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Hi,

If I pan say kick hard left and hats hard right at source, I can sample two drums at once and save time when producing. I have been scratching my head trying to find a way to convert the resulting stereo sample into two mono samples, only using the 555.

It seems the sp555 strangley doesn't have a stereo to mono facility to I have been trying to hack it with effects.

I thought there might be an effect with panning to let me choose an input (L or R) then resample as mono. Apprently there isn't.

I wondered whether the vocal canceller effect might be employed to cancel out either the left or right channel, then resample say the hats in mono to a pad, switch the direction, and resample the kick in mono to a pad.

Can't seem to get where I need. Does anybody have any other ideas?

Mike

the 555 is not that dif than the 404, and the panning options suck.

the functionality yr after doesn't exist (unless i'm not understanding stuff).

yr options depend on what result you want.

you could:
--sample in stereo (to dif pads) w/ yr kick left and yr hat right, then re-sample them together in stereo to have them both on one pad
--sample in mono (to dif pads) a kick and a hat, then play w/ yr MFX panning / tremolo effect, get them to land basically where you want (L & R) and re-sample these in stereo together to a new pad

maaaaybe other options, but these are the 2 that seem the best fit.

i figured the options were limited.

What i am trying to achieve is to convert a stereo sample (treated as two independant mono sources) back to two seperate mono samples on different pads.

It's just quicker for sampling say kick,snare,clap,hats

in two sweeps as kick(l) snare(r), clap(l) hats(r)

rather than sampling the beat in 4 sweeps.

I used to manage this on an su700 and had hoped there would be a work around to make the 555 do it.

another option would be to do it by frequency.

Sample your loop and duplicate it twice. Use the isolator to split out the hats / snares / kick respectively.

I have a question about sampling in mono. Will it 50:50 sum the left and right or will it sample the left exclusively?

Kind regards,
Mike

mono does 50:50 sum, in my experience.

fun work-around is to sample stuff with only 1 RCA plug plugged into the input. just left, for ex.

You can resample to mono easily, but not split a stereo file into two mono files on the 555. Trust me, just sampling in mono is a thousand times quicker than in stereo and then trying to seperate it again using pan fx and whatnot. As long as there is no split-stereo-file-into-two-mono function you're just wasting your time.
What is there to speed up anyways? Once you've set a record threshold, sampling drums couldn't be any quicker on the SP series.