KVR Audio

AnalogGuy1 · Post by **AnalogGuy1** » Wed Jan 21, 2015 9:14 pm

I've been asked to do several demonstrations for middle school students involving audio, and I'd like a recommendation for a VERY easy to use sampler that would let me quickly record a student's voice, and then be able to reply it at different pitches along a keyboard.

I'm an actively-gigging keyboardist, and I own Kontakt 5, but man, it takes way too long to do what I need in Kontakt. I'm looking for something that lets me press a "record" button, have a student say "Hello", then press "stop" button and have the recorded sample automapped to C4.

It doesn't have to be free and can be standalone or hosted, but has to be very fast and simple to use. I've scanned the VST database, but I don't see anything targeted for simple real-time samplers.

Any ideas?

Jace-BeOS · Post by **Jace-BeOS** » Wed Jan 21, 2015 9:28 pm

GarageBand on iOS? I have a few projects in mine with fart noises, rocking chair creaking, and other impulsively sampled noises as instruments...

AnalogGuy1 · Post by **AnalogGuy1** » Wed Jan 21, 2015 10:23 pm

Fart noise = impulsive sample

I should have said: I'm on a Windows system. Otherwise, I agree: GB rocks.

Jace-BeOS · Post by **Jace-BeOS** » Wed Jan 21, 2015 10:38 pm

Oh, sorry then. Hm. I honestly can't think of a super speedy audio sampler on Windows or Mac. iOS GarageBand is the most immediate thing I've used (the same sampler doesn't exist in the desktop version, does it?).

Do you have Cakewalk Sonar? They used to include, in Sonar, the sampler from one of their lower range music products in Sonar but I can't think of the name of that product or the sampler. It was very much like iOS's GarageBand in its immediacy. I think it was powered by the RGC Audio developer.

It's funny how simple cheap tools are quick to give immediate results and the big expensive monstrous capability tools are slow to get results with (though more powerful).

Jace-BeOS · Post by **Jace-BeOS** » Wed Jan 21, 2015 10:39 pm

Ableton Live's Simpler was pretty quick to use, if I recall correctly.

AnalogGuy1 · Post by **AnalogGuy1** » Wed Jan 21, 2015 10:45 pm

Simpler: I could easily get Ableton LE since it's distributed with midi controllers. Does Simpler handle the recording also, or would I have to record an audio track to Live, and then drop it into Simpler? (Not that that's hard, but would love it to be "simpler" still).

zvon · Post by **zvon** » Wed Jan 21, 2015 11:22 pm

Caustic from Single Cell Software should do what you want, and the Win version of this soft studio is free. Its built-in audio editor can also record and you can then then import the sample into one of its 3 sampler machines (modules): the PCMSynth (traditional sampler), BeatBox (drum machine) and Vocoder.

http://singlecellsoftware.com/caustic

AnalogGuy1 · Post by **AnalogGuy1** » Wed Jan 21, 2015 11:44 pm

Caustic: Thanks; am checking it out now!

thecontrolcentre · Post by **thecontrolcentre** » Wed Jan 21, 2015 11:56 pm

TX16W
http://www.tx16wx.com/

Shortcircuit
http://vemberaudio.se/shortcircuit.php

Load them in SAVIHost for standalone sampling.
http://www.hermannseib.com/english/savihost.htm

AnalogGuy1 · Post by **AnalogGuy1** » Thu Jan 22, 2015 4:49 pm

Thanks; am trying to wrap my head around TX16W now. Not very simple, but if I can figure out how to quickly map a recorded sample from its wave editor across the keyboard in its keyboard mapping editor without having to first save the thing to a file, I have a winner!

Jace-BeOS · Post by **Jace-BeOS** » Thu Jan 22, 2015 7:09 pm

AnalogGuy1 wrote:Simpler: I could easily get Ableton LE since it's distributed with midi controllers. Does Simpler handle the recording also, or would I have to record an audio track to Live, and then drop it into Simpler? (Not that that's hard, but would love it to be "simpler" still).

I'm uncertain, but I suspect the latter, not the former (record into a track, save to disk, load into Simpler). Online manuals will tell for sure. But it looks like you may have found a better option anyway

AnalogGuy1 · Post by **AnalogGuy1** » Thu Jan 22, 2015 7:13 pm

No, it actually seems that all the VST samplers that can record an audio snippet require you to first save it to disk and then import it into a keyboard mapper. Makes me think there must be something that electronic DJ's have access to that let them do this kind of thing instantly.

rnd44 · Post by **rnd44** » Thu Aug 25, 2022 6:29 am

It's an old thread but I'm searching for that software, too. As far as I know KOALA (smartphone app) let's you do that and I love it

Tj Shredder · Post by **Tj Shredder** » Thu Aug 25, 2022 2:25 pm

I did that sort of thing with the sampler module in Cherry Audio’s Voltage Modular… Its a separate purchase but not really expensive…
DJs might use something like Serato Sample, but that sample isn’t playable with a standard Midi keyboard, its meant to be replayed by pads on the same pitch…

n9research · Post by **n9research** » Fri Sep 09, 2022 11:04 am

rnd44 wrote: Thu Aug 25, 2022 6:29 am It's an old thread but I'm searching for that software, too. As far as I know KOALA (smartphone app) let's you do that and I love it

A live sampler with basic pitched playback across a note spread would be pretty simple to rig up in VCV Rack (standalone - free, plugin - commercial)

You could then easily expand that with whatever else you need (filtering, fx, modulation, etc etc)

I just built a live looper fx in Rack using the Nysthi Simpliciter module and some basic logic modules:

simple operation:
hold a specific midi note to record the input
release the note to stop recording and loop playback, replacing the input
press a different specific midi note to clear the looper and restore the live input

this same module can also do pitched playback as it has a cv input to the varispeed control.

Recommend simple, live-recording sampler?