Beat Maker 3 - Setting Up..NEW Sample Import From AudioShare Video Just Added

thesoundtestroom

Here is my first video demo for BM3, so nothing mega just a basic start up guide and a little bit multi tracking with frums, bass and an AUv3 and a tiny bit of sample editing.

gonekrazy3000

Fantastic video as usual

thesoundtestroom

@5pinlink said:
Great stuff, these question are being asked a lot, this should help a bunch of folks.

I hope some people find it helpful, I'm not really a big sampler, but I will go on to show that BM3 can also be used for more standard type recording, so that help to convince some people who may think it's just for making beats and slicing etc etc, it's actually a really clever DAW all round

cian

@5pinlink said:
If you want any help creating sampling tutorials let me know, i have created a ton of video tutorials for desktop apps, audio and GFX and my passion is sampling
So i can give you a ton of pointers when it comes to the sampling side.

Alternatively you could create some sampling tutorials yourself. I'm sure they'd be very popular.

hazardtears

great video, thanks!

thesoundtestroom

@5pinlink said:
If you want any help creating sampling tutorials let me know, i have created a ton of video tutorials for desktop apps, audio and GFX and my passion is sampling
So i can give you a ton of pointers when it comes to the sampling side.

You should definitely make some of those videos they would very cool, I can sample, I'm just not an expert because it's not something I particularly like to do, I'm lazy and just want to play it in and go and have a sleep

Michael_R_Grant

Doug, you can swipe up and down on the tempo to increase it in increments of 1. Also, when you were trying to increase the volume of the piano sample, you missed the gain control on the sample screen!

thesoundtestroom

@Michael_R_Grant said:
Doug, you can swipe up and down on the tempo to increase it in increments of 1. Also, when you were trying to increase the volume of the piano sample, you missed the gain control on the sample screen!

Thanks Michael, top tip on the tempo, and also brilliant on the missed gain, I hadn't even seen that, I just went back in now, boosted the gain a touch and perfect, also wish I had tweaked the sends as well

8BitSamurai

@5pinlink said:
If you want any help creating sampling tutorials let me know, i have created a ton of video tutorials for desktop apps, audio and GFX and my passion is sampling
So i can give you a ton of pointers when it comes to the sampling side.

Yes please! Videos are really the best way I learn.

[Deleted User]

Thanks for your friendly and informative getting started video Doug. Now I feel better before I dive in

JohnnyGoodyear

Think this is a fertile field Sir Doug (at least for the next few weeks ).

JohnnyGoodyear

BTW Sir Doug. Just watched through this and REALLY WISHED I had before I even touched anything. Really what TSTR does best; a quick, honest and simple intro to cut through all the buttons and get you going. The beans are very cool in this one....thanks so much.

thesoundtestroom

@JohnnyGoodyear said:
BTW Sir Doug. Just watched through this and REALLY WISHED I had before I even touched anything. Really what TSTR does best; a quick, honest and simple intro to cut through all the buttons and get you going. The beans are very cool in this one....thanks so much.

Thanks Lord Johnny

thesoundtestroom

@5pinlink said:

@thesoundtestroom said:

@5pinlink said:
If you want any help creating sampling tutorials let me know, i have created a ton of video tutorials for desktop apps, audio and GFX and my passion is sampling
So i can give you a ton of pointers when it comes to the sampling side.

You should definitely make some of those videos they would very cool, I can sample, I'm just not an expert because it's not something I particularly like to do, I'm lazy and just want to play it in and go and have a sleep

I have no issues making them, just don't really want to step on your toes, you are THE video guy on IOS, wait, i just checked your twitter and it says Cornwall, that is no Cornish accent hahahaha (I'm in Devon )

I'm originally from Liverpool, we need lots more people making iOS demos, compared to the amount people making VST demos it's tiny

AudioGus

Thanks so much for the video Doug! Excellent as always. I never got into Ableton and wasn't sure if I needed to grock/like/incorporate 'scenes' at all into the workflow and they were creating a bit of a mental snag for me. Glad to hear I can just avoid it and save some time today.

