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Hello Everyone Ive been thinking about creating a simple plug-in app that would work with ableton live.

what it does and how it works

The user chooses number of columns and number of rows ( basic layout of ableton live grids )

Then it auto populates each grid space randomly with a sample from the sound pool.

The sound pool is a single folder filled with samples.

Now this is just in theory. I'm looking at creating a app that would perform this basic concept. any suggestions would be helpful. Even a text based script thats runs while live is running would be fine to.

Thanks

You can already do that(and much more) with Sampler.

are there any tutorials out there on how to get the sampler to load a random audio sample. Thanks

No, it cant do that.

Loading isn't easy. Random play back from a preloaded pool is. Here's 3 methods.
1) drag a folder of samples into sampler. Go to sample selector and set it to distribute ranges equally. Go to lfo 2 or 3, set the wave to random and the destination to sample selector 100%. Set retrigger and rate to what ever works.
2) drag a folder of samples onto drum rack. Put a random midi device before it and set it to have a really big range in random mode.
3) drag loads of samples into a track and set them all to loop and any, choose a good interval

Right and zone select in sampler. But loading or what he first asked isnt possible without max4live or a script. Plus I am guessing he wants to set up a random grid for launchpad or mpc style stuff.
For that I would go with Drum Rack, samplers and what oddstep said above in 1 or 2. And search for "Drum Racks Diesel" that loaded stuff randomly from a folder into 25 drum racks I believe.