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Hey guys, I really dont get the point in sampling... Is it not easier to make a bass and then instead of going through the hassle of bouncing etc, to just change the effects on the actual track!? Im so confused, someone please explain sampling to me! :'(

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ScarletCyanide wrote:Hey guys, I really dont get the point in sampling... Is it not easier to make a bass and then instead of going through the hassle of bouncing etc, to just change the effects on the actual track!? Im so confused, someone please explain sampling to me! :'(

That's not sampling, that's resampling.

resampling helps to free up cpu
sampling is a creative technique used to manipulate samples to suite your needs, glitch, chop, flange, rhythmic chops, etc.

ScarletCyanide wrote:Hey guys, I really dont get the point in sampling... Is it not easier to make a bass and then instead of going through the hassle of bouncing etc, to just change the effects on the actual track!? Im so confused, someone please explain sampling to me! :'(

when you resample, you can chop up the audio, rearrange it, reverse it etc. you can also process it with some effects, load it into a sampler then play the processed version at different notes, thus speeding up and slowing the effects. you can then resample the output from the sampler and keep going.

resampling - making your own sounds and re-recording it to save cpu/make extra long effects chains/try and sound like noisia.

sampling - the basis of almot all modern electronic music, taking someones previous works and changing it to make it your own/recording sounds from all around you/stealing skrillex's basslines so you can be a bad ass

now, did you mean sampling or resampling?

ScarletCyanide wrote:Hey guys, I really dont get the point in sampling... Is it not easier to make a bass and then instead of going through the hassle of bouncing etc, to just change the effects on the actual track!? Im so confused, someone please explain sampling to me! :'(

If you dont get the point you'll probably benefit nothing from it, so just don't do it
Bouncing your synths is just a technique, not something you must do.

it lets you apply fades, crossfades, edit, reverse, transpose, mangle, duplicate, and otherwise freely toss a piece of audio around like a rag doll, rather than coddle your cpu-hungry, less-stable soft-synth . Especially if you want to do heavy duty stuff to it like send it to four busses with linear phase EQs soloing each frequency band and further affecting each one and again resampling to make it sound different
then you can toss it in your samples drive, and have it forever, too.
some people like tweaking and saving patches forever, others like to craft a sound, commit it to tape, and move on. just a preference/work flow thing

-[2]DAY_- wrote:it lets you apply fades, crossfades, edit, reverse, transpose, mangle, duplicate, and otherwise freely toss a piece of audio around like a rag doll, rather than coddle your cpu-hungry, less-stable soft-synth . Especially if you want to do heavy duty stuff to it like send it to four busses with linear phase EQs soloing each frequency band and further affecting each one and again resampling to make it sound different
then you can toss it in your samples drive, and have it forever, too.
some people like tweaking and saving patches forever, others like to craft a sound, commit it to tape, and move on. just a preference/work flow thing

and it's also fun

good point, that's very true and the most important benefit of all