm happy, then I'll resample them (with a few variations), layer them up in audio, and add fx, eq to taste.

I might even add more layers if the sound requires, and I always save the project and synth patches with a 'sensible' name so I can go back to them later.

Resampling for drums I find essential, I can never get my bass drum layers (or snare layers) to sit 'tight' if I don't resample them. Soon as I got the attack, body and tail all nicely enveloped together, I'll bounce em down with some gentle compression.