Good stuff y’all.
The beauty of this is that you would then be able to start manipulating / recording immediately with apps as opposed to recording on say a field recorder, loading it up and getting it to the iPad. It seems like a dream setup but I’m not convinced of it completely yet. When I’m ready to replace my H4n I’ll see where the equipment is.
Yes yes yes and yes. I really meant as opposed to playing back samples and / or field recordings straight, throwing them into Ableton / OT / iPad / modular whatever, tearing them apart and putting them back together again into something entirely different.
That is it exactly: sounds I’ve made that would do well as musical content - melody, harmony, tuned drums ect. If I were to throw an untuned one-shot into my OT to use for a track with an already rich music sense then finding how to fit it as a new melody would require that I either basically play it in a different key or use OT resources to pitch it. Both anathema.
I’ve gotten pretty decent having my field recorder with me when I go somewhere new, recording music I hear and taking notes on movies or lectures or whatever to sample later. However I don’t have access to say a Lyrebird or the LHC.
Precisely. Which is why I’m so interested in sampling like this. It’s impossible not to be creative using them. They lead to such wild surprises: you could have gotten something you like out of one part of the sample only to have it suddenly turn into something totally other. Constant surprises.
Here are some threads going already, if anyone is interested, though more databases than individual sounds: