very important ?????? about acid pro

[reversalofman]

ok lets see if i can ask this right, ok so i am taking drum samples off of a cd. and i want to sample just the kick drum, snare drum, toms, and cymbals....i have found parts in different songs where i can go about taking these samples from. obviously there is no background noise and it is just the drum i want at that specific time. but the only time i can get a clear bass drum and snare sound is at the beginning of the album, and it is a drum fill right before the rest of the band comes in. so it is the only time the drums are played by themselves, and each hit of the drum is very close together, so they dont resonate and i cant get a long enough sample, ok, so my question..... if i have a snare sound that gets cut off short(because there is a bass drum immediatley after it), how can i add more to the sample to make it resonate or fully make the sound of the snare. i have tried adding reverb and that helps alittle bit, or even delay, and i have doubled the track and moved it over to make the snare longer but then it sounds too fake....if anybody knows what i am talking about, please help me, i love these drum sounds and i would to use them.
thanx

[TeeCee]

First off, this isn't an Acid question and if you don't get a lot of answers with this topic name, start a new topic. Or if you can, rename this topic "Using Drum Samples From Music" or something. Please do not create another topic right now so you have two threads of the same thing going on.

It ain't going to be perfect. If you are using recycled samples, I would think you didn't want it to be.

You can try dumping the samples in Sound Forge and time stretching them.

You can try to get a clean, short loop within each sample, copy, and paste, paste, paste... And by short, I mean maybe 1/1000 of a second. You can then fade teh result out to make it sound real.

You can try making a double time beat in Acid, render it as a loop, re-import it as a new track and set the BPMs double. This would stretch out the parts.

You can get a CD full of one shots made to be used in exactly the way you are trying to work.

You can hit up the Acid forums at Sonic Foundry where you'll probably get answers from tons of people that may or may not have a clue.

Good luck,