Redmatica.com's Autosampler

Hello all, I recently purchased exsmanager from Redmatica.com which cuts down load time and organizes exs files and works great. Does anyone own Autosampler which can sample a hardware synth(like my motif which I don't use very often), and convert the patches to exs format for convenience. I want to know if the patches come out sounding like they do in the motif. Thanks.

g5 2.3ghz, Mac OS X (10.4.8)

Posted on Feb 5, 2007 2:15 PM

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Feb 5, 2007 6:16 PM in response to logicdude

I have used it a bunch. It really is a stunning piece of software. My JD-800 is now a pull down menu away. Killer. With a couple caveats. Every synth has a noise floor. No matter how many notes you play, you get the same noise floor, usually not a problem, but it's there. But if you sample each note of your patch, then you multiply the noise floor by the number of notes you are playing at any given time. Gonna grab a cmin7 in the 2nd inversion? That's 4 noise floors, please. That hiss and noise can build up to unuseable with some patches, if you play more than a couple of notes at the same time. But the software absolutely works as advertised. It's not a quick process, but it is unattended, happening all by itself in the background, from the synth to a mapped EXS patch. Also, to accurately grab a patch or two could wind up taking several gigabytes of space, even if you only sample every third note at only 4 velocity levels, as opposed to every note and 16 levels of velocity, which is possible, and would give the best results (now that would be a huge file for one patch). Also, anything that would be a dynamic, changing component of the patch, be it chorus, flange, ADSR, LFO's etc will be captured in whatever state they were in at the time, and won't work exactly as the synth did. If there was only one LFO modifying the cutoff filter, now there is an LFO for every note sampled, and they will all be moving independently. Not a deal breaker, just different than the original. Having said all that, I REALLY dig it. Very happy I have it.

Feb 10, 2007 8:07 AM in response to logicdude

I have used Redmatica and have sampled the Motif and Fantom. It was my first go round and only sampled about every for notes and the files are useable however, not all are just like the keyboards. If you have not started using it yet, make sure that you gather multiple layers and some patches need every key sampled.

Good Luck

What boads do you have to sample? Maybe we can trade some sounds?

Feb 10, 2007 8:22 AM in response to logicdude

I have used Redmatica and have sampled the Motif and Fantom. It was my first go round and only sampled about every for notes and the files are useable however, not all are just like the keyboards. If you have not started using it yet, make sure that you gather multiple layers and some patches need every key sampled.

Good Luck

What boads do you have to sample? Maybe we can trade some sounds?

Feb 10, 2007 8:25 AM in response to logicdude

I have used Redmatica and have sampled the Motif and Fantom. It was my first go round and only sampled about every for notes and the files are useable however, not all are just like the keyboards. If you have not started using it yet, make sure that you gather multiple layers and some patches need every key sampled.

Good Luck

What boads do you have to sample? Maybe we can trade some sounds?

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