Curious, what M4L devices can emulate Bitwig's new sampler?

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db120
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Curious, what M4L devices can emulate Bitwig's new sampler?

Post by db120 » Thu Jul 12, 2018 6:06 pm

Can any one M4L device or multiple devices replicate this?

Link has many pics
http://cdm.link/2018/07/bitwig-studio-2 ... r-control/


The re-built Sampler introduces a powerful wavetable/granular instrument. At its heart are multiple modes that combine effectively different instruments and ways of working with sound into a single interface:

“Repitch” / Speed + pitch together: The traditional sampler mode, with negative speeds, too (allowing it to behave the way a record player / record-scratch / tape transport does).

“Cycles” / Speed only: Speed changes, pitches stay the same. There’s also a Formant control, and the ability to switch on and off keyboard tracking. (In other words, you can scale from realistic-sounding speed changes to extreme metallic variations.)

“Textures” / Granular resampling / independent pitch and speed: Granular resynthesis divides up the sound into tiny bits allowing independent pitch and time manipulation (in combination), and textural effects. Independent speed, grain size, and grain motion (randomization) are all available as parameters.

Freeze: Each mode lets you directly manipulate the sample playhead live, using a controller or the Bitwig modulators. That emulates the position of a needle on a record or playhead on a tape, or the position in a granular playback device, depending on mode – and this is in every single mode.

Oh. Okay. Yeah, so those last two are to me the way Ableton Live should have worked from the beginning – and the way a lot of Max, Reaktor, Pd, and SuperCollider patches/code might work – but it’s fantastic to see them in a DAW. This opens up a lot of live performance and production options. If they’ve nailed it, it could be a reason to switch to Bitwig."

pottering
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Re: Curious, what M4L devices can emulate Bitwig's new sampler?

Post by pottering » Thu Jul 12, 2018 7:34 pm

Henke's Granulator.

And you can actually do those "last two" things Peter Kirn claims are not doable, but it takes more work (Racks, MIDI FX and automation).
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Re: Curious, what M4L devices can emulate Bitwig's new sampler?

Post by db120 » Thu Jul 12, 2018 7:56 pm

Somehow, I've not used granulator as much as I should have. Thanks

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