Hi,

I like to sample cheap yamaha and casio keyboards. Has anybody found a good way to gate the hiss out of these when sampling? Ideally there would be an effect with an adjustable threshold built in. Maybe a guitar pedal or something, if impedance wasn't an issue. What does everyone else use?

Mike

i have an alesis microgate which was pretty cheap and does the trick. and the boss ns-2 works too. but they only mute the sound below a certain threshold. they don't filter out the hiss of the notes you played. before i went hardware fanatic i used plugins to do it.
i had problems with the casio sk-5 but only with the sampled sounds. with the internal sounds of my yamaha and casio keyboards i never noticed a lot of hiss.

two thoughts
1. check your gain staging - the keyboard should be at or near 100% volume then slowly bring up the line in level on your sampler. If you have your line in level too far up the preamps will get noisey

2. A little destructive, but try using the isolator or EQ to take out the high end hiss and resample

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2. A little destructive, but try using the isolator or EQ to take out the high end hiss and resample[/quote]

sampling through the SP to another source with the [LOFI] lit chops the hiss off pretty well too.

standard 404 pitch is the best noise remover.

not shure how good it would work into your keyboard though.

will try pitch tonight