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Create a sample instrument using UVI Falcon: step-by-stepДЎ3. Sampling enables you to pitch-shift even a single example across a whole range of notes to create custom instruments. The more you experiment with sound design, the more sounds you might come across that you want to be able to create entire instruments from. In addition to sampling any unusual instruments you come across, you can also create unique, custom instruments from any sounds you might happen to record.

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Learning how to create your own sample instruments opens up whole new creative options in Pro Tools with UVIвЂ™s Falcon instrument. If we donвЂ™t set some amplitude variation, then we will only hear the four velocity strengths that weвЂ™ve recorded providing any dynamic interest. This module also controls how much variation there is when triggering a sample at its lowest and highest velocity position. This is done from the amplitude envelope in the sampler.

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Similarly, we want to try and make sure that the full sample plays out every time a key is hit. For playing as a sample instrument, we want to emulate this type of behaviour, so we donвЂ™t need to set up any sample looping points to try and extend the length of the note. It could be muted, to shorten the length of the note, but there isnвЂ™t much a musician can do to lengthen it further. Most instruments have a complex relationship controlling the note length, with the musician able to hold notes for considerable amounts of time, while other instruments are more percussive in nature, such as the balafon weвЂ™re using here.Д®ach time a key is struck with the mallet on the balafon, it rings out for a fixed (and quite brief) length of time. In addition to pitch, itвЂ™s important when building a sampling instrument to get the amplitude envelope configured in a realistic-sounding way. We have a greater pitch range than the real instrument, too, by using pitch-shifting to create the missing notes of the chromatic scale.

From this, we can create a sampled balafon with some of the dynamic response of the real thing, with velocity controlling which of the four samples per key is played, as well as at what volume. However, this level of detail takes an incredible amount of time and patience, not to mention skill, from the performer, recordist and sample library coders.ДЇor this sample instrument, weвЂ™ve recorded four samples per key, capturing each of the 16 keys, which are tuned to G#/Ab, B, C#/Db, E and F#/Gb (an E major pentatonic scale, commonly played as a C# minor pentatonic), spread out across three octaves. More recently, hyper-sampled instruments with tens or even hundreds of samples per note are being created, providing incredible detail. While it could be argued that the limitations of the sampler helped to create the character of those instruments, they didnвЂ™t tend to sound all that realistic. In the early days of sampling, when hard-disk space was at a premium, it was standard practice to use as few samples as possible. Similarly, you can use the amplitude envelope to map velocity to level, but this wonвЂ™t give you the variation in tonality that a real instrument gives when it is played heavily or softly. ItвЂ™s possible to create a sample instrument from a single sample, using the built-in pitch-shifting to map a single note out across the whole keyboard, but the further from the source pitch you get, the more synthetic the sampling is going to be. We recorded four velocity layers per key, and have mixed the close and room mics together to create 64 samples to be loaded into Falcon. The instrument was recorded in Metropolis Studio A, with assistance from Liam Nolan, through a stereo pair of Neumann TLM 170 microphones placed about three feet above the balafon and a further spaced pair of Neumann M 49 room mics. WeвЂ™re going to use a sample library weвЂ™ve recorded ourselves to build a sample-based instrument from scratch.ДЇor this sample instrument, weвЂ™re going to use samples of a 16-key Malian balafon, purchased at the Maison des Artisans in Bamako, Mali, while fortunate enough to be visiting the country for the Festival Au DГ©sert back in 2010. Here, weвЂ™re going to delve a little deeper into the instrument. We took a basic look through the features of what is a very deep and powerful workstation, capable of complex synthesis and sampling techniques. Last time, we looked at Pro Tools 2018вЂ™s recently added virtual instrument, the UVI Falcon.

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