The flaw with this approach, though, is that it can't recreate the way most of these synths work: for instance, pitching a sample up an octave will effectively halve the envelope and/or modulation times of the sound's filter and amplifier, but it would be a rare analogue synth patch where these tracked the keyboard in this way.ĭespite such conceptual problems, however, all is not lost. The documentation cheerfully informs you that synth sounds 'nearly always transpose well when sampled', so only one note is included for many of the sounds, and never more than one note per octave. The idea is that you create a playable patch by transposing each sample across the keyboard in your choice of sampler - if you have EXS24, Halion, or Reason, patches have been included to do this for you. This library features single-note samples of a mouth-watering collection of vintage synths, including models by ARP, Emu, EMS, Oberheim, Moog, Roland, and Sequential. Published September 2005 Sample Lab Analog Archive ***
