Automated Sampling???

[Kim Lajoie]

Not sure which forum to put this in, but anyway...

I want to multisample one of my hardsynths note-by-note, but it's too tedious. Basically, I need a program that'll spit notes out my MIDI port, and simultaneously record a wave file (giving it the name of the note that was sent out the MIDI port, eg C3).

Surely some software like this exists? Surely someone here knows about it? Surely it's free??

Forever,




Kim.

[AndreasE]

With Chainer you can multisample or export to soundfont your instruments outputs very easily.

EDIT: Sorry, I re-read your post - it´s only for softsynths.

[Mister Gibson]

With Chainer you can multisample or export to soundfont your instruments outputs very easily.

Please explain...

[McLilith]

Basically, I need a program that'll spit notes out my MIDI port, and simultaneously record a wave file (giving it the name of the note that was sent out the MIDI port, eg C3).

I've been thinking about the same thing, but I would also like the software to set the "root note" setting in the appropriate header of the WAV file, in addition to simply naming the file appropriately. While we're at it, why don't we have the software play the complete range of notes at several different velocity settings as well? We could finish this wish list by adding an option to output a velocity-layered multi-sample file, in the format of our choice. (I'd settle for the Soundfont format, because just about anything could read or translate that format.)

It's a pity that setting loop points can't be easily automated, but I guess we have to leave something for humans to do.

[AndreasE]

With Chainer you can multisample or export to soundfont your instruments outputs very easily.

Please explain...

It´s well documented in the included help/manual file of Chainer.

[Rozzer]

There is a program called SampleMove, which looks like just the ticket, however the official website is down.

I wouldn't hold your breath really. I emailed these guys about a year ago about Samplemove and never recieved a reply. They had no demo, and I was warned against dealing with them from someone on the Akai mailing list. As a result of all this I never bought the product (it was $99). And now they seem to have disappeared.


If you find anything else, please let me know. I've been looking for something this for a while now.

R zzer

[arguru]

'Highlife' does this automatically with VSTi's and I have plans to do it aswell with midi/wave MME API, so it could also sample hardware synthesizers.

Coming soon,

stay tuned.

[Rozzer]

Sounds great !!

R zzer

[xoxos]

synthedit.. atm can't be done with the native recorder because you'd have to manually change the name.. or did dh come up with some recorder that would work?

[Kim Lajoie]

synthedit?

If I'm going to code it myself, I'll use Max/MSP (because that's what I know)... but I can see that taking me a couple of hours. I'd rather not do that if there's already some software designed for the task.

No need to reinvent the wheel.

Forever,




Kim.

[analoguesque]

Mmm, unfortunately I jumped out of programming sound stuff a long while ago, but I feel your pain.

I wrote a software app in VB (verrrry slow) which could output hybrid 4-op FM and analog samples direct to disk at any desired interval. It took about half and hour to generate 5 octaves of a complex sound with every 2nd note, but it did work.

It automated the loops but not the root keys - well, at least the wav files were output with the relevant key information, which would work well for Emulator X since it can load samples and set the root key according to info in the file name!!

Damn, I wish I had kept that code!!!!!!!

Ian