Recording and Using Drum Samples

Cubase
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Hi All,

I use Cubase 5 essentials and I am interested in creating drum samples from my own acoustic drum set. I should have no trouble recording a variety of drum sounds and mixing them down into wave files, but once I have done this, how can I load those sounds into a samapler so that I play them using a midi program. I know that cubase 5 essentials comes with halion for a sampler. Do I need any 3rd party software/vst plugins to accomplish what I want to do?

Thanks,
Dan

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Since HalionOne is only a sample player, you´ll need a sampler VSTi.

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Any recommendations? preferably free VSTi.

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Have a look at http://www.kvraudio.com/. I’ve found some fantastic free VSTis there over the years.

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Should I know your OS…?

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My OS is Vista 64bit

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Also, a question about halionOne… What is the difference between an sampler and a sample player? Doesn’t Halion one simple receive a midi message and play a corresponding sample? Is there any reason I could not create a preset with halionOne loaded with the .wav files from my drum kit? I have to assume that somewhere in the cubase program files is a folder containing a multitude of .wav files from which the halionOne plugin plays its samples… What is stopping me from dropping some of my drum samples into that folder?

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What is stopping you, is the fact, that it´s not a folder with single samples in it, but a proprietary format, in which all samples are embedded.
And the sample player plays preconfigured samples (banks), while a full blown sampler let´s you map, load, modulate… your own samples and create banks. (Of course these definitions are not the “complete truth”, bnut that´s basically how the terms are usually used.)
Yellowtools → independence is a free one, and there´s at least one more, which I can´t remember the name at the moment.

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Hi,

I use the VST “Super Drum FX” (www.superdrumfx.com) in combination with Yamaha´s DTXplorer.
You have 10 slots for taking your wav-samples and triggering them e.g. with your e-drums.
Built in EQ, pitch, MIDI-Numbers and much more for each sampling slot…
A few good sound samples for the start also can be found on the webpage.

(That´s the way I will use my own samples from my Sonor Force 3000 and Mapex Maple PRO M.)

Hint: copy the installation files to C:\sdfx and add this directory to your Plugin-folder list in Cubase.
Re-scan or restart Cubase and there it is!

Good luck!