Sampler How-To

[flanneljammies]

Can anyone point me to a tutorial or overview of how to set up the built-in sampler and assign keys to control the triggers?
I've been goofing around with Slifty, but I think all I really need is the stripped-down T sampler. Thanks.

[johnsholme]

open an instance of the sampler "filter". Touch it with your mouse, and the sampler dialog will open on the bottom of your screen. From there, to the left of the sampler, you'll see the "add..." button. Click it and browse for samples. Try something basic, a string sample, or a one shot from an acid library or something... anyway. open a sample, and you'll see a green arrow, surrounded by two corresponding/connected "range" arrows. The green arrow is your root note, and the white connected arrows are your range... you can drag any of these three points, anywhere on the keyboard... possibly the coolest sampler ever, in terms of simplicity! i love it man... and i just figured it out a couple weeks ago... you can add multi samples quite easily too. Remember, whatever you touch with your mouse will open up it's corresponding menu. Hope that helps a little... be cool

[Lunch Money]

Triggers for what? The samples?

Check it out:

1. Drag'n'drop or use the sampler dialogue to import a sample.

2. The sample appears in the list of samples, and is automatically assigned to... C2? It has 3 little arrows coming out from it. One pointing to the root note, and 1 on either side pointing to the range of keys.

3. If you want only one key to trigger this sample, drag the 'root' arrow to the correct key, and then line up all 3 keys so they are pointing at the same key.


[edit: bah, was beat to the punch!]

Also note the "ignore release" toggle. If you know you will always want the selected sample to play all the way through, enable this toggle. Otherwise, it will stop playback with key release.

Greg

[C00kie]

Whatever they say, thats all OK

Just one addition: Tracktion has a weird non-standard definition of what notes C0 and C5 actually are. You have to play around a bit at first with root key assignment whilst playing your midi keyboard. Once you have found where your sample is set on the keyboard, its a breeze...

[flanneljammies]

You have to play around a bit at first with root key assignment whilst playing your midi keyboard. Once you have found where your sample is set on the keyboard, its a breeze...

I just used the "mash the keys until sound comes out" method... I fired up the T sampler last night and, indeed, it was a breeze to add some found sounds to a rhythm track. I also was impressed by the ability to non-destructively try different quantize amounts to tighten up my sloppiness. Thanks all. You guys are great.

[valley]

Whatever they say, thats all OK

Just one addition: Tracktion has a weird non-standard definition of what notes C0 and C5 actually are. You have to play around a bit at first with root key assignment whilst playing your midi keyboard. Once you have found where your sample is set on the keyboard, its a breeze...

that's dependent on what you have set mid-c to be in your settings, IIRC.