Creating a drum rack / sample rack in LMMS

[musikbear]

it will spread over a couple of octaves and play in pitch.

Oh i wish you had been right! You are right in respect to setting a 'spread', but there is absolutely no sampler functionality. It is exactly as AFP: pitch changes, but so does BMP and hence length.
A real sampler would allow you to play a soundfile in perfect pitch harmony, with itself, and Shortcircuit does not unfortunately have that feature. It is a very bulky AFP, imo :p
But its ok to set up a drumpad full of different samples, and seams to work decent in lmms (has one crash as i made regions), but for the multisample-drumpad functionality, it look like it can do that job fine.

[slipstick]

Ah I see, you have a very specific view of what you call a sampler. SC2 may be able to do that pitch change and maintain time but if it can I don't know how to get to it. But none of the other free samplers I know can do it so...

Ah well, sorry to have raised your hopes.

Steve

[musikbear]

Ah I see, you have a very specific view of what you call a sampler

could be im wrong, i only base my search on a demo i saw of a highend hw-sampler, so there may not be such a beast :p
Thanks for your inputs!

Anywhitch, Everyone can forget about the link to tx16wx, because that does not work in lmms. It works in VST-host, but cant recognize samples in LMMS, neither when they are dragged from tx16wx' internal file-brower, or if dragged from explorer. Both methods works in VST-host. but not in LMMS.

[slipstick]

could be im wrong, i only base my search on a demo i saw of a highend hw-sampler, so there may not be such a beast :p
Thanks for your inputs!

There are software samplers that can do that sort of thing but the only ones I know are expensive things like NI Komplete and the built-in sampler in the full Ableton. It's really a DJ/performance sort of thing for transposing loops and beats rather than for instruments.

Of course you could use "Change Pitch" in Audacity a semitone at a time to makes samples and load a separate one on each key. But I can't see it being worth the effort unless you had some really specific effect you needed.

But in a sense that is what top-end soft samplers do these days for instruments. They use multi-samples (often one per note), with velocity layering (so different samples for the same note when it's loud and quiet), plus round robins etc. Which is why the "sample" for a grand piano can easily be 5Gb or more. A bit out of our class I think .

Steve

[musikbear]

software samplers that can do that sort of thing
: expensive things like NI Komplete and the built-in sampler in the full Ableton
: "sample" for a grand piano can easily be 5Gb or more. A bit out of our class I think ;).

How right you are :p