[Rwp] importing samples and playing them on a keyboard as an instrument

Juan Pablo Bello juanpisjaws at gmail.com
Fri Feb 12 23:33:48 EST 2016


thanks for the so helpful information... so i can now do electronica
and techno and trance stuff with reaper! though has anyone checked out
playtime? at https://www.helgoboss.org/projects/playtime/

2016-02-12 23:16 GMT-05:00, Chris Belle <cb1963 at sbcglobal.net>:
> Here is the sfz basics manual.
> https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/10911937/sfz1.txt?dl=1
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> On 2/12/2016 10:10 PM, Chris Belle wrote:
>> This is exactly what the sfz format is so great at,
>> You can get sforzando at plogue.com.
>> This email is not the place to teach you the sfz  but I do private
>> tutoring if you really want to get in to it.
>> Essentially, it is so good for us blindy's because there is no complex
>> GUI, you make your sfz with a text file and you can have unlimited
>> layers, and key switching, and filters, and all sorts of groovy
>> sampler stuff, I have crafted lots of drumkits, and keyed instruments,
>> it has round robin and sequenced sample playback, and random
>> generators, and all the things you'd want in a samper.
>> And because it's a text file, it's 100 percent accessible.
>> As a matter of fact, dimension pro and rapture and the like are based
>> on the sfz format.
>> These are made by cakewalk, but they can be used in other DAW's.
>> The interfaces of these instruments are more complex though, you can
>> stil control a lot at the sfz level, but the simple sfz player and the
>> better sforzando
>> I mentioned are your ticket to easy sampled playback.
>> Just to give a quick example of what a sfz file would look like,
>> //snip
>> //kick
>> <group>
>> loop_mode=one_shot
>> <region>
>> sample=kick1.wav
>> key=35
>> <region>
>> sample=kick2.wav
>> key=36
>> //end
>>
>> There you go I just expressed two kick samples and told them to play
>> on b and c.
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>> On 2/12/2016 9:31 PM, Kevin Struska wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>> I have a folder full of wav files that have been sampled with various
>>> drums, one shots, snares, kicks, etc. HOw hard is it to bring all of
>>> these into reaper and be able to play them, similar to playing a drum
>>> kit on a keyboard? I'm guessing I'd have to assign different wav
>>> files to different keys? or is there an easier way.
>>>
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