Fading out unwanted sounds in sample

[Chance]

I have a lot of samples in mind to use but when I want to get them theres always a noise that I dont want that is heard along with what I want to sample.

I heard something about filtering but how would I go about doing that on my FanX?

[punch drunk]

where are you sampling from?

if your taking sumthing off vinal.. ur always gunan end up wit other shit in the sample. best bet is to bring it into the computer first, into an audio editing pro gram (pro tools, cool edit, logic, watever) and EQ it. then transfer the file to the fantom via usb

[dboulden]

As punch drunk says, it will be easiest to do in a software editor on a PC/Mac. The best kind of filter to use for this job will be Parametric EQ, which has 3 parameters: Freq, Q, and gain(or cut). What you will be doing is to filter out the exact frequency (or as close as you can get) of the sound you wish to remove.

1) Set the "Q" parameter to somewhere near a halfway value
2) Set the Gain to minimum... so that the selected frequency is cut.
3) Sweep the "Freq" parameter until the sound disappears
4) Now reduce the "Q" setting as far as you can so that the sound still disappears. You may need to slightly nudge the "Freq" parameter up or down as you do this.

This should successfully remove the particular frequency band where the sound you wanted to remove was occuring.

Do bare in my though, that any other sound in the sample that was at the same frequency will also be removed using this method, and it may make your sample sound a bit odd, in which case just fiddle with the parameters until you get a good compromise (like nudging the "gain" level up a bit so that not all of the sound is removed).

HTH

Dave.

http://www.drstudio.demon.co.uk/"Some musicians have a physical block, some have a mental block, while others have a wooden block". Unfortunately, I'm in the 1st category!

[Chance]

My samples are all off of cd players.

So the Fantom doesnt have any knobs or gadgets to bring my sample to the forefront?

I think Amp works, but im not sure. I'll have to try.

[punch drunk]

not that ive come across

im actually pretty dissapointed in the fantom in some aspects.. its an amazing machine, yet it lacks certain basic funtions that are vital.. 4 band eq, "resample"- time-stretching, and a few other mpc functions.

[Artemiy]

punch drunk: hey, but there is a 4-band EQ (with parametric mids), and of course you can timestretch samples in the sample modify menu...


A.

[punch drunk]

^yeah... u can timestretch, but, not the style i'm looking for, im looking to change the pitch in unison with the tempo

and im looking for jus a regular eq, i hate parametrics

[V-CeeOh]

mmm punch drunk is alive after all

OK second shot : You can time stretch in SYNC (guess it's what you mean) with the tempo with the Fantoms.



...just could not afford the 8!