Today I thought I would take a random free sitar sample -- the second one down the list on the right side of this page, if you are curious -- and try to make a whole song using the sample, a few percussion samples, and effects. Here is the result so far:

http://www.philosophaster.com/goodi...le_madness3.mp3

I found that it's a good exercise in creativity to try to squeeze as many different sounds as you can out of just one sample. Here is a clip of the sample played dry, followed by the different sounds I got out of it:

http://www.philosophaster.com/goodi...sformations.mp3

I used Audacity to isolate certain parts of the sample for some sounds, and Reason for everything else.

Have any of you guys tried this before?

I hadn't really messed around with sampling much before, but it opens up some really neat possibilities. I put a reverb on a violin sample, set the decay really high, saved a note playing, then used a sound editor to cut out everything but the reverby part. It left me with this sound:

http://www.philosophaster.com/goodi...verb_sample.mp3

I did a similar thing with a trombone sample, and added a bit of distortion. Sounds pretty cool, I think:

http://www.philosophaster.com/goodi...asatrombone.mp3

New sound, mixing a few things together:

http://www.philosophaster.com/goodies/wow.mp3

ur crazy

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Is that a compliment, or a diagnosis?

I've never been keen on the sound of a sitar, but the violin and trombone effects sound very warm and immersive. Like the texture a lot.

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I added some more octaves to the violin sound to make it "bigger":

http://www.philosophaster.com/music...violin_verb.mp3

The violin stuff is good

lol...sounds like a nutter with a casio SK1 and some spare time.


only jokin....it's original though.

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Originally posted by MrJiveBoJingles I added some more octaves to the violin sound to make it "bigger": http://www.philosophaster.com/music...violin_verb.mp3

i like this

sounds very ambient

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