Mutli Sample From Ableton To BitBox Micro

[Elonar]

Hi there,

Hope you are all doing well out there. I currently have a host of VST instruments that I am looking to make multisample from to put into the Bit Box Micro. In Ableton, I have recorded a note every 3 semi-tones and have set up. 4 velocity layers. How do I successfully organise these to be able to drag and drop on to an sd card to be plugged into the Bit Box Micro? I currently have one long wav file in Ableton but am wondering about how to name them and organise these for different velocity layers etc. Haven't found any info in the Bit Box Micro manual for this case which I am sure quite a few people are doing to some degree. Any advice or help would be great. I am looking not to use the external BitBox midi option to avoid AD/DA as these instruments are all acoustic based VSTs. I am just prepping samples whilst waiting for BitBox Micro to arrive.

Many thanks for your wisdom and guidance and I am really hoping there is an effective option that doesn't involve shelling out £219 for Sample Robot Cheers!

[Steve]

Sample Robot has an $89 USD version that does everything you need. Or, search the forum as this has been discussed at length. users have shared some free software for this purpose.

I would recommend that you create your sets in 24/48 as that is the DAC in the Micro. While other formats work - they do require more CPU.

Our samplers do not recognize pitch and velocity info from filenames. This data needs to be written inside the wav file to a wavtag (also search for a lengthy discussion on this). You can do this in the Micro, one file at a time, or in Sample Robot or other software, or (hopefully) in Live.

You might consider waiting until your Micro arrives to create sets ON the Micro where all of this is done for you and you don't need additional software. You can easily sample your VSTs. And it's fun.

bitbox micro manual: https://1010music.com/microdocs

[Elonar]

Hi there, is this the version you mean?? https://samplerobot.com/products/samplerobot-korg-wave, Many thanks!

[Steve]

Yes. Looks like it increased by $2. I have that version and it does everything needed except converting the audio to 24/48!

[jpablo91]

There is also MPC beats, which is free

[Thaddeus]

Yes. Looks like it increased by $2. I have that version and it does everything needed except converting the audio to 24/48!

Hello, can you please help me understand if the *.xml export option is sufficient for bitbox micro to “understand” metadata such as root note, note range, velocity range?
Or is there extra work after export?

thank you

[nemoyy]

Just a little side note here on the Bitbox Micro doing all the work for you: it's a super handy function!!!

BUT: all the multisamples I automatically recorded straight into bitbox have a little pause at the beginning.
No big Deal for sounds with a soft attach, but if you sample more percussive material,
you might want to consider editing the files afterwards on your computer.
Audition doesn't seem to mess up the meta data, so i'd give that a try!
It worked brilliantly for that : )

[Thaddeus]

Hi nemoyy,

Thank you for your response.

Yeah I bumped into this issue myself a few weeks back.
That's why I am considering purchasing Samplerobot then importing the samples along with the .xml file into bitbox micro.
I have a lot of stuff I want to multisample and Samplerobot also has offline bounce for plugins.
Before I commit to it though I would like to understand if the .xml is the one that holds all the metadata (root note, key range, velocity range) as i've seen mentions of wavtags, in which case it won't be a solution for me.
Would you happen to know the answer?

[nemoyy]

I thought, all the Info is baked into the metadata of every recorded wav file, rather then a seperate .xml but i'm not a 100% sure…

[Steve]

It is in the wav file metadata. You are correct.

[g.r.u.m]

The root note needs to be embedded in each WAV file.

I use the Rename/Root Key function of the excellent Endless WAV - https://www.kvraudio.com/product/end...-bjoern-bojahr - it's free too!

The multi-samples just need to have the note name or MIDI note number at the end of the filename and all be in the same folder. e.g.

[Steve]

Thank you for sharing this.

[nemoyy]

Hallelujahh!! : )))) I need to try this as soon as possible
Thank you so much for this!

[kattefjaes]

Oh, thank you- having just snagged all the samples from mars, this could be exactly what I need to make a few nice minimal multi-sample sets - be nice to have a small library of them on the SD Card..

[sirshannon]

The cheaper versions of Sample Robot don't export 24/48 samples, only 16bit. That is a dealbreaker.

Does Endless WAV support velocity or just root note?

[Steve]

I agree it is disappointing.