ExAsperis99

Doug, I won't say anything that hasn't already been said, but let me toss my quarters into the hat. Excellent demystification of the app! Kind of reminds me of the first time I was in a studio, and I sort of freaked out looking at all the knobs and dials. A cool slightly older engineer took pity on me and explained that once I understood the knobs and dials on one channel, I knew the whole board, and there was nothing to worry about. So thank you.

ExAsperis99

@5pinlink said:
If you want any help creating sampling tutorials let me know, i have created a ton of video tutorials for desktop apps, audio and GFX and my passion is sampling
So i can give you a ton of pointers when it comes to the sampling side.

Please consider me as a humble acolyte. Not kidding. I'd pay for good sampling tutorials if you ever were inclined to go to the Patreon route.

gonekrazy3000

@5pinlink said:

@ExAsperis99 said:

@5pinlink said:
If you want any help creating sampling tutorials let me know, i have created a ton of video tutorials for desktop apps, audio and GFX and my passion is sampling
So i can give you a ton of pointers when it comes to the sampling side.

Please consider me as a humble acolyte. Not kidding. I'd pay for good sampling tutorials if you ever were inclined to go to the Patreon route.

What do you want to know ?

Everything.

ExAsperis99

@5pinlink said:

@ExAsperis99 said:

@5pinlink said:
If you want any help creating sampling tutorials let me know, i have created a ton of video tutorials for desktop apps, audio and GFX and my passion is sampling
So i can give you a ton of pointers when it comes to the sampling side.

Please consider me as a humble acolyte. Not kidding. I'd pay for good sampling tutorials if you ever were inclined to go to the Patreon route.

What do you want to know ?

I kind of want a Best Practices overview, from sampling an audio track through trimming efficiently to file management.

But to be specific.

Let's say there's a track I have. Begins with an orchestral swell, then moves into a rhythmic section.

I want to do two things.

• I want to grab the orchestral swell, which is one bar long. I want to have this duplicated on various pad/keys at different pitches but at the same tempo. I can then play this as a shifting chord pattern.

• The second section I want to grab a loop and slice to pads. It's already at the same tempo, but since I don't know what I'm using it with, I'd like to hold the option to easily change the pitch of all the pads in this bank.

Not sure what the best process is. Should I grab the sample, trim to just the orchestral swell, and work on that alone? Then reimport the sample, trim the loop I want, and go from there? Am I creating all kinds of double work for myself? Should I trim these in Twisted Wave or something first?

Thanks.

stormywaterz

@ExAsperis99 said:
Doug, I won't say anything that hasn't already been said, but let me toss my quarters into the hat. Excellent demystification of the app! Kind of reminds me of the first time I was in a studio, and I sort of freaked out looking at all the knobs and dials. A cool slightly older engineer took pity on me and explained that once I understood the knobs and dials on one channel, I knew the whole board, and there was nothing to worry about. So thank you.

This is good knowledge. Learn the knobs and responsibilities and the rest works it's way out.

ExAsperis99

@5pinlink said:
Personally i dislike single file marker accessing, i would never ever use Beatmakers slice option for instance, it is a half way house solution designed to be non destructive and save resources, i have no interest in being non destructive or saving resources, i want the best way not the easiest way.
So for me i am always going to take the content and destructively edit to get the exact hits/loops i want.
In your case i would edit out the swell, then i would edit out the rhythm section and have two distinct files.
Personally i would do this on a desktop because the mouse is king for sample editing and getting perfect hits/loops, but i like accuracy and speed.

The problems caused by using a single file and then accessing it via markers (BM3 slice mode) soon build up, a perfect example is the "Where are my fades" issue people seem to be having, if it is individual slices on pads and not a single file, you just select the slice and add a destructive fade whenever you like, i shall just reverse this slice, i shall just pitch this slice, i shall just duplicate this slice, reverse it, cut a piece out of the start and add a fade in, now i have a turntable drag back of said slice.
So you can see why i always create individual files for each sample, screw markers and screw a few resources.
Add to this the fact that while you do this and save, you build up a massive library of single hits that you can use to create completely new stuff.

