someone needs to do this. i didn’t know the blofeld had a sample player, might have to look into getting one of those. been wondering what i should spend all these stimbucks on. on that note, i have been trying to decide what i would need in hardware form to accomplish my sort of abstract workflow goals that i can’t accomplish with my norns/octatrack combo. I was thinking maybe something like morphagene or Arbhar, but i can sort of accomplish cool sample looping with compass/cheat codes/less concepts.
so now i’m wondering if there is something like Angl or Mangl that can record incoming sample audio. I want a granular sampler that can record live from inputs with the same midi control that angl/mangl has to manipulate the audio like elastic.
i’m really struggling, even with the octatrack and norns, to figure out the best way to mangle samples live. lately ive been using pickup machines and cueing that audio out to norns and then back into a flex machine that resamples and plays back the audio with p lock trigs but it still doesn’t seem as practical or as intuitively controllable as using ableton to edit and structure/piece together short samples that have been granulated and placed on a timeline. maybe that’s the point,and i understand that, but i would really like to be able to do that without a computer, and it doesn’t seem impossible. this might all be due to my inability to think in a big picture sort of perspective.
one way i was thinking would be to grab a simple sampler with some flexible effects like a sp404 then run that through norns live and then into the octatrack to structure. but i find it hard to structure non-beat oriented stuff in the octatrack. it would be cool to be able to freely trigger and record longer samples with something like the sp404. i really loved the sound of the es-1 when i had one, but it was only for very small audio files, which isnt a dealbreaker, but it wasn’t very flexible for the kind of thing i’m trying to do and although it’s adc sounded incredible, it wasn’t really capable of doing high quality sample playback.
And this may already exist and im just not aware, but if i could get a norns script that could easily trigger slightly longer samples (multiple, like with a big folder directory like orca/timber handles sample loading), but also internally resample audio form the inputs and then granulate it with mid mappable parameters like angl, i think that would solve my problem. I previously was thinking a clone of a granular module like the popular eurorack ones would be cool, but now im thinking something that could record and flexibly perform samples would be even more useful. because there are arguably even cooler loopers in norns than what exists currently in the eurorack sphere
