Live’s audio exporter offers 48Khz 24bit Normalised Mono tracks.
I would recommend using short file names so that the names are legible in the DT’s small display system - I’m not sure right now what the limit is but think around ten characters.
The other thing to bear in mind is whether you want to work with sample chains. My own experience suggests that it is an excellent way to pack more than 128 samples into the DT’s ram storage. The ram is limited to 64Mb and if your sample size is small (as most drum samples are) then the limit is not the 64Mb but the 128 sample limitation. By say packing eight samples into a single chain the equivalent number of potential samples loaded into RAM increases to 8 x 128 = 1024.
I recommend either packing similar types of samples together - i.e. a series of kick drums or exporting a kit-chain of kick, snare, ohh, chh, tom, ride, kick2, snare 2. The advantage of the latter - particularly if you keep the order of equivalent sample types the same in each chain is that an entire ‘kit’ can be switched using Ctl-all (of course you will need multiple kit-chains set up the same way to do this).
The main drawback of this approach is more time is needed preparing the samples for export. If you decide to do this you would need to take care to ensure that the placing of each sample in the sample chain is the same - which generally means that some RAM space is wasted but personally I think the trade off is worth it.
The main caveat is that at present the DT does not provide a zoomed in display of the samples in memory making it difficult to ‘dial-in’ the correct sample start location.
My own solution is to create the sample chain with eight drum samples all equally spaced, and then to use the DT sample start knob to dial in 0,15,30,45,60,75,90,105 offsets which in this context takes you to the exact start point of each sample in the chain - these values can be p-locked within each track which is great. If Elektron were to implement a FUNC sample start option to jump in discreet increment values then this approach could be a dream to work with. Given that other DT knob values such as tuning use the FUNC key to jump in discreet units, this would be extremely easy for the DT’s engineers to implement. However I fear that these same individuals are now most likely working on the successor to the Model:Samples so this may never happen.
