Vocal Sampling Setup

[SvenArvidTadhg]

I'm running Logic 9, and was looking for a while at getting one of those cheap little keyboards with the bad speakers cheesy beats that are just fun and the ability to record your singing a note, and continue it as long as the key is held down.

 

And then I remembered that I have Logic (and Mainstage for live scenarios).

 

Can anyone help me out with how to record myself singing just one note, and have it hooked up to a sampler or keyboard setup so I can use my MIDI keyboard to trigger held notes of my voice? I've been searching all around and not finding anything.

 

Thanks in advance.

Sven

[David Nahmani]

Record your voice onto an audio track, then select the audio region and choose Audio > Region to New Sampler Track.

 

Then if you want you can tweak the EXS24 instrument so that the sample loops (if you wanted the ability to hold the note longer than you actually sang it). Let us know if you need help with that.

[SvenArvidTadhg]

Okay so I got it sort of figured out, but I have a couple questions:

 

1) is there any easy way to loop it and have it sound consistent? I imagine with a very small bit of recording it would sound consistent, but I want to start each note with a different consonant, which means the beginning (when I press each note) would have to be different than the loop.

 

and 2) is there a more convenient way to do this? Right now, the only way the samples work is if they're record-enabled on the Logic tracks and that just seems ridiculous, as ideally, I would want to have a voice mapped to each note, and then be able to use a second keyboard to have the "keys" sound and the MIDI with the sung notes.

[SvenArvidTadhg]

Bumping because I'm still not sure how to set it up so that it does a good loop, or how to set it up so it saves to the sampler automatically.

 

Thanks.

Sven

[David Nahmani]

1) is there any easy way to loop it and have it sound consistent? I imagine with a very small bit of recording it would sound consistent, but I want to start each note with a different consonant, which means the beginning (when I press each note) would have to be different than the loop.

Yes. Find the zone in the instrument editor and select the "loop" option. Then double-click that zone's sample name to open it in the sample editor. There you can select a section that loops smoothly, and use Edit > Selection to Loop (or something like that).

 

2) is there a more convenient way to do this? Right now, the only way the samples work is if they're record-enabled on the Logic tracks and that just seems ridiculous, as ideally, I would want to have a voice mapped to each note, and then be able to use a second keyboard to have the "keys" sound and the MIDI with the sung notes.

 

I'm not sure I understand that part? If you want more than one sample in a sampler instrument, just select them all, then choose Audio > Convert Regions to New Sampler Track, so you have only one rec-armed software instrument track with all your samples... does that help?