Seems like everybody does a lot of bending and then sampling the results. Hmmm. That's exactly how I work.
Makes me wonder if anybody has any tips for a faster workflow when sampling. I use Ableton Live, and I just record a bunch of stuff onto one audio track and then auto-slice it with the exceptional "Slice to new MIDI" function. Any reason to buy an additional sampling VST? I would like to share my samples with other folks but I don't want to make .WAV or .AIFF files, I would just put up the .adg instrument files for Ableton users. I think this would work...If anybody has any tips, please let me know, and if anybody wants some samples, I'd be happy to send you the instrument files for Ableton, unless someone lets me know about a stupidly easy way to make .wav files en masse.
I'm also wondering...since everyone here seems to bend for studio use, does that impact the control layout, etc, of your piece? I am really interested in the aesthetics of certain benders (Kaiser, Gij Gieskes, and...Please don't hate me...the wooden end cheeks on S-CAT's stuff). Does the fact that you dont' take your stuff out to gig make you focus on the aesthetics more? Less?
I know there's been a lot of questions posed here...sorry!