Planning a few Bass Guitar sample pack releases! - Advice on how to 'format' please
Hey all, I'm really enjoying working with BeatMaker 3 and it's amazing that a creative community is forming around it in this way. I personally moved into the electronic music performance area from instrumental performance, so I'm really enjoying exploring how to express creativity and expression with this different set of tools. While I've built up quite a bit of experience performing with iOS devices over the last 2 years I've never used such a deep sampler as this, so it's really great to see how other people are exploring it themselves and take inspiration from other people's creativity!
I want to use my bass playing in electronic composition as that's the skill I've really put the time into mastering, but I have a long term forearm injury (from playing too many gigs on upright bass in a row .. ) which is preventing me from playing much. Beyond the gigs I do to earn a living I don't really want to put much more time in, as it'll slow my healing or even make things worse.
I figure that the most time efficient way to do it is to make myself some sample packs of my playing and use those in compositions. In the spirit of community then it seems logical to make it available for everyone else too!
These are the 'themes' I'm thinking of:
Clockwork Bass - Various flavours of rock bass recorded with a 93 Status Graphite fretted electric bass, both DI'd clean and processed in parallel with various vintage and boutique effects that I acquired over a decade or so. Includes various types of fingers playing with lashings of slap, tapping, harmonics and a few other kinds of thumb technique, all on the agressive side of the spectrum.
This first one is already recorded and just needs preparing for release.
I'm planning for the near'ish' future:
The Harmonic Algorithm - I wrote a book last year by this title, which exhaustively extrapolates all possible Harmonic variations for performing on an electric bass using overtone production techniques. Much more on the experimental side. That's all I'm going to say about this one so far. Recorded on an 87 Yamaha TRB fitted with additional piezo transducer.
I'm thinking of doing a fretless bass bank too using my 87 fretless jazz, but that'd come later as fretless is my real specialisation and I can't play my instrument for long enough in one go at the moment to create something that I feel does justice to the craft.
What I'd like to ask is if anyone has any advice on how is best to 'format' the structure of the Clockwork Bass pack in terms of how to deliver the audio files and how to make it easiest for people to load them into BeatMaker 3 (The 'Harmonic Algorithm' pack is something totally different that'll make logical sense when it's all put together). For example is it possible to just make a special 'BM3 pack' that can just be imported, or should I put the files in a certain structure or something?
The primary consideration is that I've recorded everything for the Clockwork Bass pack as full 'tracks' with various sections that repeat logically based on the different subgenres represented, because I felt that this would better capture the dynamics and contour that naturally occur throughout instrumental performances of a rock track. I could just label them up and release, but perhaps it's better if I split them up into different sections and label them in a specific way or something? I've not really used sample packs much so not too sure of the 'standard' procedure that'll fit best with most people's workflow.
Cheers!
Oscar
I want to use my bass playing in electronic composition as that's the skill I've really put the time into mastering, but I have a long term forearm injury (from playing too many gigs on upright bass in a row .. ) which is preventing me from playing much. Beyond the gigs I do to earn a living I don't really want to put much more time in, as it'll slow my healing or even make things worse.
I figure that the most time efficient way to do it is to make myself some sample packs of my playing and use those in compositions. In the spirit of community then it seems logical to make it available for everyone else too!
These are the 'themes' I'm thinking of:
Clockwork Bass - Various flavours of rock bass recorded with a 93 Status Graphite fretted electric bass, both DI'd clean and processed in parallel with various vintage and boutique effects that I acquired over a decade or so. Includes various types of fingers playing with lashings of slap, tapping, harmonics and a few other kinds of thumb technique, all on the agressive side of the spectrum.
This first one is already recorded and just needs preparing for release.
I'm planning for the near'ish' future:
The Harmonic Algorithm - I wrote a book last year by this title, which exhaustively extrapolates all possible Harmonic variations for performing on an electric bass using overtone production techniques. Much more on the experimental side. That's all I'm going to say about this one so far. Recorded on an 87 Yamaha TRB fitted with additional piezo transducer.
I'm thinking of doing a fretless bass bank too using my 87 fretless jazz, but that'd come later as fretless is my real specialisation and I can't play my instrument for long enough in one go at the moment to create something that I feel does justice to the craft.
What I'd like to ask is if anyone has any advice on how is best to 'format' the structure of the Clockwork Bass pack in terms of how to deliver the audio files and how to make it easiest for people to load them into BeatMaker 3 (The 'Harmonic Algorithm' pack is something totally different that'll make logical sense when it's all put together). For example is it possible to just make a special 'BM3 pack' that can just be imported, or should I put the files in a certain structure or something?
The primary consideration is that I've recorded everything for the Clockwork Bass pack as full 'tracks' with various sections that repeat logically based on the different subgenres represented, because I felt that this would better capture the dynamics and contour that naturally occur throughout instrumental performances of a rock track. I could just label them up and release, but perhaps it's better if I split them up into different sections and label them in a specific way or something? I've not really used sample packs much so not too sure of the 'standard' procedure that'll fit best with most people's workflow.
Cheers!
Oscar
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Not sure about the formatting, without actually seeing the pack it is hard to comment.
I can set up a quick page for hosting downloads if you need help with that though.
If you can send me the pack, i can look at how i would format the samples, I do it a a lot for commercial packs, but i still use heavy foldering/subfoldering in my collections, a lot of us oldschool guys prefer foldering to tagging (but tagging doesn't work properly right now in BM3 anyway)
I actually recorded the natural overtones for the 'Harmonic Algorithm' pack today, as I figured out 'theoretically' a really cool way of configuring them in a performative sense and wanted to try it out. I'll post up an example soon!
@5pinlink I can send you some bits over to have a look at when I get one of the 'tracks' to where it's sort of ready, if ya fancy?