Analoguesque - Soundfont Tutorial

Sound Designs

Importing Samples

In Chapter 1 we explored how to create simple waveforms in Cool Edit. Now it's time to bring these samples into Vienna and use them to create some analog sounds. For this we move into the Tree Window, where importing samples is easy:

Right-Click on User Sample Pool in the Sample Section, and select Import User Sample(s)... (Figure 3.1).

Figure 3.1

Use the familiar Windows load file screen to navigate to the directory where you stored the samples generated in Chapter 1, and select the sawtooth waveform - sawtooth-A4.wav (Figure 3.2). Click on the Import button.

Figure 3.2

That's it! Vienna has imported your waveform, as shown in Figure 3.3.

Figure 3.3

Import each of your other waveforms in the same manner. Note that you can import multiple waveforms together by making use of the standard Windows multiple-select option - Shift-Left-Click. or Ctrl-Left-Click, as shown in Figure 3.4.

Figure 3.4

What we end up with is a Tree View as shown in Figure 3.5, where we have imported 4 waveforms.

Figure 3.5

Importing samples is a simple as that! At this stage we almost have our oscillators set up and ready to go. We just need to loop them correctly, and then get down to the business of editing.