Posts tagged sampling

Native Instruments hits the nail on the head with making any musician feel comfortable making music on a computer. I have recently been getting into Kontakt’s (3) sampler. Like anything NI seems to put out its easy and alot of fun to use. One of many features is the “Zone Envelope Editor” a new and reworked wave editor in Kontakt in which you can draw envelopes directly in the sample waveform. Pretty convenient if you ask me. I was talking to my friend Jon Victorino about its capabilities and he and I decided to have some fun with it. Jon and I live about 3,000 miles apart (give or take a few hundred) and he came up with the idea of recording random sounds on his Mac Book Pro and put me up to the challenge of making something musical out of it. He emailed me a minute long audio file containing some of the random sounds he made at his desk and in about a half hour “Mouth Music” was what I had came up with. This being my first time using Kontakts Sampler one might notice how easy it is to get a grasp of the sampler. Kontakt 3 (and I am sure the same goes for 4) is fun to use and extremely intuitive. It’s sleek user interface design makes Kontakt feel like an instrument and not just another piece of music software. All the sounds on the following track were recorded using only the built in microphone on Jon’s Mac Book Pro.

mouthmusic

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