the blackbox does a pretty good job of multisampling, & I spent a couple of weekends ripping through the library from my old prophet 2002 sampler.
having exhausted myself trying to get the original files off the machine & do it as digits, I just set an appropriate interval & duration & set the BB going.
brilliant.
BUT I already have thousands of multisample sets, with all kinds of naming conventions & whatnot, & very few of them with anything meaningful in the tags.
googling "edit wav tag root note" brings you almost straight away to this very forum.
a bit more reading, & it emerges that there is no clear standard in wide use for the root note of a piece of audio.
I watched a video about using an mp3 tagging tool on wavs, & while it's quite advanced, it proved impossible to define the right sort of tag based on trying to reverse engineer samples from the BB's own multisample sets.
so... back here, more digging.
a few YEARS ago, forum member Mfactory brought the subject up in a thread entitled " Summary of Multi sampling options (including velocity layers)"
this was more concerned with getting the BB to honour velocity entries in the wav metadata, so that realistic kits could be assembled. what caught my eye though was this linked software which allows you to enter the right root note tags manually or by parsing the file-names in a number of clever ways.
it works a treat.
I wanted to pay for it, it works so well. going back there now to see if he has a donate button.
for my purposes, where I'm loading lots of non-looped instrument sounds & I'm not too bothered about velocity, it's perfect.
BUT if we're going to help this developer or anyone else to come up with a tool for offline preparation & editing of sample metadata with a view to using it in a BB workflow,
we NEED 1010's developers to share details of the metadata structure.
imagine being able to prepare pre-existing sample libraries for the BB, or editing its own work!
but for now, root notes. this is the chap: www.bjoernjahr.de/endlesswav.html
having exhausted myself trying to get the original files off the machine & do it as digits, I just set an appropriate interval & duration & set the BB going.
brilliant.
BUT I already have thousands of multisample sets, with all kinds of naming conventions & whatnot, & very few of them with anything meaningful in the tags.
googling "edit wav tag root note" brings you almost straight away to this very forum.
a bit more reading, & it emerges that there is no clear standard in wide use for the root note of a piece of audio.
I watched a video about using an mp3 tagging tool on wavs, & while it's quite advanced, it proved impossible to define the right sort of tag based on trying to reverse engineer samples from the BB's own multisample sets.
so... back here, more digging.
a few YEARS ago, forum member Mfactory brought the subject up in a thread entitled " Summary of Multi sampling options (including velocity layers)"
this was more concerned with getting the BB to honour velocity entries in the wav metadata, so that realistic kits could be assembled. what caught my eye though was this linked software which allows you to enter the right root note tags manually or by parsing the file-names in a number of clever ways.
it works a treat.
I wanted to pay for it, it works so well. going back there now to see if he has a donate button.
for my purposes, where I'm loading lots of non-looped instrument sounds & I'm not too bothered about velocity, it's perfect.
BUT if we're going to help this developer or anyone else to come up with a tool for offline preparation & editing of sample metadata with a view to using it in a BB workflow,
we NEED 1010's developers to share details of the metadata structure.
imagine being able to prepare pre-existing sample libraries for the BB, or editing its own work!
but for now, root notes. this is the chap: www.bjoernjahr.de/endlesswav.html
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