[sdiy] DIY -ish Sampler modules?

[Gordon JC Pearce]

On Sat, 2011-02-12 at 16:44 -0800, legion at helpwantedproductions.com
wrote:
> I have always been interested in VC sampler type units. Over the years
> there have been many very cool delay units which can *kind of* do sampling
> (Modcan Digital delay and CV recorder come to my mind since I'm a Modcan A
> format aficionado). But outside of the Doepfer A112 Wavetable/Sampler  I
> don't know of any modular synth oriented samplers let alone anything DIY.
> 
> Does anyone know of any kits or PCBs currently in production that could
> fit the broad category of CV type sampler?
> 
> Along the same lines if there are any currently manufactured modules by
> some cool ass Modular start-up that I'm unaware of in the past few years
> I'd love to be educated on what the kids are up to these days :)
> 
> FWIW I'm not as interested in on the fly sampling as much as real-time
> modulation of sample frequency, start/stop times, looping, etc.  To that
> end if someone has a brutally raw DIY plan of some weird children's toy or
> other mechanism which could be converted to such a nefarious purpose I'm
> all ears too :)
> 
> 
> Thanks for any/all help.
> 
> D_

It's fairly easy to implement a simple sampler using an Arduino, if you
can live with a sample about 24k long and 8-bit ;-)

Have a look at looper, here:
https://github.com/gordonjcp/gyoza

Gordon MM0YEQ