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Keeping your samples in tune.

Posted: Fri Jul 09, 2010 8:07 pm
by Dew
is there a plugin that can help you with this?

or one that tells you which note your samples playing?

Re: Keeping your samples in tune.

Posted: Fri Jul 09, 2010 8:11 pm
by Sirius
wastethread!!

Re: Keeping your samples in tune.

Posted: Fri Jul 09, 2010 8:15 pm
by symmetricalsounds
gtune

Re: Keeping your samples in tune.

Posted: Fri Jul 09, 2010 8:15 pm
by Dew
Sirius wrote:wastethread!!
not really

Re: Keeping your samples in tune.

Posted: Fri Jul 09, 2010 8:15 pm
by nowaysj
waste response, sirius

http://www.gvst.co.uk/gtune.htm

there you go

Re: Keeping your samples in tune.

Posted: Fri Jul 09, 2010 8:21 pm
by Sirius
i wanted to help... really i did
then i thought...
how hard is it to play a note at the same time as playing the sample
even if its a chord, it would be easy to figure out the root note.
but then do you make a tune around a sample...
or drop the sample into your tune.
it should be the latter.
and in that case it would be necessary to pitch shift it.
it just seems logical... ya know

or am i missing something?

Re: Keeping your samples in tune.

Posted: Fri Jul 09, 2010 8:22 pm
by Dew
nowaysj wrote:waste response, sirius

http://www.gvst.co.uk/gtune.htm

there you go
cheers mate :)

Re: Keeping your samples in tune.

Posted: Fri Jul 09, 2010 8:28 pm
by Dew
Sirius wrote:i wanted to help... really i did
then i thought...
how hard is it to play a note at the same time as playing the sample
even if its a chord, it would be easy to figure out the root note.
but then do you make a tune around a sample...
or drop the sample into your tune.
it should be the latter.
and in that case it would be necessary to pitch shift it.
it just seems logical... ya know

or am i missing something?
i started making tunes and learning about production a week ago, bit too advanced for me lol

Re: Keeping your samples in tune.

Posted: Fri Jul 09, 2010 8:46 pm
by The Phantom Banger
Sirius wrote:i wanted to help... really i did
then i thought...
how hard is it to play a note at the same time as playing the sample
even if its a chord, it would be easy to figure out the root note.
but then do you make a tune around a sample...
or drop the sample into your tune.
it should be the latter.
and in that case it would be necessary to pitch shift it.
it just seems logical... ya know

or am i missing something?
You seem like a really angry person...

Re: Keeping your samples in tune.

Posted: Fri Jul 09, 2010 9:17 pm
by FSTZ
it's best to use multi samples that tell you the note like:

"Chord_stab_C2_Maj" = chord stab and the note is C major

Re: Keeping your samples in tune.

Posted: Fri Jul 09, 2010 9:21 pm
by nowaysj
best, but not always possible. Specially if you are grabbing samples from trax.

Re: Keeping your samples in tune.

Posted: Fri Jul 09, 2010 9:22 pm
by FSTZ
yeah I know

but if you can't play by ear and tell the note.. (like the O.P.)

Re: Keeping your samples in tune.

Posted: Fri Jul 09, 2010 9:39 pm
by nowaysj
My ear is garbo. Like if I'm using just three notes out of a scale, yeah, bringing in a new note, it's likely to work with those three note's I'm playing, but maybe it is out of the scale, and I don't know it until I start working in a new line that really defines the scale...

Anyway, I've always done everything by ear, but am trying to be more formal wit it, and have found gtune helpful. Shit, especially with vocals. Anyways to each their own.

Re: Keeping your samples in tune.

Posted: Fri Jul 09, 2010 10:22 pm
by contakt321
I use my ears, but when I have a hard time, I use a spectrum that analyzes which notes are being played.

You can also use a tuner, or match to the note of a piano, etc as well.

Re: Keeping your samples in tune.

Posted: Mon Jul 12, 2010 3:44 am
by ianks
spectrum analyzers to see where the harmonics are hitting, then use a midi to Hertz chart.

Re: Keeping your samples in tune.

Posted: Mon Jul 12, 2010 3:57 am
by SunkLo
The Phantom Banger wrote:
Sirius wrote:i wanted to help... really i did
then i thought...
how hard is it to play a note at the same time as playing the sample
even if its a chord, it would be easy to figure out the root note.
but then do you make a tune around a sample...
or drop the sample into your tune.
it should be the latter.
and in that case it would be necessary to pitch shift it.
it just seems logical... ya know

or am i missing something?
You seem like a really angry person...
:lol:
Chea Sirius you're way too serious all the time :mrgreen:

As for the question at hand, use your ears, if you can't get it use a spectrum analyser like others have said

Re: Keeping your samples in tune.

Posted: Mon Jul 12, 2010 5:56 am
by Sirius
yeah I'm full on serious as!! :twisted:
hahahaha... In what ways was that message even remotely angry?
Its just what I was thinking at the time ay..grrrrrrrrrr!!chea

Re: Keeping your samples in tune.

Posted: Mon Jul 12, 2010 7:37 am
by SunkLo
"I will slaughter your entire family and piss on their graves only after torturing them to the furthest extents of excruciation. I'll curse your name every day until I die, and will never cease to bring misfortune to you and your loved ones. Even after death I will continue to haunt you every minute of every day so that you may never experience a moment of relief or happiness .... CHEA!!!"


Still comes off as being cheerful. 'Chea' is the antagonist to everything negative! :lol:

Cheaaa!

Re: Keeping your samples in tune.

Posted: Mon Jul 12, 2010 10:08 am
by *grand*
SunkLo wrote:"I will slaughter your entire family and piss on their graves only after torturing them to the furthest extents of excruciation. I'll curse your name every day until I die, and will never cease to bring misfortune to you and your loved ones. Even after death I will continue to haunt you every minute of every day so that you may never experience a moment of relief or happiness .... CHEA!!!"


Still comes off as being cheerful. 'Chea' is the antagonist to everything negative! :lol:

Cheaaa!
I am going to text that to my ex girl friend

Cheaaa!

Re: Keeping your samples in tune.

Posted: Mon Jul 12, 2010 10:22 am
by SunkLo
She'll be like "what... the.... why that motherf-...huh?.. :| ... :D ... :lol: Chea!"