Did you prepare Your sample before to put them in the Analog Rytm too ? And then Record and made your final tweaks in DAW ? Do you think it’s LIVE Performance oriented (the act of maximize gems to get out the most of the outputs) ?
How do you prepare your sounds guys in a typical scenario than mine, you working in a hybrid context to start to build BUT made final arrangements in a DAW. ? Do you record all individual outputs as MONO and FX return as a Stereo ?
Because i can understand to prepare gems in a LIVE context to get the most of your outputs … But in the prepare of Octatrack, Analog Rytm, etc… I confused on the idea to compress, and compress and recompress stuff…
So your knowledge and experience here is waited ? on the Organization subject.
I Always use an analog source - Vinyl or VHS tape for all my samples–record at 96KHZ 24 bit into computer and then use RX4 to trim sample for C6
I let C6 do the conversion on the fly
I never normalise --i usually record at -3 db
for me it’s a lesson learnt kind of thing with EQing and normalizing samples.
Many years ago I had a MD and the non normalized samples were always too quiet to compete with the synthesized sounds of the MD, and on stage I had many problems with kicks with too much content below 20 - 30 Hz, bass out of control during a live act is the last thing I want nowadays.
Something to note is that most software doesn’t do sample rate conversion very well and can introduce artifacts into the sample file. I always use Audacity to convert the sample to the Rytms native 48kHz 16bit before sending it to the Rytm with C6, because Audacity has a good SRC algorithm and C6 is buggy all around.
Making the absolute beginning and end of the sample 0db. Otherwise, it can cause clicks.[/quote]
No, this is not DC offset.
DC offset is when the signal is not centered around 0 Volt. In other words, the AC signal is riding on a DC offset. In the case of a sine wave, for instance:
Making the absolute beginning and end of the sample 0db. Otherwise, it can cause clicks.[/quote]
No, this is not DC offset.
DC offset is when the signal is not centered around 0 Volt. In other words, the AC signal is riding on a DC offset. In the case of a sine wave, for instance:
Making the absolute beginning and end of the sample 0db. Otherwise, it can cause clicks.[/quote]
No, this is not DC offset.
DC offset is when the signal is not centered around 0 Volt. In other words, the AC signal is riding on a DC offset. In the case of a sine wave, for instance:
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I try this but it’s hard to get perfect. How important is it to you? Do you want both sides centered?
Also, I remove unwanted sound like fuzz, buzz, etc…
Normalize and DC offset plus making sure the sample starts where it should. Some samples have quite a lot of silence in the beginning and that doesn’t sound good/tight especially on percussive samples.
Apart from that I always convict to 16bit 48kHz mono to be able to hear exactly what the sample will sound like before sending it to the AR.
Great tips, thanks guys. I just left any processing to C6 and my AR for my first couple of sets of samples, but I have started doing the stereo-to-mono and upsampling in Audacity now.
For some reason my PC and my RME Fireface are not happy with Audacity 2.0…6 and I am not sure why. The communication stops working (but the RME can still functions as if in stand-alone mode). Perhaps there is a conflict with the sample rate for the samples and I need to change that temporarily for my soundcard driver while doing the upsampling from 44.1 kHz to 48 kHz.
On another note, wow even with turbo mode it takes some time for a longer (e.g. ~ 1.3 MB) sample to transfer over.
