What you are talking about is called resynthesis. There are a few ways to accomplish this and you will get different results
I have been fascinated by this for a long time and have tried pretty much every available plugin (I think anyway)
My top 3 recommendations are as follows
1.) HALion7
They use a method called "Spectral Synthesis" there is some kind of proprietary secret sauce happening in the background that I can't find any answers about (and I have looked very hard). Without any hesitation I can say that HALion7 does the best job of accurately using resynthesis to reproduce the timbre of the samples especially within a few octaves of it. If you load in a sample at the upper octave and go to play it at a lower octave you will get some weirdness, which if course can be exploited of weirdness is your goal. Sample at around middle C and have four octaves or more of good sample playback. You can of course transform the sample into something else but if your goal is accurate reproduction of the original material HALion7 is the best by far
2.)Dawesome Myth and it's free little sister Zyklop.
These do a phenomenal job of using resynthesis to load the sample in a way that can be transformed into something else. I can not stress enough how phenomenal it is at that
3.) Arturia Synclavier V
This is Arturia's of the early 1980s synth power house the Synclavier II. It was the first commercial product that could use resynthesis. Of course back then it cost more than an average middle class house. It uses a process called "Fourier transform theory" that analyzes your sample at certain points that you set up and turns them into additive synth patches based on their harmonic structure and then plays them back in order morphing from one to another. This will give you very different results than the other two and sounds amazing in its own way. It uses the original code for this and often times have errors and mistakes which can be happy accidents to cool sounds
I have been fascinated by this for a long time and have tried pretty much every available plugin (I think anyway)
My top 3 recommendations are as follows
1.) HALion7
They use a method called "Spectral Synthesis" there is some kind of proprietary secret sauce happening in the background that I can't find any answers about (and I have looked very hard). Without any hesitation I can say that HALion7 does the best job of accurately using resynthesis to reproduce the timbre of the samples especially within a few octaves of it. If you load in a sample at the upper octave and go to play it at a lower octave you will get some weirdness, which if course can be exploited of weirdness is your goal. Sample at around middle C and have four octaves or more of good sample playback. You can of course transform the sample into something else but if your goal is accurate reproduction of the original material HALion7 is the best by far
2.)Dawesome Myth and it's free little sister Zyklop.
These do a phenomenal job of using resynthesis to load the sample in a way that can be transformed into something else. I can not stress enough how phenomenal it is at that
3.) Arturia Synclavier V
This is Arturia's of the early 1980s synth power house the Synclavier II. It was the first commercial product that could use resynthesis. Of course back then it cost more than an average middle class house. It uses a process called "Fourier transform theory" that analyzes your sample at certain points that you set up and turns them into additive synth patches based on their harmonic structure and then plays them back in order morphing from one to another. This will give you very different results than the other two and sounds amazing in its own way. It uses the original code for this and often times have errors and mistakes which can be happy accidents to cool sounds
Statistics: Posted by IvyBirds — Wed Jan 15, 2025 11:23 pm