apologies for my multipe posts here but i'm just getting everything up and running again having upgraded to cubase 5 and having RTFM'd I'm none the wiser! Here's what I want to do: I want to go through all my sounds and when I find a good sound and 'riff' with said sound i'd like to save it as a midi file with the accompanying sound to import into a project on the assumption that i'm going to created multiple bass riffs, drum riffs etc.. that i can later combine. rather like less adventurous people might throw together a bunch of commercial loops to create a track. Is this possible - and am I making any sense?! I'm happy to elaborate if someone feels they know a solution from my ambiguous request! Many thanks guys. H
"hproductions" <> wrote in message news:... > apologies for my multipe posts here but i'm just getting everything up > and running again having upgraded to cubase 5 and having RTFM'd I'm > none the wiser! > > Here's what I want to do: > > I want to go through all my sounds and when I find a good sound and > 'riff' with said sound i'd like to save it as a midi file with the > accompanying sound to import into a project on the assumption that i'm > going to created multiple bass riffs, drum riffs etc.. that i can > later combine. rather like less adventurous people might throw > together a bunch of commercial loops to create a track. > > Is this possible - and am I making any sense?! > > I'm happy to elaborate if someone feels they know a solution from my > ambiguous request! > > Many thanks guys. > > H I'm not exactly sure what you mean here. What do you mean exactly by your 'sounds'? Are these existing external MIDI module generated sounds, VSTi or other soft synth sounds, samples, guitar FX or what? Sorry for being a bit dim on this I assume that the sounds you refer to are already in a form which means they can be triggered by MIDI? You can save 'composite' type MIDI files which can auto load the required banks and patches from your MIDI module on playback - this is probably best demonstrated by commercially available MIDI backing tracks which are often designed to play back using a GM compatible hardware or software based sound MIDI sound module. You can create your own audio based loops as .WAV files for example which you can drop in to your recordings and pitch shift/stretch to fit. You can, with a suitable software sampler, create your own sample sets whether they be single notes from your favourite real-life grand piano or whether they be phrases that you want to trigger by MIDI. Although C5 comes with Halion One, you can't make your own samples with it. To do that you'd need something like Halion 3, Kontakt or maybe SampleTank. To be honest I don't play around with sampling too much these days and haven't for a long time as it was too time consuming particularly when there were plenty of good quality synth based sounds around anyway. There are some free VST sampler apps here and there on the Net if you Google for them (don't know if any are any good though). I don't know if that's of any help to you? Probably not as I am unclear as to where you are getting your 'sounds' from
