Free browser app takes the pain out of drum sampling
A Finnish drummer and chilli pepper grower has built a free, browser-based sample slicer that could change the way e-drummers approach custom sampling. Jukka “Fatalii” Kilpinen, best known in hot pepper circles for his eponymous seed company, has spent four decades behind a kit and the last 20-odd years on electronic drums. His current set-up centres on a Pearl mimicPRO brain driving a converted Pearl acoustic kit with mesh heads and Drone triggers. When he moved to the mimic, he wanted to fill gaps in its library with his own samples — mini-timbales, octobans, rototoms — and quickly hit the wall that stops most drummers from going further. “Anyone who has done deep multi-velocity, multi-round-robin sampling knows the editing is […]