- Auto sampling

[sl23]

I tried a couple of auto sampling apps but had zero success with them. Way too old and complex.

Is there any chance such a thing could be added to MuLab? It would make a brilliant addition and allow us to sample tons of sounds from old vst's or old hardware straight into MuLab!

Not sure if other DAW's have this feature or not, but would help MuLab stand out! Especially if you plan to enhance the sampler with a browser as discussed before.

[Jonathan Shepherd]

Excellent idea. IL Edison works great for my sampling needs but to have something like it running natively in Mulab would be nice.

[sl23]

Hopefully enough people like the idea to sway Jo!

[Lina92]

Hello ! Yeah, auto-sampling in MuLab would be a cool feature. Not many DAWs have it smoothly integrated. If you're looking for a workaround, maybe try a third-party auto-sampling tool and then import the samples into MuLab? It's a bit of a roundabout way but could work until MuLab introduces something similar. Also, maybe drop this suggestion on their forum or support team, they might consider it for future updates!

[sl23]

Thanks, but I have tried and only found two but they were old and didn't work. Couldn't find anything else. Any recommendations?

[reusenoise]

Renoise it's a good example of autosample https://tutorials.renoise.com/wiki/Rend ... to_Samples

[sl23]

So THAT's what Renoise is!!!
I would much prefer NOT to install anything though, and especially another DAW just for one feature.
It would be very useful if this could be integrated into MuLab, with it's own Sample groups or whatever. So Loading a Sample group loads your selected patches samples across the keyboard after sampling them.

[Michael L]

I think this is specialised, and must include many complex features to be competitive (e.g. velocity layers, round robin, loop editing with x-fade, modwheel morphing, various parameters, and exporting...) but several apps and plugins (including free) can auto sample and/or map.

Some of them also export to sfz (e.g. Tx16Wx, SampleRobot, Freestyle+Nuance, Xtractpler, Bjoerns Sample mapper), so perhaps the MuLab multisampler can 'learn to read' sfz opcodes, but again that is also complex, and is that solution better than sforzando?

We know that a person's lifetime is limited but FRs are not, so I personally would like to see Jo implement whatever creative features he has been incubating in his mind while he implemented CLAP and VST3 . . .

[sl23]

Are you saying all those apps can auto sample? can you recommend something, unbloated?

Perhaps you're right. But it could also make for faster Workflow and maybe some interesting side features

Also, you're saying Jo should only add basic, easy to implement features? That's not really going to cut it when you compare to other DAW's. I do see your point. By all means make some of your own suggestions as you seem opposed to everything else, no disrespect intended.

I don't see it as complicated as you do and it doesn't need to compete with sforzando or be compatible with any other program.

A MuX is just as complex, if not more so. There are only a small selection of settings required when saving a configuration file. Take a look at some MuX creations and they're far more complex.

[Michael L]

can you recommend something

Tx16Wx is all-in-one (auto-sample, edit, map, export); try the free version

Perhaps you're right. But it could also make for faster Workflow.

Totally agree. I am not against auto-sampling, I just don't think many users want it.

Also, you're saying Jo should only add basic, easy to implement features?

No, Jo should add unique features that build on MuLab's strengths. I don't see how auto sampling plugins does that, but relatedly, printing tracks to audio is better than staying in midi 1.0.

By all means make some of your own suggestions

I think freestyle rap is the future of composition, so maybe MuLab should integrate voice-to-midi 2.0, and support that with tools to explore tonality.

[Scrubbing Monkeys]

I would love a sampler that had some of the workflow features of Tx16wx. Such as easy drag n drop multi vel and RR. The matrix is real powerful. Also some of the different ways to fire different samples based on a set of rules is cool. Skip the fx. Skip the multi instrument programs. Make it stable as all Jo's stuff usually is.

[sl23]

Auto sampling and the suggestion of voice to midi, which I asked about years ago (and would also really like to see added), is something that would open up MuLab to many new users, maybe even those from the MPC world?

[Lutin mutin]

For those who want the "auto-sampling" fonction, I suggest you to by the BLISS app (from discoDSP). Very nice app, and you can do all king of sampling you want !... and... no, I have nothing to do with the guys from discoDSP !!

I'm not a big fan of the integration of an auto-sampler inside the Mulab program itself...

My 2 cents
Good music to all of you !

[sl23]

BLISS looks pretty good, thanks for the link!

[sl23]

Tx16Wx - Easy to use, you say??? Couldn't even get started with it! How do I load a VST to auto-sample?! That's rhetorical btw
SampleRobot - 215MB installation file. No thanks.
Freestyle+Nuance - Can't find it!
Xtractpler - Can't demo it without paying for it! "Requires LoopBe or similar to route MIDI internally." Not worth the hassle.
Bjoerns Sample mapper - Abandonware since 2005!!!

So after all that, I tried Bliss2, which is actually really simple to use, does exactly what I want, but £80 for an auto sampler... Is it worth that? Maybe...