Hey all. So my ventures into chopping and sampling have been thus far… Sub par at best. But I figured it would be worth showing everyone a trick I learned from the Caustic forums that enables you to step sequence samples you may have or may have chopped.
Utilizing PCMsynth I have provided a 6 step tutorial below
1) Open a new PCMsynth. Long click the “Sample” button
2) Select the sample you want to use. Here I Selected a Kick drum
3) Long press the root key button, then press the keyboard key you want to use.
– If this is your only sample match it to the root note of the sample and you are done
– If this is one of multiple samples you want to insert, choose a root key and continue following the tutorial (C4 is a good key to start with)
4) Long press Lowkey and match it to the root key
5) Long press Highkey and match it to the root key
– The sample will now be stuck to the root key and not work with any other
6) Short press sample and turn the dial to select the next sample
– Follow the tutorial again for however many samples you would like to insert, just utilize another root key
In other news I have figured out how to sample my Casio and as I mentioned before it has some interesting percussion samples. I think while I am figuring out this chopping nonsense I am going to take some very LowFi .wav samples for people to have fun with. Who knows maybe there will be a PCMsynth preset with them.
There are also some fun sounds so I will most likely sample some of those over time as well.