Advice needed....Riffworks & samplers

[TheDoc]

I'm a great fan of Line6 product but !'ve just bought the stand-alone version of Riffworks, and running it with Gearbox. I've used various other music packages and the result is I'm sitting on a large number of CDs with synth samplers, guitar, keyboards, drums....you name it.
Can these be loaded into Riffworks and used within a track or song.

Hope someone can help,
Cheers

[camaro24gold]

If the samples are in REX format they can be loaded into the REX players (4 slots) in RiffWorks. If they are wav files they can be converted to REX but you will need Propellerhead's software entitled Recycle to do so.
Another way to use them would be in an application that supports your samples and that can also work as a ReWire slave application to RiffWorks.

[bluesydude]

What ReWire slave apps are available that will allow one to load and play a wav file?

[camaro24gold]

Ableton Live 6

[camaro24gold]

Also Reason load wave in samplers

[bluesydude]

Thanks.

[hbursk]

Ableton would be better because you could alter tempo without altering pitch. In Reason, the only way to alter tempo without altering pitch is to use a REX file, which mentioned above, requires Recycle to create.

And...if you bought a Toneport in order to use your Gearbox there, then Ableton Live Lite Line6 edition is included free and allows you to use four tracks of audio. So that's four wav samples per RiffWorks song, for free. Pretty good.

[bluesydude]

I was looking at more like being able to load a wav file as a backing track not as a sample or loop. Like a 3 minute wav.

[camaro24gold]

Ableton is the way to go as hbursk mentioned....the "warping" of waves will be quit the trip and delight to deal with and is a wonderful tool of Ableton.
I am still learning this all myself...Albeton can do some amazing timing functions with its "Warping" abilities. It also can function in ReWire Master and Slave Modes.

I am using a RiffWorks/Albeton/Reason combo as my DAW package right now and love the combinations with the three.

As far as the size of the loop...in Albeton, a whole song can be that.....or not if you choose not to loop...blah blah blah

Good luck on all this and hope we helped ya out on some of this

[bluesydude]

Very insightful. Thanks to all.

[strat]

b.dude,,i go from my headphone out of my L.6 device[g.port] into the input of my L.6 device{g.port} with a no amp setting,roll out enuf measures and go..i record any sound i want into R.Works..theirs other ways but thats the way i do it...

[bluesydude]

Thanks, strat. I'll have to play around with that.

[TheDoc]

Thank's for all the advicee everybody......I'll bet Bluesydude was glad I asked

[bluesydude]

Thank's for all the advicee everybody......I'll bet Bluesydude was glad I asked

Yes, Doc, I am. I had thought about it before just hadn't gotten around to asking. Thanks for looking out for me.