can I sample

[Travis Thompson]

Can I sample with the receptor.

[snooky]

ask god

[keyman_sam]

kvr IS god.

[Travis Thompson]

Thank you for your thoughtful insight

Signed

New receptor owner

I hope the whole receptor community is as helpful as you are.

[ajswanson]

You can certainly PLAY samples from any number of sample players that work on the Receptor. I suppose you could even rig it to record samples but that would be a bit more difficult. Thats not how it designed to run.

Perhaps you can be more specific as to what you want to do.

[gregh1]

Receptor has very good audio hardware, and you could record samples with it, as some owners do when they use live looping plugins.

The difficulty would probably be in editing the samples on Receptor itself, although you could easily copy them to your PC or Mac, edit them, then copy them back to Receptor.

[FYI: I'm a long-time Fairlight CMI owner.]

[lordvader48]

The Receptor is perfectly capable of sampling. The trouble is that Steinberg, NI and the other vendors of VST instruments have released only "crippleware" samplers. None of these so-called "softsamplers" have sampling, sample editing, or drag-and-drop to/from your VST host. These "softsamplers" aren't really samplers at all. They are just loop/sample "jukeboxes", that allow you to play finished soundbanks or build programs with fully-edited samples.

Hardware samplers are still indispensable for this reason. DirectWave from Image-Line is the most advanced "softsampler", and it does sample AND it has drag-and-drop, but I don't think it runs on Receptor yet.

[Travis Thompson]

Thank you to everyone who answered my question. I am new to the whole plug-in thing. I am looking foward to this discussion forum.

Thanks again and God bless

Travis

[ajswanson]

But if you are simply trying to PLAY BACK samples...Then the Receptor is a mighty fine tool for that. A mighty fine tool.

There are better tools for acquiring or recording samples and then editing them and such. But once they are in a format that a Receptorized (or Unsupported) application can read, you are set to go.

[Bryan@MuseResearch]

Funny you should bring this up... we were just talking about thisin the office the other night. I am not aware of any sampling plug-ins that sample. This is the zen of the plugin world.

However, every sampler I know of accepts .WAV and .AIFF files, so fire up your trusty recording app (even thost nifty pocket records write to .WAV!) and when you've sampled what you want, you can drag and drop the samples you've created into the "samples" folder on Receptor's hard drive.

At that point, you simply import the sample into your sampler. I use Kontakt, and I'm actually fairly amazed at how easy it is... you use the browser to navigate to the file, REMEMBERING that you have to HIGHLIGHT the name of the FOLDER where the samples reside in order to SEE THEM.

Then you just drag the sample over into the instrument window, and voila, instant sample. From there, it is a remarkably intuitive task to assign the sample to whatever range you want (this is SO much easier than the days of old, speaking of my dear old and retired Emulator 4, where you can spend an awful amount of time getting samples assigned properly).

of course you can group samples and apply all sorts of effects, envelopes, filters and the like to your samples which of course makes the sampler useful, but even as an audio file player, it is really easy to get it to work. I know of several customers who bring in long pro tools files and use the sampler to playback the audio on their Receptor... much easier than hauling a PT rig around with you...

I believe that sfx (freeware) on Receptor also reads .WAV files, and all you have to to is navigate to it, and voila, instant sample playback.

It is a pity that samplers don't sample. The inputs on Receptor are really very good, and its a shame to relegate them to effects processing only...

Hope this helps. And thanks for buying a Receptor

Regards

Groovology (Bryan)
Yes, I work for Muse Research