[sdiy] Drum sample playback

Kylee Kennedy kmkennedy at gmail.com
Sat Feb 18 01:40:44 CET 2017


Nicholas, Have you played around with a Music Thing Modular Radio Music
module? You can put it into single shot mode with a simple script swap.
Great module, I usually have two or more in my setup now.

Kylee

On Fri, Feb 17, 2017 at 4:33 PM, Byron G. Jacquot <thescum at surfree.com>
wrote:

> So there's a little bit of a trick to that.  The pitch resampling happens
> per output stream, rather than per playback voice.
>
> We're in the modern era, and fast flash memory is plentiful enough that we
> can easily have a sample per semitone, and not need to spread a single
> sample across intervals.
>
> I had Cold Sweat, Funky Drummer and Amen all playing in synch on the
> prototype, and the shifting artifacts weren't too objectionable.
>
>
> -Byron Jacquot
>
> -----Original Message-----
> >From: Richie Burnett <rburnett at richieburnett.co.uk>
> >Sent: Feb 17, 2017 3:45 PM
> >To: Synth Diy <synth-diy at synth-diy.org>, paula at synth.net
> >Subject: Re: [sdiy] Drum sample playback
> >
> >That's impressive!
> >
> >It's usually the resampling that takes the majority of CPU cycles with
> sample playback. So for a given amount of CPU power you can either have
> tons of voices that alias like hell when you transpose the samples or a
> quarter of those voices with nice clean detuning of the samples. I suspect
> this is where they might have cut corners.
> >
> >Of course if you want to pitch up a Hi-hat sample and the playback module
> has crap resampling, then there's nothing to stop you transposing the
> sample in a decent audio processing package first before sticking it on the
> sd card.  (That's what I used to do with my old Akai S01 sampler that had
> crappy linear interpolation, and turned hi-hat samples into rustling paper
> bag sounds as soon as you touched the transpose control!)
> >
> >-Richie,
> >
> >Sent from my Xperia SP on O2
> >
> >---- paula at synth.net wrote ----
> >
> >>OMG,
> >>
> >>anyone seen this?
> >>
> >>https://www.sparkfun.com/products/13810
> >>
> >>upto 32 samples playing back at the same time, built in MIDI, 8 outputs
> >>which can dynamically assign. Just WOAH
> >>
> >>Paula
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