Tweak Of The Week!
Tweak Of The Week!
April 19th 1996
This top audio tip provided by Nick Batt, ex-remix slave and programmer/engineer of loads of crass dance remixes..
Reapeat to Fade
Or
Using midi-note on to trigger sample recording.
I know, not exactly the snappiest of titles but useful none-the-less.
The idea is:
You need to sample something of tape and put it at another point of the song, say a great vocal ad-lib or a particularly 'emotion sodden' chorus ( Or the only bit that whoever it was could get right!)
You gotta have a sequencer running to timecode.
In your sequencer, create a pattern that starts a bar before the sample you want, pick the nearest beat that's just before the bit you want and put a note there -say C3(60) . Now set up your sampler to trigger recording on midi recieve note on -Akai's S series do it so I'm sure others do.
Rewind the tape, mute any other midi tracks on the sequncer, hit 'get ready to sample' or equivalent and roll the tape. The sequencer picks up the sync, plays the pattern and the sampler receives the C3 so it starts recording. (Remember to have the sequencer in sync!)
So, now you have the bit you want in the sampler.
Set it to play the entire sample when it receives a note on. Either that or make the note you put in the pattern long enough to play the entire sample) If you do the latter you won't need to mess about putting it into a program cause if you use Akai stuff the default pitch value is C3 or note number 60.
Move the pattern to wherever you want in the sequence- (remember to put it a bar early) and VIOLA! it'll play back exactly in time. SUPER!
This really is best suited to music that's based around machines so as the tempo is solid- but nobody makes the old kind of music anymore right?
You can now repeat that one good take till your hearts content. I think Belinda Carlisle must use this technique a lot for those endless repeat choruses...........
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