The power of sampler

[reticent]

I never knew that one could make amazing sounding pads and leads just by using this instrument and manipulating a short sound clip.. I find it easier than say Operator or Analog.. easier to sculpt sounds..

What are you guys' thoughts?

[bastien]

I still get plenty of mileage from getting sound and doing unusual stuff with the warp markers and algorithms. It's a bit hit-and-miss though.

[ttilberg]

LOL reticent!

I literally made almost this exact same post yesterday! I was playing with squeezing wave forms out of regular samples, and made some amazing sounds basses. Unfortunately in Sampler (the more powerful of the two) you cannot automate or map loop start/end positions, except for a hacky way of doing it on LFO2. The reasoning from Ableton is because Simpler was built to load 1 single sample into RAM, wheras Sampler was built to load massive multi GB sampler libraries, meaning the samples are mostly being read directly from HD, where changing your start/end times isn't as friendly to audio clicks and dropouts.

There are people requesting this feature in the L9 beta forum. If you have access and agrees with this sentiment, please +1 the topic over there!