alex78 wrote:I’ve been recording samples of about a second or so for every key on the keyboard
A second is very short, even for a plucked type of sound. Especially when the original sound has a long attcak or some evolving texture you will need much more than that. in just one second the sounds envelope has not been fully developed. You should record a few seconds more after it reaches to the sustain level, you will have some "body" to loop then. Instead of recording every key with short duration, It's better to sample fewer but with longer duration IMO, try every 3rd semitone.
Thanks, Alex78, that’s helpful. My recordings are probably a few seconds, actually. Still, what I’ve done hasn’t seemed enough to get a dependable sustain to loop, especially in the high register that has faster beats with the notes’ imperfections. I should try much longer recordings. I want my samples not to have an lfo effect from the loop but be as even as possible and also to have the same “beef” I hear in the Moog.
In the Stage 3, we can use oscillator control to blend samples with wave forms for additional variety of sounds, which the Wave 2 appears not to feature. Anyone have any thoughts on techniques to shape samples once they’re in the Wave 2 for creative sound design?