I was mucking around in GA5 the other week and was clearly in a library i don’t often go in because i came across a kit that had pads colours and annotated like this:
Turns out there are more of these, as an example check out ‘wassub’ in the instruments library.
I thought what on earth is this? it plays like a VST sample would., but that can;'t be? I investigated up the top of the sample area and found there are 4 ‘base’ samples which have a path …vstsound:\…FC02_Kick808.wav etc. (at particular octave intervals) and then the following pads seem to ‘reference’ these base pads. Sounds like a plan to me.
In another first, if you right click on these companion pads, there is an option "chromatically mapped from C1 sub etc. - ok… does anyone know what this is all about? I dont know how being able to reference pads and pitches really helps me all that much but i can see some benefits here and there, i nonetheless found it interesting,
Here is the really cool part, before i closed it down i realised this is beat agent I’m im, not acoustic agent or something that is locked, So, I went to the first pad containing one of these reference samples, and swapped it with one of my own to see what happened. and it worked, my sample was then automatically pitched up one semitone for an octave, so i did it again, and the next one worked too. So, there you go. If you want to do pitched sample stuff in GA5 do a save as on this instrument and just do the first couple.
