How to: Old school ambient pads in Tal-Sampler

[@d.c.1204]

Yes yes, love these tutorials on how to approach old-school 90s techniques with software vsts. Big thumbs up for Tal-Sampler content as well, definitely buying the sample pack

[@devondetroit2529]

The trick is to buy his preset pack

[@Basedboomerchadbear]

...my gosh!!! That TAL sample pack tho!!!! Ruff and rugged!!!! 👍👍👍👍👍🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@the8bitdeity]

It's weird but there is such a particular quality when you pitch shift down with sample playback. It's like *plays pad on analog synth at lower register -> sound gets farty"* whereas *plays sample of analog pad at lower register - sound gets a particularly airy quality with some girth to it*

[@Thought-Forms]

No doubt! One of the big reasons for using this over your default DAW sampler (and why people still use those old samplers)

[@lorenmorgan1931]

Same technique is how Mutt Lange got all those wonderful drum sounds, especially for Def Leppard Hysteria. The snare was three samples two drums that weren't even snares, pitched down to give them that thick 8bit sound. I believe they used the CMI for all the drums on that album. But he's reused that technique in many albums he's produced and it's amazing sounding.

[@SectorSevenSlumz]

Lovely stuff! Also if you just play one note and record that, you'll get a different sound when playing back the samples as a chord as each note of the chord will evolve at different speeds creating a different but cool effect. Both very useful!

[@ambiguationdotnet]

Awesome vid! Thanks!! TAL has saved me a small fortune by not buying a bona fide 90s hardware sampler... prices these days are ridiculous! I'm still scratching the surface with TAL but it's tutorials like yours that get me back in the music chair, so thanks again!

[@Thought-Forms]

cheers! appreciate the comment and watch. no doubt prices are insane these days on all the classic gear. tal-sampler is as fun as it gets ITB while still bringing back some of that old school sampler charm. great VST for the price. hope you enjoy and are able to crank out some tunes with it

[@rorz999]

It's an amazing plugin - definitely my go-to software sampler when I'm looking to add some old-school character to my sounds

[@Flux_One]

absolutely epic video. Every time you played a key the hairs on the back of my neck stood to attention, and sent me back to my youth

[@Thought-Forms]

thanks for watching, Phoxatron! those pad sounds get me too, could sit there holding down a single key for hours

[@koncreteto2758]

Hi thanks for all these tal sampler tutorials and the tal drum, i just got the set, one thing i wanted to ask is some of the areas on your sampler are different to mine, maybe this is a slightly older version of it ? I've subbed too 😊

[@Thought-Forms]

Thanks mate! This is just an older version, they updated the UI maybe a year ago to what it is today

[@koncreteto2758]

Yeah, the old UI looks better IMO, shame really, although i still dig it, have you tried the tal-pha yet? I hope so, need some tutorials 😂​@Thought-Forms

[@AlexAlcyone]

Sooo dope what is happening here. Fantastic tutorial on how to get creative results with Tal as well as killer sounds you got going on. Super underrated channel.

[@Thought-Forms]

Much appreciated Atomic!

[@polysormi3825]

those sounds are magic! i bought the sample pack because of this video

[@Thought-Forms]

thanks mate! much appreciated

[@VirtualModular]

A top trick for perfect looping I nicked from someone years ago is to open the file in an editor like Audacity. Just select a portion of the file, cut it, and paste at the start. Then the end of the sample loops perfectly with the start, but you have a click in the middle. Now select a few seconds either side of the join and use the 'crossfade clips' option from the effects menu. Voila, a perfectly looping file. Obviously that doesn't work if you just want to loop a sustain section, but I just loop the whole lot then use the sampler's envelopes to make a smooth pad 😉

[@Thought-Forms]

Ah love it mate, great tip! I'll need to give this a shot...one of those tips only a master of the craft could know. much appreciated!

[@djtall3090]

Really appreciate you making this video, helped me get started. Thanks!

[@Thought-Forms]

Glad it helped!

[@SuperKashiyuka]

Awesome ! Thanks

[@DS-wi3bk]

wowwww thanks man, great tutorial 🤘

[@Basedboomerchadbear]

Thank k first in line to buy that pad pack brother!!! Very nice!!! 😎👍

[@Thought-Forms]

cheers man!

[@Basedboomerchadbear]

@@Thought-Forms 💪😎👍

[@clarkflavor]

That sound is mad 👍👍👍

[@genkobayashi6132]

there's so much i'm learning from you as i myself use tal sampler as well. thank you! would be greatful if you'd release presets for tal sampler as i'm sure that'll be game changer

[@Thought-Forms]

glad you were able to learn some things! tal-sampler is a beast. hoping to put something out for tap-sampler this year :)

[@desreb3385]

Thnx!

