Comments on: Trifonic: Creating Your Own Multi-Sampled Instruments

By: muzic72

muzic72 — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 23:01:46 +0000

Brian thank you for your response.!! I really appreciate you taking time out of your schedule. Once again, Thank you.

By: briantrifon

briantrifon — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 21:38:04 +0000

Thanks! I would record each note for several seconds. It is probably easiest to record them all into one audio file with a second or so of silence between each new note. If you are using Logic 8 or earlier you'll want to cut each note into its own region, crop it appropriately and convert each region into new audio files (so each note is its own audio file.) Logic 9 makes it really easy… control click on the audio file and choose 'convert to new sampler instrument' and it automatically create an EXS24 instrument.

By: muzic72

muzic72 — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 01:56:47 +0000

Excellent Tutorial. I am a newbie and have not created a kit out of an external instrument. I would like to create a kit out of my Juno-109. Should I record each note that I want add to kit as an individual wave file
and then map the wave files to the corresponding zone in the EXS24? How long should I hold each note?
Hope I explained my self correctly. Would you consider making a tutorial on this subject?

Thank you! – Ian S.

By: Navi Retlav

Navi Retlav — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 18:41:37 +0000

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By: briantrifon

briantrifon — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 15:11:24 +0000

thanks Navi! we don't do our own mastering, we used Roger Seibel at SAE mastering for 'Emergence' and Shawn Hatfield (aka Twerk) of audibleoddities.com for Remergence EP and Growing Distance Ep.

It is pretty difficult to do short form video tutorials about mixing, but I'll consider the idea. In the meantime if you use PT at all I highly recommend checking out: 'Mixing & Mastering in Pro Tools 8' (Lynda.com) by my good friend Brian White.

By: Navi Retlav

Navi Retlav — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 08:26:13 +0000

Nice tutorial.

Btw. Trifonic have very awesome, unique bright and clear mastering.
Can you show in next tutorial how to make similar mix setup and mastering ?

By: eddy

eddy — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 07:32:48 +0000

Good tutorial. Please keep them coming.
Is there any other useful video tutorials you can suggest?

By: Morphido

Morphido — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 21:21:43 +0000

Very interesting video too!
I'm grad to see you use EXS24, powerful tool but with difficult interface. Sampler or Kontakt seems to be easier than EXS24.
Thanks for share it! go ahead!

By: danilo60

danilo60 — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 11:31:51 +0000

Excelent!!! Tutorial Videos and Excelent!!! Music

Felicitaciones!! from Buenos Aires Argentina.

By: briantrifon

briantrifon — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 23:50:03 +0000

Hey Ian, thanks for the comment. Loading a single sample into EXS24 is very simple. Load an instance of EXS24, click the edit button to bring up the mapping editor and drag and drop the audio file from the arrangement or even the finder into the zone portion of the mapping editor. It will automatically create a zone the length of the entire keyboard with your sample. By default the root key (the note that it will play back at its original pitch/speed) is C3. Anyway, both EXS24, Kontakt, Structure etc make it very easy to drag and drop load samples. I definitely would suggest reading the manual about sample mapping and sample editing. Fortunately the EXS24 portion of the Logic manual is written well and clearly explained. Good luck!