a cheap quick dirty sampler, I need ideas

Johnisfaster · Post by **Johnisfaster** » Fri Jan 05, 2007 3:11 am

also, anyone know if those electribe samplers can save up a crap load of single shot noises? I'm not really interested in slicing features it has but I want to be able to sample my nord noises into it and sequence those in a single shot type way.

jbuonacc · Post by **jbuonacc** » Fri Jan 05, 2007 4:05 am

Johnisfaster wrote:I've heard of sampling delay pedals for guitar, are there any that have a trigger input so I could send a peak signal out of my computer into the 1/4 inch jack as a trigger?

I don't want just a looping device at all I want to be able to control things.

something like this?

Boss RSD-10 Sampling Delay, these are pretty cool. i used to have almost all of these Boss half-racks, they are the shit. wish i still had them all, one of the many worst moves of my life. i never tried it, but i guess you can run the output back into the pitch control for some crazy sounds. Autechre used on of these back in the day. from their wikipedia entry (if that means anything)...

"... They emphasize that their sound comes from combinations of tools and techniques, and "creative routing", more than any single magical machine, although many of their tools possess unusual capabilities. This has been the case since their early days, when, for example, they used a Boss delay that had a pitch/trigger input, allowing it to be used as a realtime sampler. When the square wave input it received for determining pitch had resonance added, the pitch would drift between notes in a special way. If the output was mixed back in as a control pitch, it could produce unusual fractal patterns, something that cannot be recreated easily with software, or on an embedded system."

as far as the ES-1, etc - i'm pretty sure they can do what you need, i'd be suprised if they can't.

Johnisfaster · Post by **Johnisfaster** » Fri Jan 05, 2007 4:14 am

I saw that page too, although it didn't seem to mention what delay there were using

itook4lefts · Post by **itook4lefts** » Fri Jan 05, 2007 11:01 am

robin wrote:
I suggested that above, I've got one. It's great.

sorry mate, didn't see that.

robin wrote:
Johnisfaster wrote: c loops looks cool but there is no midi for it, and I'd like to be able to tweak the sample start and end points on the fly
Fair enough, though for most loops it gets things spot on (and the new Soundbit Micro has midi).

that's a cool idea, though it looks a bit too much like a TV remote. it only does the midi clock stuff though, right? it would be way cooler if you could independently gate the four loops using seperate midi sequences.

sorry jon. i'm not trying to jack your thread.

noisetonepause · Post by **noisetonepause** » Fri Jan 05, 2007 4:12 pm

Johnisfaster wrote:also, anyone know if those electribe samplers can save up a crap load of single shot noises? I'm not really interested in slicing features it has but I want to be able to sample my nord noises into it and sequence those in a single shot type way.

Sampling is more than just a little convoluted on them, though. You could really do it when people are watching... takes too long.

You can easily change the sound of a part in real-time, though. Easy peasy. But you have to stop playback to save a pattern... and if you don't save, it'll be lost if you move to another one. They're good, but not perfect, for live use.