NTFMTS wrote:Oh okay I understand what you're saying, what kinda sampler or sample method are you using? Repetition can be perfectly fine imoho, as long as there are other things changing while something consistently loops, like adding additional layers of effects or textures, but I guess it depends on what your intention is. This track def gives me some earlier OPN vibes btw. I have a decent amount of experience when it comes to samplers, tho I mostly use trackers which some people find to be rigid and unfun (understandably in a lot of cases). But depending on how you sample stuff I might be able to give some additional advice!
I’m using an MPC One firstly to sequence via MIDI-to-CV to a modular or via MIDI to a keyboard synth and then I’m recording individual layers to tape (simply because I like the sound) one by one. Then I’m playing each back through outboard effects like a Space-Echo and sometimes a mono to stereo phaser back into the MPC One sometimes as phrases and sometimes as one shots. Once in the sampler I trim the samples and play them via pads onto the piano roll view (sometimes with quantisation, sometimes without). I add a little on-board digital effects like reverb then record the mixed stereo output into my interface on into Reaper and add some compression.
That reads very convoluted and I suppose it is. I know I’ve had better flow when I have a bank of samples already prepared rather than sampling during composing.
Also, I sort of gave up on the idea of multitracking in a DAW years ago since I found that I got really bogged down. However I am getting more interested in refining my sound rather than simply jamming things out in one session so maybe I need to consider that again.
