Sample Library Creation | Exporting SPLIT CLIPS in a single track

[Simeon Amburgey]

Hello everyone,
I have been working on learning how to create my own sample instruments, with my first attempt being a fun project I call, The "PING"!
This is using some of the audio from the Boeing Starliner, where they picked up that crazy sound coming from the capsule which turned out to be some sort of audio misconfigured feedback, but it was enough to capture my imagination.

I have seen a few videos from Venus Theory and Dave Hilowitz (creator of Decent Sampler), that show them using Reaper to record, slice and export their samples but I wondered how I could do this inside of Cakewalk.

Thanks for any assistance, and while you are here, check out my introduction to The "PING"!
(I have since updated it with more effects and GUI, and have a synth layer I am working on)

Joyfully yours,
Simeon

 

Edited September 11 by Simeon Amburgey
Name change for clarification

[rsinger]

2 hours ago, Simeon Amburgey said:

I have seen a few videos from Venus Theory and Dave Hilowitz (creator of Decent Sampler), that show them using Reaper to record, slice and export their samples but I wondered how I could do this inside of Cakewalk.

Personally, I would record with a DAW, apply a denoiser, and export; then use an editor. I have sound forge, but there are free editors available.

[Simeon Amburgey]

I realized that my question might be a little too vague or broad, so how about this.

EXPORTING SPLIT CLIPS IN A TRACK

* RECORD a sequence of notes on an audio track
* SPLIT the resulting longer clip into smaller clips to establish the individual notes. This would probably be done manually, or I think there was a way to have SONAR automatically DETECT SILENCE and then SPLIT the entire clip appropriately.
* EXPORT the individual "split" clips into their own audio file from the SINGLE TRACK

I have tried a few searches but have not discovered any good answers ;^)

Thanks for the help.

Joyfully yours,
Simeon

[mettelus]

That feature I have only seen in wav editors, but others might have more ideas to help you. I use an old copy of Audition for this, and once setting remove silence thresholds it will offload samples as individual files (but you need to rename them).

After saying that, an option for you may be similar... Project->"Save As..." allows saving one file per clip, so that will achieve the offload, but not sure if clip names will save (?), so the renaming process is likely as well.

Best of luck.

[msmcleod]

1. Record your notes in a single audio clip.
2. Process->Apply Effect->Remove Silence

Be mindful of the settings here..  in particular, your hold time HAS to be less than the gap in time between the notes.  If in doubt, make it zero and increase as necessary.

3. Select all the clips in that track
4. File -> Export -> Audio  and choose a source category of "Clips".   Set something like {trackname}{clipindex}  as your filename

 

[Simeon Amburgey]

@msmcleod BRILLIANT!
I think the HOLD TIME was my undoing. Since I am holding notes for a measure at a specific BPM this helps to calculate that offset and, in this case, 200ms worked a treat.

This gives me a great start!

Now if we could only do a regression on the LYRIC VIEW Melisma handling introduced in the SONAR PLATINUM days ;^)
No, seriously, it really needs to be changed back to follow the General MIDI spec, as it is now it is maddening to try and deal with syllables that go across several notes.

Thanks again for the help and the amazing work you have put into our beloved DAW.
Joyfully yours,

Simeon