For those who record sample material from their analog/hardware synths: what’s your workflow/approach?
Over the years I’ve become accustomed to jamming with my analog synths/drum machines and producing pretty much all of my tracks in real-time, without tracking/printing/sampling my gear (maybe the occasional exception here and there). Lately, I’ve been interested in building sample banks of recordings of my analog synths, especially for drums/percussion.
Do you find it’s worth losing the flexibility of adjusting synth parameters of the sound because you can generally apply EQ/dynamics/other processing to make the changes you need, or apply basic multisampling techniques? Does anyone, for example, record a few measures of a kick drum they synthesized on a monosynth/eurorack setup and then slice it in Simpler or something to capture the slight variation from one hit to another?
I really love the idea of getting an Atlantis in a 4ms Pod and using it to create banks of drum sounds and FX or other one-shots, and am even thinking about selling my AR to offset the purchase since at this point I basically use it for only a small subset of things it can do, but my control freak self is afraid of losing real-time flexibility.
Any tips or experiences in the realm of recording/multisampling/organizing in this context?