How can you turn a small sample into a never-ending pad?

[Larry Pham]

You can take it into a sampler like kontakt and loop it. Once you get a nice seamless loop, apply effects as desired. Play with the loop points to have it "evolve".

Larry

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On 2011-01-31, at 9:58 AM, Dave S <sly at mu-sly.co.uk> wrote:

> Hey Bar,
> 
> Something has been puzzling me for a few days, and I wondered if anyone 
> here knows the technique that might have been used, because I'd like to 
> play around with it myself.
> 
> In December, I downloaded some free sample packs from Tonehammer (under 
> the name "Gnomehammer") - one of which was called "Holy Ambience".
> 
> In the Holy Ambience pack, they appear to have taken a very small 
> section of a sample, and manipulated it into huge, evolving atmospheric 
> pads that seem to go on forever.
> 
> I'm wondering how this can be done?
> 
> I'm thinking perhaps it is convolution with a really long (probably 
> artificially generated) reverb impulse.  Or maybe it was through a 
> resynthesizer like Camel Audio's "Alchemy" or the Hartmann Neuron.
> 
> Anyone got any ideas?  I really want to play around with this technique, 
> if I can figure out where to begin.
> 
> I'm kinda hoping it wasn't the resynthesis method, because I don't 
> currently have access to that kind of thing - unless anyone knows a 
> freebie VSTi or other free software that's capable of doing it?
> 
> Cheers for any pointers in the right direction!
> 
> ~Dave
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