Impacts,<\/a> risers,<\/a> sweeps,<\/a> drum hits<\/a>\u2014these are all great sounds that sometimes end up lost on your hard drive. We can use folders, Collections,<\/a> apps, and plugins to keep things organized, but one of the best ways to make your go-to sounds not only easier to find but much more musical to use is to make a sampler instrument that’s customized to your needs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In the video above, expert film composer and educator Dave Kropf<\/a> joined us on the Splice YouTube channel<\/a> to walk through how to make a sampler instrument from scratch, tips for optimizing them for use, and more. Watch along to hear his insights in action and read highlights below\u2014you can use the table of contents to quickly navigate to a specific section.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Let’s dive in!<\/p>\n\n\n\n Bring Splice directly into your DAW with the Sounds Plugin (beta).<\/strong><\/a> Audition millions of samples, explore our latest search tools, and instantly create variations of any Splice sample.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n A sampler instrument<\/strong> is a software (or hardware) instrument that plays back recorded audio samples, triggered by MIDI notes.<\/a> Instead of synthesizing sound from scratch, it maps pre-recorded audio (drum hits, instrument recordings, sound effects, etc.) across a keyboard so that you can play, sequence, and manipulate those sounds the same way you would with any other instrument in your DAW.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n To make a sampler instrument, create a new software instrument instance and assign your DAW’s sampler. Kropf uses Sampler (Multi-Sample),<\/a><\/strong> which is Logic Pro’s built-in sampler, but the general processes he overviews can be applied to the stock samplers of any DAW. There are also third-party options like Native Instruments’ Battery and Kontakt.<\/p>\n\n\n\nWhat you’ll learn:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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