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Need technical advice on sampling laying

AmitDAmitD
edited January 2013 in General
Hi,
I am having a technical difficulty which I couldn't find an elegant solution for...
Here it is: assuming I have two samples - A (long) and B (short).
I would like to lay down sample A and after a while switch to sample B, and then return to A (but not to its beginning, but to where it already progressed to)...

And trying to be more clear - at t1 I want only B, at t2 I want only A to continue (as if B didn't exist).
[............A............]
....[..B..]..............
t0..t1...t2..............

Is there an elegant way to do it on BM2 <!-- s:?: --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_question.gif" alt=":?:" title="Question" /><!-- s:?: -->
I couldn't find any.
I can either re-chop A and lay the 2nd part after B, or put A and B on separate tracks and mute A's track, using track automation, when B is played, but these are cumbersome solutions (every time B's position is changed I need to modify A automation).

Thank you.

Comments

  • skippskipp
    edited 10:50PM
    The answer depends on how you define elegant and the type of samples you want to use...?

    My first stab would be to put each sample on a pad and activate the low pass filter. I'd then trigger the samples at the same/correct time and switch them in and out by automating the filter to fully open or closed. No doubt you could do the same with volume, as you've suggested, but I like the tonal possibilities of the filter, and having both samples and their automation on the same track. Of course you'd need some midi mapping software/hardware to play this rather than program it but there are some from which both midi messages could be played from a single key press. If however the timings were always the same you could program the filter/volume automation and repeat it on a separate track and then record the pads in real time.
  • AmitDAmitD
    edited 10:50PM
    By "switch them in and out by automating the filter to fully open or closed" you mean using the pads automation (Sequencer -> Notes edit -> Pads -> Pad A -> Filter -> cutoff)?

    I will give it a try, but (as you've mentioned) using the sequencer automation for that seems too complicated.
    Thank you.
  • dubhausdiscodubhausdisco
    edited 10:50PM
    Just copy A to an empty pad, edit how you want it, save to a new sample.
  • AmitDAmitD
    edited 10:50PM
    But I want to play A and during that, switch to sample B, and return to A.
    And when B is played, I don't want to hear A - it should somehow silence (or close the filter of) A.

    I want it to be flexible and dynamic - I don't want to re-edit A every time.
  • DigitalResonanceDigitalResonance
    edited 10:50PM
    Side chain compress A with B so that every time B is played A will be ducked out or reduced in volume until b ends then it will return to its normal level..
  • AmitDAmitD
    edited 10:50PM
    I see... thanks.
    (I'm a newbie, collecting tips <!-- s:-) --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_e_smile.gif" alt=":-)" title="Smile" /><!-- s:-) -->
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