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Hi, I'm just in the process of putting my studio together, and I was wondering what all of you use as your sampling method? Like if you heard something on a CD or a record and wanted to get it into your computer to work with, how do you go about that? I'm not very interested in using a hardware sampler, I'd like to be able to do this on my computer where I can then play with it in Ableton or Reason. Thanks!

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I appreciate the advice, TITBAG!

Audio off of the internet CD or DVD, Soundflower and Live. Everything else, soundcard inputs.

T.V. and Radio.

They are integrated in my studio.

field recording with the zoom H4
internet with soundflower
cds get ripped with itunes
vinyl records get recorded via the motu off the hifi

Something I've always wondered about and not yet tackled is DVDs - just seems like such a massive pain in the arse to get that one bit you want in delicious digital format, i.e. without having to record off the tv speakers or whatever. There's loads of great film material I'd love to sample, it just seems like it'd be a massive pain in the arse.

rozling wrote:Something I've always wondered about and not yet tackled is DVDs - just seems like such a massive pain in the arse to get that one bit you want in delicious digital format, i.e. without having to record off the tv speakers or whatever. There's loads of great film material I'd love to sample, it just seems like it'd be a massive pain in the arse.

you should be able to route the audio internally. On a mac just set the computers audio out to soundflower. In live set the audio in to Soundflower and you can start to record all stuff.

(Remember that sampling off movies might be a pain when you need to clear copyright to publish your stuff.)

rozling wrote:Something I've always wondered about and not yet tackled is DVDs - just seems like such a massive pain in the arse to get that one bit you want in delicious digital format, i.e. without having to record off the tv speakers or whatever. There's loads of great film material I'd love to sample, it just seems like it'd be a massive pain in the arse.

there are plenty of software recorders which record anything your soundcard is playing with 1 button push.. hello?

On windows I'm afraid - I've looked into Jack for Windows but from memory I don't think it's user-friendly. I suppose it's just a matter of just patching the output cables straight back in and recording off that, just seems a bit long-winded.

Can't Google do it for me?

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rozling wrote:Something I've always wondered about and not yet tackled is DVDs - just seems like such a massive pain in the arse to get that one bit you want in delicious digital format, i.e. without having to record off the tv speakers or whatever. There's loads of great film material I'd love to sample, it just seems like it'd be a massive pain in the arse.

there are plenty of software recorders which record anything your soundcard is playing with 1 button push.. hello?

Hello! Any you recommend?

total recorder

That looks quite good actually - nice one!

rozling wrote:Something I've always wondered about and not yet tackled is DVDs - just seems like such a massive pain in the arse to get that one bit you want in delicious digital format, i.e. without having to record off the tv speakers or whatever. There's loads of great film material I'd love to sample, it just seems like it'd be a massive pain in the arse.

Not really. Get DVD Decrypter (it's open source). Load your DVD and hit Decrypt ISO. Once you get your VOB files use DGIndex (Open Source) to 'Demux Audio to WAV'. Alternatively you can download VirtualDubMod (a modified version of Virtual Dub) to open the VOB file directly and Demux audio.

Really, it will take you an hour to fully understand the process assuming you have zero knowledge of mpeg-2. Plus, the applications I suggest can give you the full 48K assuming your audio card is capable.

spkey wrote:... assuming you have zero knowledge of mpeg-2.

That's a safe assumption! Sweet, I'll have a play with that as well, thanks.