So personally the way i would do your editing is edit out the swell, edit out the rhythm loop, now slice the rhythm loop in to individual hits, put them on their own pads, then from there i can listen to what i have and decide if i want to tune them all or create reverses or even layer in some stuff on the hits, al the while saving it out for future use too.

Resampling is also something that a lot of people forget, the entire DnB scene is built on resampling, I actually know a DnB artist who sampled a saw wave twenty years ago, and that exact saw wave has not only been resampled/mapped in every single bassline he has ever created, but it has been in 1000s of other peoples basslines too, layered/detuned/filtered, resample and assign to a key for replaying, it is the cornerstone of Reese and Neuro.

Moral is to never be scared to create double work creating extra edits from the same sample, as long as you save them, they will be used again again again again.

Running out with family obligations, so before I say a long, thorough thank you, let me just highlight a sentence that makes me love music and musicians.

I actually know a DnB artist who sampled a saw wave twenty years ago, and that exact saw wave has not only been resampled/mapped in every single bassline he has ever created, but it has been in 1000s of other peoples basslines too,

RajahP

@thesoundtestroom said:
Here is my first video demo for BM3, so nothing mega just a basic start up guide and a little bit multi tracking with frums, bass and an AUv3 and a tiny bit of sample editing.

Thanks for this tutorial Doug... It helped a lot..

@Michael_R_Grant said:
Doug, you can swipe up and down on the tempo to increase it in increments of 1. Also, when you were trying to increase the volume of the piano sample, you missed the gain control on the sample screen!

You can also double-tap on 'BPM' to type in setting..

thesoundtestroom

Hi guys, just did a nice and quick demo video for the BPM tips you guys pointed out here.

Theres no way I'm starting another BM3 thread

[Deleted User]

@JohnnyGoodyear said:
BTW Sir Doug. Just watched through this and REALLY WISHED I had before I even touched anything. Really what TSTR does best; a quick, honest and simple intro to cut through all the buttons and get you going. The beans are very cool in this one....thanks so much.

Couldn't agree more Lord Johnny. As usual Doug is filling the gaps left by the dev's official vids - which actually put me off the thing. In contrast, Sir Doug has got me thinking this would sit nicely between my iPad and desktop stuff as a good way to get iOS audio bits and pieces into shape, before shipping it off to the desktop for further fiddling.

If I do raid pennies from the gas bill jar then I'll make sure to click the link from Doug's page first.

Just don't tell Mrs Monzo.

thesoundtestroom

@MonzoPro said:

@JohnnyGoodyear said:
BTW Sir Doug. Just watched through this and REALLY WISHED I had before I even touched anything. Really what TSTR does best; a quick, honest and simple intro to cut through all the buttons and get you going. The beans are very cool in this one....thanks so much.

Couldn't agree more Lord Johnny. As usual Doug is filling the gaps left by the dev's official vids - which actually put me off the thing. In contrast, Sir Doug has got me thinking this would sit nicely between my iPad and desktop stuff as a good way to get iOS audio bits and pieces into shape, before shipping it off to the desktop for further fiddling.

If I do raid pennies from the gas bill jar then I'll make sure to click the link from Doug's page first.

Just don't tell Mrs Monzo.

@MonzoPro thanks Dr Monzo, you may like my next BM3 tutorial that will be out shortly, about importing your own samples from Audioshare, making a new sample and building a brand new Pad Bank, deleting unwanted samples and folder management

[Deleted User]

@thesoundtestroom said:

@MonzoPro said:

@JohnnyGoodyear said:
BTW Sir Doug. Just watched through this and REALLY WISHED I had before I even touched anything. Really what TSTR does best; a quick, honest and simple intro to cut through all the buttons and get you going. The beans are very cool in this one....thanks so much.

