#LOGIC PRO SAMPLES HOW TO#

The following video demonstrates some of the differences in the sound when you don’t snap to zero crossings, when you don’t match the waveform’s direction, and when you do line everything up.ĭemonstrating how to use loop points on a sample to reduce clicking. You want to set the loop points so that the waveform at the loop end and loop start cross from positive to negative (or negative to positive) through the zero crossing to avoid clicks or other sound artifacts. To do that, you can zoom in on your sound’s waveform and imagine that you’re drawing a line from the end back to the start without an abrupt change in direction. Next, you want to set your loop so that the sound is as continuous as possible. Fortunately, Quick Sampler makes it pretty easy to snap the loop points to zero crossings. This means that you generally want the loop points to hit a point called a “zero crossing” (which is represented by the line). To make the loop sound good, you don’t want clicks or pops when you go from the end to the beginning. If you hold the note down for longer than the sample’s length, then the sampler will loop across this range. The short version of how this works is that the sample plays as long as the note in the piano roll is held down (the longer answer is that the sample follows the amp envelope). Load your sample and set it to “Classic” mode. You can change a quick snappy trumpet note into a long drone or pitch a really low-pitched sax into a high-pitched sax. One of the great features of samplers is making the sample work across all kinds of different pitches and with all kinds of note lengths. If you mouse over the note name here, the icon actually turns into a “Play” button that will audition your sample. For most sounds, the sound will play back as long as the note is held. You can audition your sound with the tiny little play button under your sample, or you can use the piano roll and play the sample back (the default note is C3).

Optimized: Analyze the sound and do a bunch of magic to set the sampler up around the type of sound you loaded in.Great if you want to just play the sound back at different pitches using the piano roll.

Release the button and it’ll give you an option for what to do with the sample: Drag and drop the sample from your filesystem into Logic’s tracks to create a Quick Sampler. Loading Samplesĭrag and drop the sound directly from the Finder into the track header.

#LOGIC PRO SAMPLES UPDATE#

The Quick Sampler was released as part of Logic’s 10.5 update and it’s fast and easy to incorporate samples into your music composition! However, even though the instructions here are specific to Logic, almost all samplers support these concepts. I want to walk you through using a sampler using Logic Pro X’s “Quick Sampler” because it’s, well, quick. As a result, I never really paid much attention to the “simple” sampler where you dropped in a sound file and had it play it back for you. I started doing music after trackers were going out of style but before scripted sampling engines became big. I’ve never really been big into samplers. A sampler loads up recorded audio files and does some basic processing on them so that you can use them as an instrument. What instrument would you use? The answer, of course, is a sampler. Oh, and you also want it to play cool gating effects. Let’s say you need an instrument that will play back recorded effects, slice drum loops into segments, automatically shift the pitches of sound so they’re always in key, and cut out bad “pops” other undesirable parts of a sound.

Logic pro samples