Hello Elektronistas,
When I look at the various sound packs, e.g. for Elektron gear, I’ ve never found an information regarding the key or scale they were tuned to. Is that not important or not disclosed, only?
Wouldn’t that be helpful - especially when you try to combine these sounds with own ones?
What do you think (as a sound designer who sells sound packs)?
I always did. I generally included the root pitch of any chromatic sample in the file name and I always embedded the root note meta-data in the sample file. But I also sold lots of multisampled instruments that were meant to be mapped to a keyboard, so it was a given.
It depends TBH some do and some don’t Samples From Mars usually do, when I do mine if they are pitched sounds I usually stick to C if samples or synth sounds, and if not then I put it in the name. I also include documentation with any relevant info.
On one hand I feel your pain and would take it a step further and say I wish everything in all sample packs was just a C root note. On the other hand I like the mystery, tuning things by ear (I couldn’t guess notes but can usually hear clashing pitches). You end up with some nice surprises when putting things together by ear.
I feel like most are C unless otherwise stated
Exactly, and it’s pretty easy to check.
I used to love it when packs labeled the key of samples. But those samples didn’t always sound good.
I’ve kind of given up on trying to match the key of things and go by ear. For me, that opened up more opportunities to just do whatever
Going by ear works.
However my current challenge is:
At the moment I’m in Techno, Tech House, Acid etc. In that genre after 10 minutes of listening even a drilling machine or a rusty ton sound good. 