The age-old question about the dark art of Resampling

[TweakHead]

but of course you can have different samples for different keys on Ableton's sampler. it's just a matter of digging into it, before you start thinking you need something else. these packages that come with most daw software is actually pretty much all anyone's going to need, imo. and it's much more then people used to have access to, like a decade ago, feature wise.

so yeah, best advise here is to learn your tools, see where you can take them. then you'll presumably make much more informed choices on what comes next. but to really answer your question, then Kontakt would be the way to go. alchemy can play samples and do all sorts of things with them, but don't think of it as something to be used for that kind of sampling, more like granular odd stuff then good old school kind of sampling - know what I mean?

[OPERATOR]

Originally Posted by TweakHead

but of course you can have different samples for different keys on Ableton's sampler. it's just a matter of digging into it, before you start thinking you need something else.

Unfortunately not... At least, not in the way I and Innovine described. That is, one sample spread across the keyrange WITHOUT pitchbend, such that playing different notes only alters the sample's start position (like slicing a REX file in ReCycle) It's really unfortunate because it's such a simple thing that's been a common feature of samplers for years, but Live's Sampler can't implement it. There are other ways to achieve a similar process - namely, Live's 'slice to new MIDI track' feature, but the 'morph' filters, FM and pitch envelopes I'm so fond of in Sampler are missing from these instances. Although, even just typing this out now, I'm thinking of a couple of workarounds that sacrifice minimal features.

I think I should still invest in Kontakt, though, at least eventually. I know exactly what you mean about bogging oneself down with too much gear and software. I've dramaticallg shifted away from that attitude recently, restricted myself to just the Virus, Battery 3 and Live as my primary toolkit and my work has improved, I think. It's something I have to keep reminding myself; Keep it Simple, Stupid.