Does anybody else remember their time spent sampling CDs for instruments?

[ImmortalA1000]

I was trying to find the exact instrument noise I wanted the other day, turned out to be a bass clarinet not an oboe, and it reminded me how difficult it was trying to find that perfect spot on your CD where you could get a clean sample of just the instrument you wanted. I miss those days wasting hours and days doing fruitless stuff like that. Today it's much simpler, download the album and skip through the audio track in max zoom in a video editor.

I think along with Digi-view scanning for whole afternoons that's where my youth went

[daxb]

Originally Posted by ImmortalA1000

wasting hours and days doing fruitless stuff like that.

Back in the days it doesn't interest but today I would like to know how much time I wasted sampling stuff from CD,Tapes, Radio, TV, Mic on my A500 + TechnoSoundTurbo2 sampler. Around 360 MB in my collection.

Later I used AudioMasterIV on my A1200 + HD but far less then A500 times. However, you become a sampling expert nobody else cares about. At least I used some of the samples with trackers.

Problem was that you need more and more samples because it is boring to use often the same samples and most doesn't fit for the music you are doing. Doom loop.

[ImmortalA1000]

My problem was "ah, that's an unusual lead instrument' and then I wouldn't be able to find it in an isolated section. It always started with an instrument sound for me first.

[A500]

For me it was the A500 and my dad's vinyl collection. Had much fun as it was (and still is) full of many quality records representing many genres, and trying to make them sound coherent together in Protracker made it even more fun!

[ImmortalA1000]

I had a £400-450 1988 Pioneer Hi-fi so I am not sure technically how good the turntable is (still have, it's still next to my Amiga 1000 35 years later).

I had a CD player before an Amiga so I had swapped over to buying CDs I guess. The first sampling I did was with the Microdeal sampler mk1 for my ST but the software sample playback kind of defeated the object

[gimbal]

I didn't do that back in the day. Nowadays I spend that kind of time ripping graphics and sounds/music from games for my own projects It can be kind of zen working with sound data, editing it, normalising it, making sure it loops properly, etc. etc. I imagine it can be a very fun job to be a sound engineer for movies or games.

[jotd]

drums were sometimes doable, because there were parts where the drum was alone in the track

I remember sampling the synth snare from Depeche Mode "World in my eyes" from the long version. It was alone and unprotected

Apart from that, no quality was too horrible and all. But I used that snare a lot (adding a real midi drum in the background to make up for the poor sampling freq)

[TCD]

Didn't use an Amiga, but I sampled a lot of stuff for Fasttracker II. Instrumental versions of songs on 'single' CDs were a gold mine

[ImmortalA1000]

I used to buy a lot of soundtrack albums too.

Today it's so easy...pause the media player, back up 10 seconds, run your screen capture software, hit play, save as audio only file. Bit of clipping in an editor and bang you have a new instrument

[Zak]

I captured a lot of quotations from TV shows and series by connecting the VHS video recorder sound output to my DOS/Windows PC soundcard. But then the harddisk died irreparable and I lost all files. All the years long work for nothing.

[gimbal]

Well, I hope you at least had some fun with it while you were doing it :/

[saimon69]

I remember in 1991 got a tape with samples from a yamaha keyboard, borrowed a simple sampler for parallel port, did sample most of it and used to do a mod, there was a LOT of noise but instruments were interesting

[ImmortalA1000]

And this was the curse for Amiga, the cost of getting stuff into the Amiga at remotely the sort of quality that is possible in the digital age of the 21st century was always a hassle, for sound and video/images.