How do i create a custom audio sample library?

xenomachino1 · Post by **xenomachino1** » Mon Oct 25, 2010 1:30 am

after i've been working with a sound for a while, sometimes i want to save it in order to add it to my sample library and use it in other projects. When i simply drag it to the browser it creates an alc file not a proper WAV.

What is the easiest and best way to accomplish this?

so far i get as far as resampling to audio.

thank u!

v00d00ppl · Post by **v00d00ppl** » Mon Oct 25, 2010 2:15 am

are you on mac or pc?

xenomachino1 · Post by **xenomachino1** » Mon Oct 25, 2010 2:22 am

starving student · Post by **starving student** » Mon Oct 25, 2010 4:32 am

starving student · Post by **starving student** » Mon Oct 25, 2010 4:33 am

agent314 · Post by **agent314** » Mon Oct 25, 2010 4:40 am

Try exporting the track the sound file is in?

IP · Post by IP » Mon Oct 25, 2010 9:13 am

classic way = select and export what you want (timeline)

an other way is to

freeze track / goto project folder / find the freeze file into the Samples-Processed-Freeze subfolder / copy it anywhere you want

not recommended because you cant freeze tracks with side-chained fx
and except that you'll have to deal with extra files and need more time to find what you want.

Extra processing may needed if you need just lets say a specific automated part from bar 12 to 15 of a 100-bars clip ...(big pain to find and cut exactly letter on with a wave editor)

so go classic until the abes include a proper single click feature for that

pepezabala · Post by **pepezabala** » Mon Oct 25, 2010 9:20 am

xenomachino1 wrote:after i've been working with a sound for a while, sometimes i want to save it in order to add it to my sample library and use it in other projects. When i simply drag it to the browser it creates an alc file not a proper WAV.

What is the easiest and best way to accomplish this?

so far i get as far as resampling to audio.

thank u!

you can just use the alc-file in other projects.

necho · Post by **necho** » Mon Oct 25, 2010 11:20 am

One of the things I really liked about Studio One is that you can render a selection to audio just by dragging it into your browser.

Wish Live did this (.alc is no good as I usually want to use the sample in another plugin - like Alchemy or Kontakt)

q.musgrove · Post by **q.musgrove** » Mon Oct 25, 2010 10:41 pm

I usually do a "resample-track" using lives audio router section so when I make a sound or audio file I like I resample it to that new track, right click -show in browser, apple or command + "R" to rename the file to something useful, and drag it to wherever you keep your artisson hand made samples.

dave_house · Post by **dave_house** » Mon Nov 01, 2010 3:06 pm

Wish Live did this (.alc is no good as I usually want to use the sample in another plugin - like Alchemy or Kontakt)

AARRGGG!! Totally agree re. ALC's and compatibility. All I want is a freakin' sampler that can timestretch. So I've gone and got myself Kontakt. But you can't drag Live clips directly into the Kontakt VST. So I figure I can record my clip in Live, drag it into the Ableton library, then drag the clip from there into Kontakt. But no! Live won't let you put a clip into the library as a WAV in this way, so Kontakt won't recognise it, so I'm screwed again. I'm defeated at every turn re. this. Jeeez.

fuzzyhead · Post by **fuzzyhead** » Mon Nov 01, 2010 3:20 pm

xenomachino1 wrote:When i simply drag it to the browser it creates an alc file not a proper WAV

Actually it does create the WAV file as well, in the library,check under Samples/Processed/Consolidate.
WAV should be there with the same name as your alc file.

pepezabala · Post by **pepezabala** » Mon Nov 01, 2010 3:31 pm

there are contextmenus that show the audiofile in finder/explorer. Check rightclicking on clips in the browser. also right from the clip itself, click on the the filename in the clip-properties and you are there.
Would be great if Kontakt would read alc, but ...

necho · Post by **necho** » Mon Nov 01, 2010 3:56 pm

pepezabala wrote:Would be great if Kontakt would read alc, but ...

Kontakt will never read .alc.... would be great if Live had drag-and-drop audio rendering!

Guess the easiest way is to point Live's browser at your project/recordings (or freeze) folder so you can just drag the audio files from Live's browser into Kontakt.

dave_house · Post by **dave_house** » Mon Nov 01, 2010 9:44 pm

Actually it does create the WAV file as well, in the library,check under Samples/Processed/Consolidate.

So it does. At risk of diverting the subject of the thread somewhat, all I want to do is timestretch live recordings on the fly so this is a convoluted workflow in a performance setting, although I've just been playing around and it's not totally unusable:

1) have an audio track and a Kontakt track set up and ready to rock in Live
2) record audio into Live
3) drag the clip into a specific folder in the Library, OK the dialog box, wait...
4) select the Kontakt track, browse Library folder for Samples\Recorded
5) drag recording into Kontakt and set root key
6) go crazy on your MIDI keyboard

If anyone has any ideas on how to speed that process up I'd love to hear them.

And please - for the love of god, Ableton, just give us timestretching in Sampler!!

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