[NEWBIE] Long sample with Kontakt

I am suggesting the BETTER way to do things to OP. He's admittedly a newbie and doesn't know how things are usually done (obviously) when instrument sampling is in question. That's very relevant. Everything else is irrelevant.

kb123 only added one more reason (which is actually the best one) why OP indeed SHOULD cut the samples, whether he likes it or not. Case closed.

 

Plonker alert!

 

man what is wrong with you? Do you think your right? Look at this scenario as asking for driving directions. I say to you(asking for driving directions) "hey I want to go to so and so without cutting through the woods" you tell me "well believe it or not its actually better to cut through the woods and risk getting attacked by a bear. musicman7p comes along and tells me "hey you can go to so and so without going through the woods". In this case you didn't help me get to where I wanted to go because you told me to do exactly what I didn't want to do, musicman7p helped me because he helped me do exactly what I wanted to do. I hope its bright and clear that musicman7p's answer is the right answer and your answer(EvilDragon) was irrelevant and did not help the situation so therefore making it wrong. As I said before you make it seems like your so called suggestion was an alternative which it was not.

 

Forgive me for butting in, but I agree with EvilDragon. Definitely better to separate each note to its own file. If it really is a problem to do though, Kontakt can easily create slices and map each note to its own zone. Duplicating the zone and changing the start and end point will not increase the size of the Kontakt instrument. It will be exactly the same as all the zones would be referencing the same, single audio file.

 

musicman: Kontakt is a multifunction instrument, there are generally many ways to go about achieving something in Kontakt. Does that make any of them wrong? no, are some ways more efficient than others? sure.

Even if the OP doesn't want to cut up his samples this time, knowing the informaton, he may well want to do it the most efficient way next time, and now he knows. Please explain why that is a problem and why evildragon is wrong in pointing this out?

 

Dear EvilDragon, musicman7p and all the kind people who answered me,

In doubt of which way to choose (segmenting the files or keeping it long and working with slices) I've decided to... use them both and see what is my opinion, as long as I didn't have HOURS of recorded sessions.

Well, according to me working with slices was faster, much more precise in cut and more elegant, while doing it with hundreds of cuts was more powerful when dealing with loops, it helped me keep my loops in a clean way. But it was more tedious with sample-mapping.

What's the best way to deal with this problem, according to me? Well, probably both of them, it just depends if you have to deal with loops (bandoneon, concertina, violin) or single strike notes (drums, bandoneon hits, piano).

Thank you very much to all of you: you were very kind!

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Riccardo Santato

 

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