[@medicisounds1384]

love it

[@sinewaves1631]

Nice tutorial, I like layering in some other sounds in a pad like noise etc

[@Basedboomerchadbear]

….TAL pack!!!! ….woohoo!!!!

[@rcecil88]

Yes Bobby!

[@Thought-Forms]

big rob!

[@fourcandlesmusic]

Great tutorial, thanks :)

[@fullcircleaudio]

Bang on

[@daveyp4804]

I needed this, ty

[@GeneralDead1978]

Why C3 is root note for sample chord Fm9? Maybe F3 is correct?

[@Pablo-yi9ox]

Subscribed

[@DeSzeReB]

Good info.. ensoniq mirage and EPS 16+ dac settings are needed

[@Thought-Forms]

that would be slick! lets hope they add some more

[@dreamyrhodes]

Cool tutorial however you know you didn't have the LFO in effect in the end, yes? You put the LFO rate up to 13 beats, that's more than three bars. The subtle sweep you heard was actually from the sample itself not from the cutoff LFO.

[@xVILOx]

Omni lyf ❤🎉

[@3xAudio]

very helpful TY

[@Sohasounds]

hey, any idea when the pack for tal-sampler will come out? cheers

[@RecMirage]

Quick question, why didn't you record that sample in the key of C, I beleive the root note was F in the chord you played ? I saw you set the sample from C3 to G7 but wouldn't it be out of key with other melodies you play accoriding to scale? Really nice tutorial otherwise!

[@christopherbryan4199]

Do you know how to change the skin/colour of the Tal sampler? I've looked on their website and it says it's possible, however when I looked in the manual there's no mention of how to do it. The new update looks really ugly and I'd rather change the colour to anything else. Great tutorial as always!

[@Thought-Forms]

Hey Chris, thank you! I'm actually not sure how to change the skin on the newest version, though I'd agree - much prefer the look of the older one. I'll send them a note and see if there is a way to do it

[@wesync3088]

so if we sampled a chord then played on one note basically playing chords of each note right

[@moresnqp]

is TAL-sampler free? i use various free plugins and like diversifying my toolkit

[@Thought-Forms]

$49 I believe, and well worth it for the resampler functionality alone

[@damianlove19]

What happened to the release of the Tal-sampler preset pack ?

[@maximsyabro3295]

Do imget correctly that since youre using Cmin after sampling and playing D note you’ll get D min scale? So every note will change the sclae?

[@bournedevinesupreme]

Just curious, is it not possible to do any of this in bitwig's own sampler?

[@Thought-Forms]

sure! bitwig's native sampler is pretty powerful - it's not a 1:1 for identical tool, but conceptually it's similar in that it's a sampler. really any DAW will have a built in sampler. I'd say tal-sampler was purpose designed to mimic old school sampler workflows whereas a native sampler will typically be better integrated in your DAW and provide a more modern workflow

[@embersandash]

Did you ever release the preset pack?

[@pholcmann]

thanks for the video, is there a release date for your pads bank? thx!

[@Thought-Forms]

no problem, and hoping to put it up this week 💪

[@Joggeson]

This might be a dumb question but when I sample a chord and then it is pitched down/up and drawn all over the different notes of a keyboard are the notes of every key played still representing the true note that it was originally played at and can I still play all the key of one scale with each other?

[@Unknown_Artist2.7182]

Is the sampler sample pack finished yet?

[@medicisounds1384]

What is the best way to use Tal Sampler to sample lets say a Reese Bass? So say i use serum and hold down the C note and bounce it to audio and then put it into Tal Sampler?

[@Thought-Forms]

You got it, & loop the bass in Tal-Sampler so you can hold down longer notes if needed

[@resofactor]

Show how to do this in a tracker like FTII Clone

[@RyanSmith-fn3uj]

Hi, Where can I buy your pads pack that works with the tal sampler. I have tal sampler but I don't have korg wavestation

[@Thought-Forms]

Hey Ryan - Unfortunately it's not available yet - still working on it (albeit very slowly,) want to make sure its full of a bunch of good / usable stuff 💪

[@reuegabe9037]

In this video, as I understand it, you are simply modifying a ready-made sample, but how to create such a sample from scratch?

[@Thought-Forms]

hey reuegabe, exactly! I have a few vids on the channel showing how to make pads from scratch if youd want to go that route. cheers

[@reuegabe9037]

@@Thought-Forms, ok, i will check those, thanks a lot!)

[@beautifulcaramelman]

FL studio has it all built in. Just drag and drop and play. But I still hate FL studio. It's a bag of shi+