Logic Pro X - Turn a Vocal Sample into EXS24 Instrument

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[@digitalassemblage]

Excellent tutorial and infinitely helpful, thank you for creating and posting this one.

[@JulianHarris]

As an Logic & EXS24 noob but long-time sequencer/sampler guy, this was epicly useful. I think I learnt like a dozen or more new things in this. Thanks!

[@Rhythmattica]

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[@GR-uw7yc]

Rhythmattica quite right! I was amazed when I discovered it.

[@OpletalRobin]

Do these plugs have any manual?

[@ajadrew]

I always knew I know nothing & this video confirms it but in a really good & useful way...thanks!

[@pyphus]

Wow! Cool. It's essentially the Logic Pro version of what 10cc did for "I'm Not In Love". Excellent!

[@rosalindacaseley6996]

Knocked it out the park dude 😎 brilliant thanks!!!!!

[@40avo]

Josh is the best Logic/Sound Design teacher hands down!

[@GreenValley146]

After using Alchemy for voice sampling, I said goodbey to the EXS24 sampler after since. But now I think I am picking up the old EXS24 again and try to be as creative as you show us you can be with this sampler. You blew new life into Logics EXS24 (donald duck) Sampler. Thanks!

[@ALTN8NRG]

Blown away. Great video!

[@Jamminn555]

Extremely cool. Thanks so much for posting!

[@albertoskrico9412]

Amazing!!!

[@derekmidgley]

Brilliant, thank you so much!

[@resettheworld7211]

very nice chord progression

[@MITTEL.PUNKT_13]

As good as always. Germany loves this

[@des2345671]

Nicely demonstrated

[@joeypereira1592]

Josh Great as always my friend good sound design....Joey

[@eugenescalisi5124]

Very cool and useful

[@rayjayvids]

Excellent. Thank you.

[@richardsummers1970]

Any chance you could make an updated version of this video which uses "Sampler" - as exs24 is no longer part of logic?

[@RogerioValgode]

Awesome, gona give it a try! Thanks! :)

[@idobrendan]

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[@petitivalentini962]

You're the best

[@Avatar7x7]

@MusicTechHelpGuy This is a great video but on the real do you know of a shortcut to achieve the same thing because that's a lot of steps to memorize or is there a written step by step guide to create this stacked vocal sample instrument.. also does the vocal transform plugin correct the pitch ? Meaning if the singer sang a Bb but when you run it through vocal transform and adjust pitch to a C natural etc then you decide that you want the 1st pitch to C1 on the keyboard etc? .. Is that how it works ?

[@rolandgerard6064]

Great tutorial!

[@steveb2145]

great video but how do you start from very beginning of opening Logic ? how did you input the sample file etc.. (sorry, new to Logic ! )

[@debarjo]

I think the sample in the video sounds so cool because of the Valhallah Shimmer. Paid plugins pay!

[@Shawneenation]

hey What can I do if i Do not Have an {Edit} option for some reason??

[@thenewyorkcowboy7497]

Well, I just spent an hour trying to follow your process with one vocal sample. I lost you at find the .wav file and import it into the sampler. Wish there was a way with less steps to get my .wav files into the sampler. Will try again next week.

[@dcsapporo]

How can you do this in the recent version of logic?

[@louiseannaduggan1887]

How do you open the edit window in the EX24 if there is no edit button?

[@bkrakesh9889]

This the way through which we can make our own sounds .... Thanks

[@recmydream]

Does it possible to made panning for some of samples in exs 24? Made them more wide

[@comar90]

Any thoughts on how to do this with the new sampler in Logic?

[@QuintSEnce]

Excellent video, although I already use these techniques but great video just the same.

[@Boretoto]

Great!

[@Calciumchlorid]

how do I do this now :D ? because the EXS24 doesnt exist anymore...

[@AndrewHelbig]

That's what I am wondering

[@MajorGRecording]

Can you sample in surround sound 5.1 or 7.1.2?

[@nickfauzamusic]

Free Plug-in Weekly man, please!!

[@anelka10]

my logic doesn't allow me to do the "export audio files" step, it only exports one file even though i have all of the 48 files selected

[@AndrewHelbig]

1:17 ROBO-tize for sure. Robot eyes doesn't make sense!

[@prod.hxrford3896]

that sound is really cool but I can't fit a whole 20gb sampler instrument library on my computer :(

[@damarcusl02]

i don't get the edito option in the exs24 sampler

[@frenchquack6805]

HOOOOOLY SHIT THIS WORKFLOW

[@frenchquack6805]

wow have i been wasting a lot of time

[@Calciumchlorid]

Tried with Quick Sample but its a mess.... We need a new version :D pleeease

[@Afiplaysmusic]

I did one with quick sample. It worked out fine. What happened? Maybe there was something I should have done?

[@eelam_hiphops]

intresting can we do it on any other daws supporting windows

[@MusicTechHelpGuy]

You can repeat the same process in any DAW. Use similar plug-ins and a third party sampler, or a DAW's integrated sampler.

[@Alexramos]

is valhallashimmer built in logic? where is it?

[@gukas.1338]

No, you have to buy it.

[@MusicTechHelpGuy]

It's a third party plug-in. $50 from Valhalla DSP. But you can use any reverb to recreate the effect I did in this video.

[@GR-uw7yc]

Don’t know why you would bother to do this when it’s so much quicker and easier in Alchemy.

[@MusicTechHelpGuy]

If you prefer Alchemy go for it, or any other 3rd party sampler for that matter. I would argue that doing this in the EXS24 is actually less time consuming than Alchemy. The EXS24 is a dedicated sampler, it's meant for one purpose, sampling... it does has a few modulation controls, but nothing crazy. It does one thing really well if you know how to use it. Alchemy has a bunch of synthesis and modulation parameters which is great if you want to further modulate the sound, and visually it's easier to work with for sampling. But, there's a couple issues I have with Alchemy for multi-sampled instruments like this. (1) It only supports a maximum of 32 voices, whereas the EXS24 supports 64. If you're doing anything really ambient with a lot of long overlapping release tails, you can run out of voices, and this also makes it completely unusable for complex multi-sampled drum instruments as well. Way back when I was making my Alchemy series, I was going to do a video on complex drum sampling, but it was a total fail because I was running out of voices when the drums are all 1-shots. (2) In the video I show that you can set the sample range and loop range for one of the samples, then copy and paste that same setting over to ALL of the samples. You cannot do this in Alchemy. You have to go through sample-by-sample and manually adjust the start/end/loop range. Without a doubt the GUI for adjusting these is nicer and easier in Alchemy, but you'd ultimately waste a lot of time manually adjusting the start/end/loop range for 49 or more samples.

[@GR-uw7yc]

Thanks for your reply - good points. I suppose my thinking is that you’ve started with a single sample, removed the pitch information using a plugin, chopped it up and added new pitch information manually when you could do it all very quickly in Alchemy using additive resynthesis, without any need for multisampling. You’re quite right about Alchemy’s limitations as a sampler though.

[@MusicTechHelpGuy]

@@GR-uw7yc Because re-synthesizing from a single sample will not sound as good as using multiple samples. It adds artifacts and will produce a different tone than multi-sampling. Now, you might actually like the result! And that's fine. But I usually don't like the way it turns out using a single sample. Also, if you're sampling an acoustic instrument, you can't do this without destroying the natural character of the instrument.

[@gilbertcazares634]

Good shop talk.