Auditioning Samples Quickly

Plato · Post by **Plato** » Thu Mar 18, 2004 5:12 am

This probably sounds like stating the bleedin' obvious to most of you, but came as a minor revelation when it happened by accident last night.....
to audition a long list of samples in rapid succession, simply select all, right click & go to play.
Windows media player goes through them all , one after another.
Good for finding Drum samples etc.

ElectronicaDub · Post by **ElectronicaDub** » Fri Mar 19, 2004 4:42 pm

Excellent. I wrote a program in VB to do this because I needed to audition many drum hits easily. I will use your method from now on.

valis · Post by **valis** » Sat Mar 20, 2004 4:52 am

Works for winamp too (which is what I have set as preferred for most audio files). Also winamp has an 'enqueue in winamp' option which will append them to the end of your current files in the playlist instead of starting playback with the first one and replacing the playlist. One odd thing I've noticed with multiple selections in wavelab, and many other windows apps (photoshop) is that the item you right click on with be 'first' when added to any queue, so I make sure i click the top item in the list.

bosone · Post by **bosone** » Sun Mar 21, 2004 3:09 am

try the little freeware called fastwav

bosone · Post by **bosone** » Sun Mar 21, 2004 3:09 am

try the little freeware called fastwav

Shayne White · Post by **Shayne White** » Thu Apr 01, 2004 3:22 pm

I use Winamp too, although if I'm importing something into Sonar, Sonar has a "play file" feature.

at0m · Post by **at0m** » Thu Apr 01, 2004 5:50 pm

Winamp skips samples shorter than 1sec or so, which is often the case for percussion...

valis · Post by **valis** » Fri Apr 02, 2004 7:14 am

try turning off crossfade or use the wav (not directsound) driver...

krizrox · Post by **krizrox** » Wed Apr 21, 2004 5:39 am

I use Sony CD Architect for this type of work. The nice thing about this program is that you can see the waveforms on a timeline and with a single mouseclick jump from sample to sample instantly, while playing - no delay at all. It works great!

Of course, it's a little more expensive than those other programs. I bought it for the CD burning and editing features.

bassdude · Post by **bassdude** » Sat Apr 24, 2004 10:02 pm

Thanks for the Fastwave link bosone. Looks like a good little tool.

ARCADIOS · Post by **ARCADIOS** » Mon Jul 31, 2006 1:47 pm

adobe audition is great, auto plays and loops them.
fruity loops is perfect, especially for drum loop wavs, it is icredible how easily it changes the tempo of the loop without pitch changing. makes loops be played so easy in seconds. great for those who have tons of wavs from magazines. make it a try. these wavs with fruity loops work as if there were made with the application. and most of them sound much better than most drum machines. in adition you can add sounds on the whole project.