KVR Audio

TeddyMadison · Post by **TeddyMadison** » Sat Dec 20, 2014 2:28 pm

I very often use audio envelopes and like to really mess around with the audio, Usually using 4 bar loops as instruments themselves. Been messing around with the cubase elements 7 demo for a few days because im VERY tempted by Cubase pro 8, but im having somewhat a difficult time accessing envelopes, pitch shifting, stretching etc etc. (also does cubase have a sampler?)

Are there any tutorials or can anyone let me know how I can access these features?

Thanks!

jancivil · Post by **jancivil** » Sat Dec 20, 2014 5:28 pm

well, in the full Cubase these are features in the "Audio" menu, there is no problem of "access". You might save some time by accessing the comparison of Elements vs full at Steinberg's website; I can't imagine 'hard to access' unless it's features it doesn't actually have. The demo of C8 is probably not out yet but they do provide demos of the full program.

xbitz · Post by **xbitz** » Sat Dec 20, 2014 7:59 pm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkNl07RXA00

it doesn't have sampler by default u have to buy Halion, or some third-party solution like MUX from Mulab

if u want to use Intrument Rack like solution inside Cubase

standalone · Post by **standalone** » Sat Dec 20, 2014 9:35 pm

It does have a very good drum sampler

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7FD7oH6t56s

thebutler · Post by **thebutler** » Sun Dec 21, 2014 11:29 am

No, no - it is not a drum sampler; shouldn't be allowed to be called any sort of 'sampler' instrument at all. It has no input or record facility.

Full stop.

It is a sample PLAYER...

Kontakt..? Halion..? GrooveAgent... etc etc,..? None of these are samplers.

Its a shame. And its sh*t. And its wrong. And slowly kids don't properly understand; the language moves on and pockets of truth get smaller and smaller. Detail is lost.

The Akai S900/950; the Roland S760; the Yamaha TX16W... These are samplers.

Oh, and of course, so is the very excellent software version of the Yamaha model - TX16Wx from CWI Tec - http://www.tx16wx.com/

Sorry all. Sunday morning grumpiness prevails for now...

xbitz · Post by **xbitz** » Sun Dec 21, 2014 9:10 pm

another ones, a long

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PRBeLmeindQ

and the two new C8 related ones

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHOD171Biuw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ka3In5avrb0

Painmooser · Post by **Painmooser** » Sun Dec 21, 2014 9:24 pm

thebutler wrote:No, no - it is not a drum sampler; shouldn't be allowed to be called any sort of 'sampler' instrument at all. It has no input or record facility.

Full stop.

It is a sample PLAYER...

Kontakt..? Halion..? GrooveAgent... etc etc,..? None of these are samplers.

Its a shame. And its sh*t. And its wrong. And slowly kids don't properly understand; the language moves on and pockets of truth get smaller and smaller. Detail is lost.

The Akai S900/950; the Roland S760; the Yamaha TX16W... These are samplers.

Oh, and of course, so is the very excellent software version of the Yamaha model - TX16Wx from CWI Tec - http://www.tx16wx.com/

Sorry all. Sunday morning grumpiness prevails for now...

does this distinction still makes sense in our day and age?

ITB to sample is not even a real task anymore. either you already have samples, or you bounce or you use record features of your sequencer. yes a sequencer that samples.

isnt cubase a sampler aswell? it can sample and play samples at different speeds and pitch - and you can do all sorts of audio editing too.

but would you call Cubase a sampler?

I even went as far and using sample players as synthesizers with laoding sine or square waves looping them and modulating them.. kontakt is a synthesizer? is a sampler a wavetable synthesizer? I dunno. isnt a digital synthesizer a sample player that plays short samples and modulates them? what is omnisphere?

the only distinction I do nowadays is: tone generator and tone effector.. and tone generators can take external sources (aka sample player)

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