Best way to deal with audio cd's

Just wondering what the easiest way to segment .wav files that I've imported from an audio CD?....

These files contain a full loop at the beginning followed by various instrument segments from that loop. So the whole files contains various loops.

I would like to have these segments separated somehow so I can slice them and map them.

What's the best way to do this in Kontakt 3?

Much appreciated...

 

You can do all the trimmimbg inside Kontakt and don't actually have to cut anything. Just drag the file into an empty patch - open wave editor - select starting and end point and loop it if you want to (you can also use multiple loops) - then either drag in the same file again and trim the second sound you want or use the copy zone function. Personally I would create a new group for each segment in case I wanted to apply different fx/outputs/envelopes to the different segments later on.

 

thanks for that....so when I drag in a wav file with different loops within it, and I only want to work on the 1st loop (add slices and map it to the keyboard) do I have to trim away the rest of the file? (if so how do you do that?) ..then I'd have to drag the original file in again and work on the next loop in the file?....

Or can I select the 1st loop in the file and only slice that section?..then select the next loop and slice it up?...if so how do you slice a particular section only, and not the whole file?

Thanks again...

 

The best way i have found to work with such audio sample cd's ( older big fish audio stuff ect ) is to use Soundforge and use the region list to make and extract the sounds. i prefer this method for 2 reasons the first you have advanced wave editing options in soundforge that are not possible in kontakt and second you have a folder with the files broken up to use later where needed. If you need more info on this or if you need help chopping up the sample cd's I would be more than happy to give you a hand just send me a email at solacerodgers@yahoo.com

 

Ya, that may be the best way...actually that's what I've been doing with Wavelab, although I'm not sure if it has a 'region list' function on it like Soundforge?...I just select the loops and hits and re-save them in a separate folder.

It seems whenever you try and re-import a previously worked on wav file into Kontakt 3, it gives you a message "Warning: found previously edited file with the same name! Overwrite it? (could affect other zones or instruments)"

There must be a workaround for this, I'm just not sure what it is. If anyone does, please let me know.

Thanks for the suggestion, much appreciated!

 

I find the best thing to do is to overwrite that option. As stated the best thing to do is chop and rename then rebuild the database so your not running into that error everytime. Also i like to go under options and check the auto add loaded / saved files to database that way i know the sample is being saved where it needs to be.

The thing about using a regions list in soundforge is you can go through the file select all the sample you want ( drag out a section and drag it to a region ) then go to tools and export all regions. This allows you to quickly and easily export all the samples into 1 folder with the names given in the regions area very quickly. Takes me about 15-20 min's to do a full 99 track 74min audio cd or so. Also if its all drums you can chop transients to regions and extract so its like a auto chop with extract feature.

 

Thanks for your suggestions, I'm beginning to get the hang of it...