Creative sampling is a really useful technique and can be used to add interest to just about any track. You can take any sample you want and make it sound ten times better by warping, stretching and even completely destroying it using a sampler.
Many DAWs have built-in samplers that allow you to change stuff like pitch, start/end points and the overall texture of a sound. Automating these controls throughout your tracks can give you some nice evolving textures that can really add something special to the project that you’re working on.
Minimal house is a prime example of a genre that heavily relies on creative sample manipulation. As the name suggests the genre is very minimal, so when your working with a minimal track you don’t really have a lot of sounds to work with.
Working with a short sample (such as the vocal sample in the video below) and using automation on certain parameters can take a boring old sound and transform it into something original to you.
In the video below we see Danny Lewis from Point Blank using Ableton Live’s Simpler instrument to create a glitched-out vocal texture to compliment a basic minimal house track.