Couldn't agree more Lord Johnny. As usual Doug is filling the gaps left by the dev's official vids - which actually put me off the thing. In contrast, Sir Doug has got me thinking this would sit nicely between my iPad and desktop stuff as a good way to get iOS audio bits and pieces into shape, before shipping it off to the desktop for further fiddling.

If I do raid pennies from the gas bill jar then I'll make sure to click the link from Doug's page first.

Just don't tell Mrs Monzo.

@MonzoPro thanks Dr Monzo, you may like my next BM3 tutorial that will be out shortly, about importing your own samples from Audioshare, making a new sample and building a brand new Pad Bank, deleting unwanted samples and folder management

Sounds good - Audioshare is my go-to library, and this is definitely something I'd be using BM3 for. Looking forward to the vid, could be the shove that knocks me off the fence...

thesoundtestroom

@MonzoPro said:

@thesoundtestroom said:

@MonzoPro said:

@JohnnyGoodyear said:
BTW Sir Doug. Just watched through this and REALLY WISHED I had before I even touched anything. Really what TSTR does best; a quick, honest and simple intro to cut through all the buttons and get you going. The beans are very cool in this one....thanks so much.

Couldn't agree more Lord Johnny. As usual Doug is filling the gaps left by the dev's official vids - which actually put me off the thing. In contrast, Sir Doug has got me thinking this would sit nicely between my iPad and desktop stuff as a good way to get iOS audio bits and pieces into shape, before shipping it off to the desktop for further fiddling.

If I do raid pennies from the gas bill jar then I'll make sure to click the link from Doug's page first.

Just don't tell Mrs Monzo.

@MonzoPro thanks Dr Monzo, you may like my next BM3 tutorial that will be out shortly, about importing your own samples from Audioshare, making a new sample and building a brand new Pad Bank, deleting unwanted samples and folder management

Sounds good - Audioshare is my go-to library, and this is definitely something I'd be using BM3 for. Looking forward to the vid, could be the shove that knocks me off the fence...

@MonzoPro Should be live in about half hour or so, should i post it just here or start a new thread...lol

[Deleted User]

@thesoundtestroom said:

@MonzoPro said:

@thesoundtestroom said:

@MonzoPro said:

@JohnnyGoodyear said:
BTW Sir Doug. Just watched through this and REALLY WISHED I had before I even touched anything. Really what TSTR does best; a quick, honest and simple intro to cut through all the buttons and get you going. The beans are very cool in this one....thanks so much.

Couldn't agree more Lord Johnny. As usual Doug is filling the gaps left by the dev's official vids - which actually put me off the thing. In contrast, Sir Doug has got me thinking this would sit nicely between my iPad and desktop stuff as a good way to get iOS audio bits and pieces into shape, before shipping it off to the desktop for further fiddling.

If I do raid pennies from the gas bill jar then I'll make sure to click the link from Doug's page first.

Just don't tell Mrs Monzo.

@MonzoPro thanks Dr Monzo, you may like my next BM3 tutorial that will be out shortly, about importing your own samples from Audioshare, making a new sample and building a brand new Pad Bank, deleting unwanted samples and folder management

Sounds good - Audioshare is my go-to library, and this is definitely something I'd be using BM3 for. Looking forward to the vid, could be the shove that knocks me off the fence...

@MonzoPro Should be live in about half hour or so, should i post it just here or start a new thread...lol

If it was me, to avoid the forum exploding, I'd put it here

ExAsperis99

I completely contributed to the derailment of this thread. Back to our feature presentation.

thesoundtestroom

Here is my Sample Import from your other app tutorial thing

[Deleted User]

@thesoundtestroom said:
Here is my Sample Import from your other app tutorial thing

Thanks Doug, really useful. I've got half a ton of drum sounds in Komplete, and you've demonstrated how easy it is to build custom kits (or instruments) with BM3, which gives me a way to link iPad and desktop workflows together.

The more I see of BM3, the more useful I think it'd be for my stuff. While Ableton, Logic and Maschine are powerful beasts, being able to do a bit of donkey work on the iPad, via armchair and cuppa, beats sitting at a desk in front of the PC.