hi, i'm kenny. one thing i found isthat sometimes the best thing to sample is the space inbetween the actual notes. today i got my keyboard hooked up throughsome cool reverb and delay pedals to give us a nice tail to mess with. now instead of using the 'attack'we're gonna go further into the sound and use just the little bit of the tailwhere all the cool fuzz and texture is. by then taking this little piece of the tailinto a simpler, we have a really interesting,ethereal-sounding pad.
this trick can also be applied to drums. sometimes i'll take a drum-break and deleteall the actual hits just leaving the space inbetween the drums. i can then take those little bits of ambienceand add more texture to my own drum sounds. once it all comes together, these subtle thingsare really what help the whole groove sync.