The actual sampling part was pretty easy into Propellerhead Record, and I used my standard signal path for sampling: ADL D.I./Neve/UA-2192, from a Roland TR-808 bestowed to me from composer, Stuart Diamond The initial sampling resulted in over 500 individual audio files. This is probably overkill, but I approached this from an archival perspective and wanted a lot of detail. For example the bass drum required sampling 6 different tone settings, with a normal hit and accent hit at seven or eight different decay settings. This involved selectively sampling variations of each sound. The primary goal was to create a set of Kong patches that effectively simulate the classic 808. I thought this would be easy… Sample the Roland TR-808, load the files into the Reason 5 Kong Drum Designer… Bam… done! Nope, that definitely is not how things went down.
