Need technical advice on sampling laying

AmitD

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.

skipp

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.

AmitD

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.

dubhausdisco

Just copy A to an empty pad, edit how you want it, save to a new sample.

AmitD

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.

DigitalResonance

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..

AmitD

I see... thanks.
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