hardware sampler & tempo sync

laura woodswalker · Posted: Fri Dec 31, 2010 8:54 am Post subject: hardware sampler & tempo sync

Hi!

I have a korg microsampler and I have created 2 samples that are 120 bpm. At least that's how they sound to me. However, when I loop them & play them at the same time, they eventually drift out of sync.

Is my timing just off by a few micro seconds?

Is there any solution to this, other than "create them as MIDI loops, play them off Ableton & forget about using audio-based hardware samples?"

Now that I have a korg microsampler, the Voices (various friends) are saying "just switch to Ableton! just switch to Ableton...just switch to...."

It's like an army of Ableton Zombies! Soon everyone will be junking their hardware! Surprised

laura

Antimon · Posted: Fri Dec 31, 2010 10:18 am Post subject:

Sounds like the samples are of slightly different lengths, yes.

Have you tried recording them as part of a sequence instead? I haven't really tried out everything on my unit, but the sequencer sounds like it should be able to handle something like this.

/Stefan

fengland · Joined: Feb 18, 2010 Posts: 50 Location: Burlington, VT

not familiar with the korg, but generally with any hardware sampler you want to trigger you samples with a midi sequence containing 1 long note so the sample is retriggered every measure so they stay in sync. You could also find a way to load them into a computer and open them in an audio editor, make sure they are the exact same length in samples (trimming if necessary) and reloading them into the sampler. Triggering them with a sequence is easier though and more flexible.