Fantom G sounds unlimited (Resampler)
10 Jun 2009, 14:36Hi folks,
normally I don’t post here anymore, but what I experienced here at home since some days might be of some importance to many G users hoping for new sounds in their Fantom G:
After buying Nexoe’s Resampler and getting into it quite fast I have been experiencing a kind of sound revolution on my Fantom G. I have never been a sampling specialist, just knowing and using some basics, but this time it really got me going!
Imagine: Resampler is a sampling tool which allows you to resample complete sound patches ready for Fantom G use from
- any VSTi you use in your favorite sequencers (there are many hundred out there, many of them being class acts rebuilding classical analog gear to quite a high degree of perfection, or offering new ways of synthesis, whatever you like)
- any midified electronic keyboard (synths, samplers etc.)
Now the real deal is that you don’t have to go the normal long and hard way from a sound you like to having it on your G. In Resampler you set up the basic settings in a graphical interface for
a) velocity ranges (1 up to 4),
b) sample lengths (variable curve over the keyboard from longer samples for lower notes to shorter ones for higher)
c) keyranges (from whole keyboard over group ranges to single samples for each key in any way you want)
and there you go:
You load your VSTi (or a VU meter for midi connected external gear) into one of up to four parallel(!) VSTi/input slots (so any chance for any kind of layer sounds), and if you like, you add VST effects into the two available effect slots.
With one mouse click you decide if you want Resampler to do automatic
a) looping
b) crossfading
c) normalizing
d) output into Yase Prg format
Then Resampler triggers note by note or group by group for all chosen velocities and saves the result. With the help of Yase you then only have to import the result and write it as Multisample patch to your G USB stick, to a free slot in your G user patch library. After that you can use the sound like all internal Fantom G sounds.
I’m just having a terrific time bulding up my favourite sound pool with unlimited sound possibilities: a first class VSTi mellotron sound here, my favorite warn analog patches from my Moog LP there (and after importing them to the G I can’t tweak them like on the Moog, but have the advantage of having them polyphonic!). A famous VA sound from my Oberheim OBXa VSTi here (ranging from Lyle Mays pads to Van Halens Jump sound), a SRX-12 Clavinet sound there (the whole missing SRX sounds library is available again that way!). A VSTi Jupi-ter 8 sound here, a VSTi Hammond B3 sound there.
Since you have the choice to sample with effects or without, you can use dry sounds and add Fantom G effects to them, or profit from effects being already part of the sampled sound (and giving you your Fantom G PFX as sweet additional choice instead of hard to decide priority).
The best of all is the time factor gained by the automatic functions of Resampler:
- for the casual one layer / 12 zones synth VSTi patch I need about 10 Minutes to get it ready to the G.
- for a full 4 layer / single keys patch, like I resampled it to get a top class Wurlitzer for the first time on the G, I needed the longest time so far, due to the many necessary long one-shots: about one or two hours (don’t remember exactly because I did other things while Resampler was doing the job for me).
- in a few cases it was good to reloop samples within Yase to correct the rare instances of suboptimal looping. But nearly all of the loops worked as desired right after auto-matic sampling.
- I had very few program crashes in an otherwise already very stable program version 1.01. So from my view there is not much critical to remark about the program after some days of use.
Result: I have begun to resample all kinds of sounds and port them over to the G, whenever I like, and in no time, compared to normal sampling and multisample patch building processes.
I now use many of my favorite sounds from all corners directly on the G!!!
And before anybody gets me wrong: no, I am not in any way connected to Nexoe, I just enjoy their two programs a lot, because these programs make the G much more of a dream machine to me.
normally I don’t post here anymore, but what I experienced here at home since some days might be of some importance to many G users hoping for new sounds in their Fantom G:
After buying Nexoe’s Resampler and getting into it quite fast I have been experiencing a kind of sound revolution on my Fantom G. I have never been a sampling specialist, just knowing and using some basics, but this time it really got me going!
Imagine: Resampler is a sampling tool which allows you to resample complete sound patches ready for Fantom G use from
- any VSTi you use in your favorite sequencers (there are many hundred out there, many of them being class acts rebuilding classical analog gear to quite a high degree of perfection, or offering new ways of synthesis, whatever you like)
- any midified electronic keyboard (synths, samplers etc.)
Now the real deal is that you don’t have to go the normal long and hard way from a sound you like to having it on your G. In Resampler you set up the basic settings in a graphical interface for
a) velocity ranges (1 up to 4),
b) sample lengths (variable curve over the keyboard from longer samples for lower notes to shorter ones for higher)
c) keyranges (from whole keyboard over group ranges to single samples for each key in any way you want)
and there you go:
You load your VSTi (or a VU meter for midi connected external gear) into one of up to four parallel(!) VSTi/input slots (so any chance for any kind of layer sounds), and if you like, you add VST effects into the two available effect slots.
With one mouse click you decide if you want Resampler to do automatic
a) looping
b) crossfading
c) normalizing
d) output into Yase Prg format
Then Resampler triggers note by note or group by group for all chosen velocities and saves the result. With the help of Yase you then only have to import the result and write it as Multisample patch to your G USB stick, to a free slot in your G user patch library. After that you can use the sound like all internal Fantom G sounds.
I’m just having a terrific time bulding up my favourite sound pool with unlimited sound possibilities: a first class VSTi mellotron sound here, my favorite warn analog patches from my Moog LP there (and after importing them to the G I can’t tweak them like on the Moog, but have the advantage of having them polyphonic!). A famous VA sound from my Oberheim OBXa VSTi here (ranging from Lyle Mays pads to Van Halens Jump sound), a SRX-12 Clavinet sound there (the whole missing SRX sounds library is available again that way!). A VSTi Jupi-ter 8 sound here, a VSTi Hammond B3 sound there.
Since you have the choice to sample with effects or without, you can use dry sounds and add Fantom G effects to them, or profit from effects being already part of the sampled sound (and giving you your Fantom G PFX as sweet additional choice instead of hard to decide priority).
The best of all is the time factor gained by the automatic functions of Resampler:
- for the casual one layer / 12 zones synth VSTi patch I need about 10 Minutes to get it ready to the G.
- for a full 4 layer / single keys patch, like I resampled it to get a top class Wurlitzer for the first time on the G, I needed the longest time so far, due to the many necessary long one-shots: about one or two hours (don’t remember exactly because I did other things while Resampler was doing the job for me).
- in a few cases it was good to reloop samples within Yase to correct the rare instances of suboptimal looping. But nearly all of the loops worked as desired right after auto-matic sampling.
- I had very few program crashes in an otherwise already very stable program version 1.01. So from my view there is not much critical to remark about the program after some days of use.
Result: I have begun to resample all kinds of sounds and port them over to the G, whenever I like, and in no time, compared to normal sampling and multisample patch building processes.
I now use many of my favorite sounds from all corners directly on the G!!!
And before anybody gets me wrong: no, I am not in any way connected to Nexoe, I just enjoy their two programs a lot, because these programs make the G much more of a dream machine to me.
