I'm exploring the idea of making my own electronic drum samples out of combining existing drum samples, as well as some synth textures or sfx or something, into a single .wav and I'm curious if anyone knows any cool dedicated software programs that do this. I tried just doing it as project files in my DAW and saving them to single shot .wavs and found the process and results lacking. I'm curious if there are programs dedicated to this as they might have some cool blending tools or algorithms or reverbs or stretches or other things that you don't really get from just loading them into a DAW and effecting them.

I knew of at least one back some years ago, but I forgot the name or what you call a program dedicated to combining and blending single-shot samples into things.

These would be drum samples for me to use in my own tracks, not sample packs I look to sell, if that's relevant here.

Thank you!

 

Reaper.

 

For complete creativity in sound design not stifled by the limitations incurred by actual samplers that impose their own constraints, I would recommend any decent audio editor (not a DAW necessarily) that has the ability to save to the final format you desire. Eventually if you're going to use the resultant audio files in actual drum or audio samplers you'll need to deal with ADSR at some point. But from your description at this stage of the game it appears you're more concerned with designing raw sounds which is best accomplished with a good audio editor like wavelab, audition, audacity, sound-forge, etc...

 

You can do this with DC Snares. Kick 2, you can load samples by dragging them onto the click "slots". I haven't experimented with Kick 3 yet enough to suggest it, but it stands to reason you can. Cableguys Snapback will do it, but you have to put your samples into a user folder so they are available for use. UVI Drum Replacer (and others like it) is another way. Battery, Tal-Drum should work. Arturia Spark. Melda Mdrummer, if you like their plugins.

You can use Apisonic Speedrum, and it will let you layer multiple user samples onto a single pad. There are so many drum machine/sampler plugins you could use; but your personal preferences will probably end up being the deciding factor which you like to work with.

 

Not the miracle machine you're looking for, but you can edit your one-shots much better.
It's actually better to have individual WAV tracks, so you can fit it into the mix better and change it if necessary.

Togu Audio Line - TAL-Sampler (The plug-in has four layers an can play four samples simultaneous.)
https://tal-software.com/products/tal-sampler

Plugin Alliance - MEGA Sampler (16 fully-routable sample slots)
www.plugin-alliance.com/en/products/mega_sampler.html

 

Hey now, this does look pretty close to what I'm looking for.

Some great suggestions in here, guys, I'll try them out soon. Thank you!

 

I know you asked for a sample editor, which is typically it's own standalone application. But I would go with some plugin based solution instead. I do not see any point in doing offline destructive editing to a file I am going to layer with others, and then also in context with the rest of your mix. You can do that on a DAW audio track, and change any parameter until you decide to commit to it and bounce.

 

Maybe this?

https://www.boomlibrary.com/sound-effects/soundweaver/

 

not sure if you use ableton but in arrangement view yoou could stack your one shots on seperate tracks, arm record said tracks and set up another audio channel to record those channels

 

Even a free sampler like Vember Shortcircuit 1/2 has eight layers. Unfortunately it doesn't have polarity inverter for every layer.

 

Two interesting ones come to mind, Steinberg's Backbone and MNE Oh!Snap. Both offer everything you've asked for, sample layering and manipulation plus some cool tricks, definitely check these out.

 

Most important question no one asked before:

"Which is your DAW"?

In StudioOne you could just use ImpaktXT to layer sounds
In Logic just use DMD

 

R2R did one version of this for windows, and I never saw anyone even mention it. Their pre-release trailer video of it looked nice, and then it was never to be heard from again. Is it even any good? It is 6 meg to download.

 

Especially when you combine drums sounds, make sure the tool can move the waves in sample steps and has a phase inversion, better phase shifting option. Otherwise you can run into trouble.

 

Ableton, click your existing sample and hit control g for group. Drop whatever you please into the rack. If you wanna bounce them turn on an audio track for resampling. Hope no one is advising you to download a plugin or do anything beyond the basics for this.

 

Use your daw sampler, then assign your sounds to the same key so you can trigger all of the them at the same time. Most likely you can change the envolope, pitch, filter, etc, of each sound in the sampler for better merging, if you want further customization of each sound, probably with the sampler you can link every sample to different channels, so you can use fx plugins for each sound independently, an oscilloscope can help you to get things right. Finally, you can glue all the sounds with a compressor, tape, room reverb, in the bus, then record it and you have your sound sandwich.