new to sampling

[Scholar]

there are a few songs with some good sounds in them and i would love to sample them but how do you just get the strings and not the bass or the drum and not the strings should i use CE or something like it? and how to match the tempo? i have alot to learn.

 

[MaximeRobin]

You just can't separate sounds.There are somes things that you can do, for exemple: cut the bass in a sound, to put your own bass, but the more you try to change the sound, the more it will sound weird or unatural.

Changing the tempo is easy. You can do it in alot of wave editor (like ce). Or you can strech it in real time in some programs like acid, ableton's live or (i'm not really sure about that) cubase sx. If you got a drum loop or a musical loop that got strong attacks, you can slice it in recycle and make a .rex of it than if you load the sound in a compatible program (most of the sequencing programs) all the slices will snap on the right place they suppose to be. You can just change the tempo and all the each slice will be on time. They won't be strech tho, so if you slow down the beat you'll hear space between slices. I think some hardware sampler accept .rex but I'n not shure. Anybody knows?

 

[Copenhagen]

You can cut the low tones, use plug-in that removes vocals etc...but a lot of the time they don't do a good job unless you've got a very serious editor..they just end up sounding transistor-radio-like and won't remove all the vocals etc.

That's my experience anyway, love to hear if anybody has a fully working way of professionally removing instruments/vocals from a song.

 

[Fade]

If you come across a song with an individual instrument (e.g. saxophone) panned hard left or right, totally isolated, then yes, you can take that out. You can filter a sample to death by removing certain frequencies but it will sound like shit and there will still be the other instruments in there.

 

[DJ Excellence]

digg for separate elements ! It can be time consuming ..... but finding ill samples on obscure records is better than sex ....

 

[milLion]

all the points mentioned previously are very true -- the best thing you can do like philsiarri said is dig for seperate elements -- this will be the cleanest way to cut samples -- otherwise you will be filtering to death -- which can give you different results than you desire

 

[HaZwaiOh]

lots of old tunes have 80% of the drums on one channel and the rest on the other channel. just split up the stereo signal into 2 mono signals. hope this was of any help.