"Back to back" samples

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I was introduced to this idea by @Phurniture :

@Phurniture

Another crazy thing I did once was create samples where it was an 808 drum sound followed by the equivalent 909 drum sound, but reversed. So the 808 kick followed by reversed 909 kick, 808 snare with reversed 909 snare, etc.

This way you can instantly change from one sound to another with the press of the reverse button. You just need to make sure you’re always at 50% sample length.

Using Control All you can swap the entire kit instantly as well.

I’ve tried this and got usable results, but I’ve found the 50% length thing doesn’t work as you might expect, at least not for hot-swapping the two sounds with only the ‘reverse’ button. (This is on firmware 1.1.3).

The way M:S combines start/end and reverse is to select start and end point first, then reverse. So if you set length to 50% then simply hit reverse, you get the same sample (first half) reversed. To hear the second half reversed you also need to select start: 60 and end: 120, so it’s really only p-lockable, you won’t be able to do it live.

To hot-swap two samples using only the ‘reverse’ button, you either have to

• choose samples that are long, and hope trigs are close enough together so the second half never gets heard, or
• thoroughly prepare your track for reversing by following every note trig with a trigless trig that shortens the decay, so you never hear the second half. The duration before the new decay sets in can be fine tuned by nudging the trigless trig.

EDIT: Technique also referenced in the Digitakt category ( DigiChain thread ) but may be more appropriate here in M:S land:

@Phurniture

I don’t see why it wouldn’t work on a Digitakt, although it’s much more convenient having a dedicated Reverse button on the Model:Samples

[Phurniture]

Instead of setting the Sample Length to 50% (keep it at max), set the Decay to 50%. See if that works better.