Length and Envelope Edited Variations

One-Shot samples may easily be edited by the user in their sampler application, however sometimes it is nice to have immediate access to different emphasis and length of sound, the way a musician uses dynamics and silence or lowerred volume, perhaps an intentionally adjusted brighter or darker or thinner “tone” to the note they are playing.

This variation can be as important and expressive as the option of including a subtle “shuffle” or “swing” parameter to the 16th notes (such as in the Funky Techno genre)or the 8th notes (slightly more-often used in the Hip Hop genre).

If there are a couple more edited versions of the one-shot sample, the first adjustment is often in the length. So, in the naming, there will be a suffix of “long”, “med”, or “short”, before the .wav file format completion of the name.

If there is a “pitch ramp” in the sound, most often heard or observed in the waveform of a bassdrum or a tom-drum, that means if the one-shot sample is edited with a cut then a quick, unnoticeable fade-out … well then the “pitch ramp” of the one-shot sample might not get time to return to a lower pitch. And so essentially this editing results in a perceptibly higher-in-frequency sound. It might then sound “out of tune” with the rest of the instrumentation if the other drums or synths or guitars were tuned to the “perceived base tone-pitch” of the “long” bassdrum sample, for example.

Rather than simply ignore this phenomenon, TuneSong samples that have a pitch ramp and also are designed as a collection of longer and shorter options of the sound, allowing for greater range of dynamics, will actually be slightly re-tuned where possible, on the shorter samples, usually, so they sound “in tune” with the longer version of the “more complete” one-shot sample containing the aforementioned phenomenon of a “pitch ramp”.