Advanced Instruments 5 hours 280 XP on completion

Sampler & Slicer

Turning any sound into an instrument.

Recording, mapping, chopping and mangling your own material. The fastest route to a sound nobody else has.

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Expert

1. Sampling

5 lessons

Capture and map.

○ Recording your own samples Reading 12 min ○ Trimming, normalising and looping a sample Reading 12 min ○ Mapping across a keyboard Reading 13 min ○ Root note, tuning and playback speed Reading 12 min ○ Envelopes on a sampled instrument Reading 12 min

2. Slicing

4 lessons

Breaking a loop apart.

○ Transient detection and slice points Reading 13 min ○ Re-sequencing slices Reading 12 min ○ Stutter, roll and glitch techniques Reading 13 min ○ Time-stretch and pitch-shift artefacts as an effect Reading 12 min

3. Resampling

4 lessons

The producer secret weapon.

○ Bouncing your own output and reusing it Reading 13 min ○ Building a sound in layers of resampling Reading 13 min ○ Build an instrument from a household object Studio 35 min ○ Sampler final Quiz 10 min

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