TAL-Sampler: How to Chop Amen Breaks

[@suadcokljat1045]

Back then we were struggling to make 12bit sampler sound hi-fi. Today we are struggling to make hi-fi sampler sound lo-fi. I😂

[@supahfly_uk]

Americans making Jungle I love it :D

[@colonialp9]

This sampler is great

[@Thought-Forms]

agreed! thing is a beast

[@SuperKashiyuka]

Great tutorials ! The transposed cyclic stretch is awesome !

[@Thought-Forms]

thank you my friend! sounds wild doesn't it

[@Jonny_Does_Breaks]

Thanks for this. I have been using Kontakt for years but really like the time stretching on TAL

[@Thought-Forms]

cheers. the stretch algo's on tal-sampler are very good

[@Teetimeagain]

Thanks for this, I was getting stuck sussing out why I couldn't do what I could do when I used to own an S2000 in regards to having the same sample with different start points on different keys, bang, found this video. I thought the start point was global to layer 1 and that I needed to use layer 2 to select same sample with different start point meaning only four edits max. Will watch again whilst using Tal, cheers. 😊

[@Thought-Forms]

understandable! it stumped me at first, but once you get it down its a really easy sampler to use. enjoy :)

[@Teetimeagain]

@@Thought-Forms Cheers 😀 Sub'd.

[@Arc.hitectureMusic]

Love it! Think I’ll have to do a Tal Sampler video after seeing this. That real time timestretch density trick could yield some cool results.

[@GermoStaalfeldt]

that looks cool

[@qtrax100]

HOLY SHIT! SOLD!

[@Thought-Forms]

wise choice!

[@nolan_shaga]

Fire upload thanks for the awesome work!

[@Thought-Forms]

thank you, Nolan!

[@TheBroDotTV]

Would love this in the iPad!

[@E-1K]

Very great video. 😎

[@federicoalten2803]

Love the video! Question: where can i get these samples?

[@kodex4490]

thankyou for this...very helpful

[@killianbyrne5647]

Great stuff .. out of interest where the original Amen sample from ?

[@Ноунеймбезгалочки-м7ч]

a song called amen brothers

[@vjgreenoptic]

this timestrech sounds better like in NI Battery 4

[@eduardoreginaldo3000]

Great tutorials - appreciate the under-the-hood view of your processes. I have a question regarding sample triggering in TAL sampler (which I have). Is TAL's sample triggering method similar to Ableton's Simplers 'retrig' mode in Classic mode or the trigger mode of the 1-shot mode? Can it be changed between the two? I prefer the Trigger mode but can't see a way of setting that up in TAL. Seems to be set to a retrig mode by default.

[@Thought-Forms]

cheers reggie! not sure how ableton's simpler works,, but tal-sampler will follow the AHDSR envelope (ENV1) for sample playback. that said there is a "one shot" toggle you can enable under the MASTER SETTINGS which will disable the AHDSR ENV1 and use 1-shot as the playback method. that what you were looking for?

[@MrMikomi]

Hi, great video, many thanks! Does the cyclic effect apply to all samples in the layer? Visually it looks like it does (or would), but listening it sounds like it does not - the first samples that you mapped seem not to be affected.

[@TheBroDotTV]

Need a good alternative to Akaizer. Sounds good!

[@kirillmalchenko4453]

Thanks

[@jchief40]

thanks for the tut.. I have TAL Sampler and when I load my amen break it's at normal speed / james brown sample.. is there an easy way to auto time stretch or should I just slice up the sample the old school way , then bounce and THEN import into TAL?

[@Thought-Forms]

Sorry I missed this comment - no there isnt. Lately I've just been doing it the old school way: load the sample into Tal-Sampler, set my DAW tempo and loop the sample over however many bars it is, pitch it up in tal-sampler until its a tight perfect-ish loop

[@nbr2737]

juicy

[@Thought-Forms]

jooced up

[@Rulon-bo1ig]

Do you normally leave your breaks stereo after you’ve sampled them from a record or do you bounce to mono? It would be best to leave them stereo to keep the high hat panning etc no? I bounce mine to mono generally and pan the hats to the way I like em.

[@Thought-Forms]

Not usually - if I'm sampling with hardware I'll always sample in mono. In the box I almost always convert to mono unless I forget. One of the reasonings as you mentioned, can place them exactly where you want

[@Rulon-bo1ig]

@@Thought-Forms good tip! Thanks for showing me what tal sampler can do, the software sampler with the features I’ve always wanted, really interesting price too, I had to find something to replace akaizer time stretch cause its not supported on new Mac OS anymore, this one sounds really authentic. I had the s3000xl and I sold it stupidly, now I don’t have room for a studio so I just use software.

[@Thought-Forms]

@@Rulon-bo1ig of course! I much prefer this over akaizer, and the workflow is a lot nicer too. bummer on the 3000xl - they're still relatively cheap compared to some of the others if you ever decide to get some more room. tal-sampler is a great compromise either way, enjoy!

[@eraldlesi]

Is there any way to sync the loop on the BPM of the track? For example in this case both the loop and the DAW tempo are at 165. What If I wanted to play the Amen Break on a 130BPM project?

[@Thought-Forms]

Hey Erald - there isn't sadly :( Tal-Drum has a few more pieces of functionality to help with tempo syncing, though it is largely more based on an MPC type workflow

[@medicisounds1384]

Why not use Tal-Drum? Would that vst not work better fro drums

[@Thought-Forms]

Haven't checked out TAL-DRUM since it was first released, may need to go take a look again

[@huonrae2572]

Great video thanks heaps! One question, when I try the cyclic time stretch it’s applying the effect to all of the slices rather than just one, any ideas what I might be doing wrong?

[@shortattentionspa.....]

I have the exact same thing did you find the solution to this? thanks!

[@shortattentionspa.....]

I can get it to work by mapping the time stretched breaks on a second layer (this in ableton 11 with tal version 4.2.3) but would be great to figure out how to do all in one layer

[@nutsosix7930]

akaizer has more of that flavor you want, too bad its not a vst2, or vst3.

[@Thought-Forms]

totally - great program - if it were in VST format i'd be all over it

[@GermoStaalfeldt]

auto slice?

[@secretchefcollective444]

Newest version provides a manual slice function, still a bit jank though.

[@timojanknoll4514]

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