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In what units is a sample's amplitude value represented, and how it relates to the real world?
I'm new to digital audio signals and read about sampling rate on hydrogenaudio.
What this doesn't mention is how a single sample's value, ranging from -32768 to 32767 in a 16 bit, relates to any ...
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How to make a sample/note sustained or long in Reason 4?
In Reason 4, some notes play as long as the red bar in the editing window continues. Others have just a single touch with no release and no matter how long the bar, they don't sound continuously.
How ...
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What Windows-based DAW can I use for sample arrangement?
I want to make music where I layer samples over one another. I don't just want these to be samples of notes--I have samples of drum breaks and guitar riffs that I'd like to sequence.
For example, ...
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Changing the sampling or playback rate
Why does changing the sampling or playback rate of a sound changes its pitch?
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tips for making a more realistic “live drummer” sound with only audio samples
I compose and produce my own electronic music and I generally only have trouble with one aspect of music: the drums. Drums are the only major instrument that I have no formal in so its definitely the ...
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Acid Pro alternatives for OS X
Ten years ago I learned how to use Sony's Acid Music in Windows XP, since it allows to compose music using samples and more important, it can automatically match tempo, pitch and lots of other useful ...
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Licence of audio samples
I am not sure if this is the right place to ask, but is there a free-to-use licence for audio samples like drum-kit sounds? And what if I want to use the samples in a commercial application? And what ...
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how to do mono to stereo conversion
(This is a cross-post from StackOverflow. But I wondered wether some people here might be the better audience to answer this.)
I am using libswresample to resample from any PCM format to 44.1kHz, ...
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In Ableton, how come cropped samples aren't cropped as much when imported later?
I've been trying to archive my samples for later use.
Assume I have a sample cropped perfectly in drum rack and I've verified that the sample is how I want it. I've then stored the .wav for the ...
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Where can I license sample libraries for a virtual iOS instrument?
I'm making a virtual instrument for mobile devices. Where can I license a sample library from for this purpose?
For example I would need individual audio files for individual piano notes. The license ...
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All in one sf2 soundbank for Guitar Pro
Where could I buy or download a big soundbank in SF2 format which contains all necessary quality instruments for using it with MIDI exported from Guitar Pro file (gp5)? I need instrustuments that ...
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Is it normal for audio recorded in a particular sampling rate to have distortions when transcoded into another sampling rate?
I'm working on a small video editing project at home and am new at this. I have a multiple videos that I'm combining together into one video and am using the audio from one of these videos as the ...
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How do I get Logic to export the sounds recorded from Kontak w/ Symphobia?
I can get the sounds recorded and on separate tracks but they wont export. It just says there is nothing to export.
Also I cant get Kontak in a regular channel strip with level meter. It will only ...
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Software playing real sounds not midi when writing scores
Is there any software able to synthesize music based on real sounds, not midi when writing scores? I mean something really offering all known instrument sounds and sound dynamics, no matter what it ...
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Where to find music beats
Where can I find drum beat samples or individual notes, especially electronic music styles (electro house, dubstep, trance etc.)?
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Maschine: Automatically tag all samples in folder
Is there a way to automatically tag all samples in a particular folder? For example, I have a folder in my samples directory full of vocals, and I want to tag them all with type "Vocal" and subtype ...
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samples, sampling; the use of these terms in different contexts
I am getting confused with different peoples' uses of the term 'sample' or 'sampling'. Some people using drum beat programs like fruity loops, generate a drum beat sequence and then take a subset ...
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How are vocals and other different tracks separated from a mix?
I am referring to extractions like these:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLKFSmI-iYM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oyx14aFNPX0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xm7w5al2n7o
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What advantages does an MPC-style device have that are not offered by a DAW?
It seems that the MPC-2000 had a long stranglehold on drum programmers and sample editors, but with the rise of DAWs (most notably I think was FL Studio around version 4), are they now obsolete? What ...
