Now we're going to create an interesting looping synthesizer
from this creative delay clip.
But the fun thing about this process is it can work with any sample.
So try vocal samples, and bass samples, and drum samples.
Found sounds, speeches.
Whatever you have, you can make playable,
tuned synthesizer sounds this way.
First thing I'll do is add a midi track.
I'll add simpler to it.
I'll do my favorite method, which is Command F, type Simpler, down arrow,
Enter, and then close up the browser.
And then I'll drag the crazy delay sample right down to the simpler.
If I play a key on my keyboard--
[ELECTRONIC SOUND]
--it plays that sound.
Like before, I'm going to turn snapping off and looping on.
And I'll adjust the loop length to about 1%.
[ELECTRONIC SOUND]
Already, it's a pretty cool sound.
With that, I can start changing the start percentage.
So I'll play a note.
[ELECTRONIC SOUND]
So what we're finding here that's really interesting
is the loop length is determining the pitch.
But as I move that start point and scan around
to find other locations in the sample, the timbre changes pretty drastically.
One nice thing about the knobs on the push
is that the start parameter, if you change the knob on the push,
has a very fine resolution.
I can also do that with the keyboard by holding Command
while changing the parameter, which allows me to move this--
[ELECTRONIC SOUNDS]
--in very small percentages to get a really nice shifting timbre as we move
that start point around.
I'm going to find a nice timbre before I tune this instrument.
[ELECTRONIC SOUNDS]
I like that sound.
It's a cool one.
Now I want to make sure that when I play this,
it'll be in tune with the rest of the world.
So I have to make sure that when I play a C on my keyboard,
I actually get the note of C coming out.
Now to make this a little easier, I actually
created a very simple max for live plug-in.
And that's over here in the note display track.
It's a simple midi instrument that just shows us which key you hit last.
So I'm hitting some keys on my keyboard.
And it's just displaying which note and which octave.
I'm going to take this midi plug-in and put it right before my new instrument.
This way, as I play on the keyboard--
[ELECTRONIC NOTES]
--we see what notes are played.
And now I add my tuner device.
Again, the same way to add plug-ins, Command F, T-U-N-E-R, down Enter.
And I have a tuner device.
Now my goal is to just go to the crazy delay plug-in to the control section,
and adjust transpose and detune until the note
that I send in midi equals the tuned pitch.
Let's try it.
[ELECTRONIC SOUND]
And I'll just transpose up to go from B up to C.
And I'll adjust D tune til we're in tune.
And now, every time I play a note, the midi input is a D,
and the audio output is a D. Midi input is
a C. Audio output is a C. We have an in tune, playable instrument.