Playing a sample like a synth!?

[Armando]

Guys i was looking for a vst where i can put a sample into it and then play it on the keybord like a synth, already pitched and with a good sound.
What do you advise me?
I tried with the audio sampler "battery 3" from Native Instrument, but when you pitch the sample, they do not sound very well..

[tone-def]

i use nn-xt and nn-19 in reason. you could also kontakt or esx24 if you use logic.

[Camel]

In ableton you can use sampler (or simpler) for this task. But as you already mentioned in your post the sound changes.

I heard melodyne has a different technology/approach to pitching sounds. Not sure though, as I never used it personnally. You should look into it.

[STML]

To do this properly, you need to multisample whatever it is you want to play up and down the keyboard. A single sample will get pitched up and down as you go, creating the kind of sound you say doesn't work very well.

What I mean by multisample:

Say you have a synth you want to sample. You record the sound at C2, then again at say, E2, then again at say G2. So on. You then create a sample instrument with the resulting files and after tweaking it in the sampler of you choice, you now have a nice sounding instrument. You could also go in for velocity layers and some other things to make it even more expressive and detailed.

Depends on what you want really, but no, no good way to take a single sample and turn it into a synth.

[STML]

I heard melodyne has a different technology/approach to pitching sounds. Not sure though, as I never used it personnally. You should look into it.

Melodyne is a very cool and powerful technology, but, as with most tools like this, if you push it out of its sweet spot, it can start to sound very strange.

[pafufta816]

check out photosounder. it converts an audio file into a spectrogram in bitmap format. you can then edit the spectrogram like an image (or use photoshop/gimp to edit it). after that you can play it back and photosounder will resynthesize the spectrogram back to a sound using sine waves. it works great as a vocoder, you can also edit out certain instruments to isolate vocals, etc. it's a little price, $80 for a single license, but the possibilities are endless.

http://www.photosounder.com

if this one costs to much, and you are familiar with unix/linux, there is a command-line version, ARSS (analysis and reynthesis sound spectrograph), which photosounder was built off. it's free.

http://arss.sourceforge.net/

using either of these software you can pitch and timestretch any sound to oblivion and back. load into sampler et voila

[KryoShift]

http://www.photosounder.com

I'm in love.

[NomadSpectrum]

http://www.photosounder.com

I'm in love.

Looks splendid