TX16Wx Software Sampler 2.0 Beta Released - Announching TX16Wx Professional (Updated 2012-10-19)

[audiojunkie]

Is there any "resample" feature planned ?
This could get very handy (with the Pro version)for making a new sample from the mangeld one

I always liked this feature.

--Sean

[sinkmusic]

- Is there any "auto-record" feature (you define a threshold where the recording will start. Veeerrry convenient to hit "record", then move slowly to a drum set, and hit a snare without worrying : the recording will start only when the snare is "heard" by the sampler's input) ?

No, there is only the "record on transport" feature yet. But threshold recording is a coming feature.

Great ! Thank you.

- Do you have any hint for the forthcoming effects ? Will it feature "only" classic stuff (like an eq, compressor, chorus), or do you plan to add also some randomization/FSU/stuttery FX ? And amp simulation or no-latency IR fx (the one in Independance is great, and such an FXis perfect for both giving electric piano samples some vintage feel, and also to boost drum machine samples) ?

Not completely decided, but you should probably expect the classic stock stuff primarily. Wild esoteric effects might be outside the scope a single dev (me) can provide for €20.

Yes, fair enough

[sinkmusic]

Me again : is there any "one shot" play mode (the sample is played once, fully, each time you trigger it) ? It is great for drums.

[lalo]

excellent work!
i've already preodered the pro version to encourage development!

little bug or not implemented feature or error by me.
the filter cutoff does not modulate correctly.
it only changes at note on.

great and creative sampler ( not the boring sample player stuff but the foundation for a serious sample-mangling thing )

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[makerprofaze]

As a workaround for resampling, you could always reroute the output back to the input in the host - with listen OFF. Not as "clean" as an internal algorithm, but would work.

[Jonathan Shepherd]

I'll be preordering come payday this week, most definitely. Runs very smoothly here. A request: in the sample editor, could you make zoom work at the mouse pointer and not at the beginning of the sample? Forgive me if I missed a way for this.
You're really onto something here, thanks!

[makerprofaze]

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[sinkmusic]

One more FR :
Do you have any plan to add FLAC support ?
(The quality should be better than Ogg, but with less HD space reuirement than WAV)

[EvilDragon]

FLAC FTW!

[DarkStar]

The 32 vol+pan will control the first 32 program slots in a performance. This is because these are the only "static" parameters that exist in the TX16Wx. All others are per-group, so you need to use modulation mapping.

To use an automation control, make a mapping entry mapping the auto param->your desired parameter and set the modulation scale. Note that since modulation is additive, you might need for example to set a filter frequency very low by default and then modulate it to raise it to "play level".

Yep, that did it, thank you.

Should the target control (I used the FIlter Cutoff) change visually when I change the parameter in the host? It didn't here, maybe I've missed something. Also, the parameter was still named "Param 00" in the host; should it have the target's name?

[Mac of BIOnighT]

Me again : is there any "one shot" play mode (the sample is played once, fully, each time you trigger it) ? It is great for drums.

Isn't it enough to set the release to maximum length?

[miedex]

Me again : is there any "one shot" play mode (the sample is played once, fully, each time you trigger it) ? It is great for drums.

Isn't it enough to set the release to maximum length?

I asked same thing in private beta forum and there is a simple way to do this:

Select all the groups you want triggered this way (drag select, Ctrl-a for all etc), pick 'oneshot' as trigger mode, and then dial release to max

I still imagine a one shot play mode would be more intuitive and keep the workflow momentum moving forward. The least amount of workaround the better.

[Andywanders]

Just tried it in Reaper and it didn't work - no sound. No time to figure out why at the moment, but after reading this thread and discovering there's no one-shot mode and the knobs are circular, I decided not to bother.

On the plus side... This looks like a potentially great sampler and a generous give-away. The pro version is very reasonably priced too. I'll certainly check this out in the future.

[elcallio]

Is there any "resample" feature planned ?
This could get very handy (with the Pro version)for making a new sample from the mangeld one

I have a lot of ideas for advanced resampling of both internal and external sources. I am doubtful I will be able to fit it into the 2.0 (this fall) time frame though.

[elcallio]

The 32 vol+pan will control the first 32 program slots in a performance. This is because these are the only "static" parameters that exist in the TX16Wx. All others are per-group, so you need to use modulation mapping.

To use an automation control, make a mapping entry mapping the auto param->your desired parameter and set the modulation scale. Note that since modulation is additive, you might need for example to set a filter frequency very low by default and then modulate it to raise it to "play level".

Yep, that did it, thank you.

Should the target control (I used the FIlter Cutoff) change visually when I change the parameter in the host? It didn't here, maybe I've missed something. Also, the parameter was still named "Param 00" in the host; should it have the target's name?

No, its working as designed. Remember that the parameter is not "tied" to the control. It value (from host) is acting as a modulation source for one or more destination parameters, and there is no 1<->1 mapping between them (conceptually).
Auto parameters are treated no different than a MIDI CC or for that matter the output of an LFO.
I realize that for some this might be foreign, being used to software synths where you have a fixed set of parameters. But not even using "program parameters" (decoupling from group -> program) can parameters be easily quantifiable in a completely dynamic multitimbral instrument. Hence the way things work. Each auto parameter can be connected to modulate as few or as many parameters in as many groups as you like.