Sampler Design

[cannc]

Hello folks,

I’m a long max user and I just decided to get a monome(also recently discovered lines, it rocks!) to integrate with my thesis, a sampler. I’d like to hear your thoughts on it, as in what would you want/do to make it somewhat exclusive sampler. I’m capable of writing externals to max and my plan was to design a filter, maybe an adaptive filter.

But now with a monome, i believe that I can extend it beyond a filter design. Does anyone happen to have cool and try-hard idea? (both musically or technically(DSP))

PS: Can share the patch if anyone is interested

Cheers!

[glia]

Idea for sampling device

I was watching a video explaining how information is written to a hard disc drive. The video explains that the data is made up of small vectors of magnetic information, when the direction of that information changes, it sends a voltage spike that is read as a “1” no change is read as a “0” . so something like " ->-><->->-<-<- " would be read as 011010. The video explains that in order to increase density of data on the disc you have to make the vectors smaller, by consequence, the analog signa…

[tehn]

be sure to check out the most excellent karma~ !!

looking forward to seeing what you come up with.

Karma~ 1.0 (sampler/looper external for Max)

Here it is. Finally… I am incredibly proud to present karma~, a dynamically lengthed, varispeed record/playback looper external for Max. karma~ was lovingly coded by raja, and I can’t thank him enough for taking the project on! The linear interpolation used in the recording stage of karma~ is based on ipoke~ by Pierre Alexandre Tremblay. You can read about it (and it’s background) here: http://www.rodrigoconstanzo.com/2015/05/karma/ Or download it, along with the code here: http://www.rod…

[Rodrigo]

karma~ is my ‘dream sampler’, so pretty happy with it, hehe.

The one weak spot it has, which isn’t so much a concern for me personally, is syncing. Towards that end I know @CrackaAttacka is working on a whole sampling/looping toolkit which should be mindblowing. (essentially a lego kit version of karma~ and related tech/tools).

That being said, my main interest in samplers is:

varispeed (recording/playback)
position/window playback parameters
overdub/replace modes

There’s tons of kickass features in things like the Oberheim/Gibson Echoplex (and subsequently SooperLooper), like multiply and things like that, so that stuff is worth looking at too.

[cannc]

Rodrigo, I checked karma~ and i’m amazed, good work really. I forgot to mention that the very core of my project started with an old school Ensoniq ASR-10. I actually studied it and made a somehow similar sampler system with using groove~ object.

Everything is pretty much implemented except a filter, still using biquad~ for it. But I will definetily try to embed karma~ into it and see how it goes from there on.

[Rodrigo]

The code for karma~ is available here if you’re wanting to build an external based on the stuff:

rconstanzo/karma