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Just so I'm explicitly clear here - when I play a sample using a note that is not the root note (where the sample was originally recorded), I want musolomo to behave like a dumb hardware sampler, ie just play the sample back at a lower sample rate, without any granular resynthesis to preserve the sample length/tempo.
So if the root note of the sample is C4, sampled at 44100Hz, and I play C3, I'd expect to have the sample played back at 22050Hz - an octave lower and twice as long.
Re:More feature requests... - 2005/03/23 21:13John, that's so.....old school
The ADSR thing would be great, I think. Variable velocity curves get my vote, too. Might I suggest all the arcane stuff live ONLY in the menu controls (accessible in both Live and Logic, I don't know about other apps, though), and not the main plug GUI. I mean, no sense in wasting valuable space, hehe. Your app has the right idea, i.e. it takes up a minimum of space. Is there any way to have more than one GUI view in an AU? (e.g. minimized and full, but both GUI and not basic menu?)
Re:More feature requests... - 2005/03/24 00:13amounra, could you talk about how ADSR could be useful to you? aside from turning musolomo into a 'proper sampler'... i mean there are lots of proper samplers around.
I'm just trying to understand how ADSR could help musolomo, and how would you control it live in an innovative way (most adsr's seem very mechanical to me - fixed time decay stuff)
in terms of the GUI, we would not make two versions. We'd rather make a good single version. you can have it in any colour as long as it is black
Re:More feature requests... - 2005/03/24 13:41songcarver wrote: amounra, could you talk about how ADSR could be useful to you? aside from turning musolomo into a 'proper sampler'... i mean there are lots of proper samplers around.
But not REALTIME proper samplers. Not as AU plugins.
My sampling needs are pretty simple, but so far there have been precisely zero plugins able to handle it.
Simple envelope control gets you a surprising amount of expression from what may otherwise be a static sample. It becomes more of an "instrument", ie more playable/expressive.
I'd probably even be happy with a basic AR envelope and improved velocity sensitivity.
Re:More feature requests... - 2005/03/24 16:47Likewise....I don't neccessarily "need" it. But since you mention it, I'm trying to think of how to implement it with a sample with no preset loop points and I can see the difficulty in achieving that (not with AD, but certainly with SR). There would have to be some kind of way to intelligently implement a fixed loop point for the sustain and release automatically, on the fly as it were. Not a must for me, but it would be groovy to have an extra set of parameters to tweak the sample in real time, just to add variation to an existing rhythm or ambient bed.
I can mainly see this as advantageous when using reversed samples of short duration. Otherwise it could get really hairy, and kind of taxing on the processor, I think.
