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Jeffrey Lubow edited this page Nov 8, 2019 · 4 revisions

The OSC Sampler is a composable polymorphic sampling engine library with a number of options for optimzation and features.

In general, the library is split up into two categories:

  1. mono samplers
  2. polyphonic samplers

There are options for transposition, which objects are used (some MSP sampling objects are more computationally expensive than others), whether or not to anticipate switching between stereo and mono files, etc. There is a sub-section of the library dedicated to patches that are meant to be used within a poly~ context, which is located in /patchers/soundfiles_sampling/MSP_Samplers/voices.

We enumerate the use cases below:

Basic Samplers:

These samplers represent the basic building blocks which the OSC Sampler are based on. There are 4 main categories.

Non-looping

Samplers that aren't meant to loop, but that might offer transposition or multisample mappings.

  • mono-msp-nl: 1 voice, non-looping multisample mapping.
  • mono-sample-player-noloop: 1 voice, single sample mapping, non-looping.
  • poly~-msp-mcents: polyphonic, non-looping, multisample mapping, transposition specified in cents.
  • poly~-multisample-player: polyphonic, non-looping, multisample mapping, transposition is midi-based

Looping:

mono-multisample-player

Samplers that loop

Non-looping + decay:

Samplers that aren't meant to loop, but are expected to have decaying sounds loaded in to them.

File loading utilities:

Utilities that support this library which allow the user to load banks of samples and manage them within a patch.

OSC-Sampler wrappers:

This category is the crux of the OSC Sampler library and allows you to specify which options you'd like your custom sampler to employ.

VSamp wrapper:

This wrapper is/was used with the ever-loving "VSamp" VST plugin, which allows you to construct complex sample mappings involving instruments and groups of instruments (banks).

sampler-voice-s-nl-d.vox.maxpat multi-sample sampler-voice-noloop.vox.maxpat multi-sample sampler-nl-mcents.vox.maxpat samp-t-rl.voi.maxpat transposing, samp-t-nl.voi.maxpat transposing, non-looping samp-nt-nl.voi.maxpat non-transposing, non-looping samp-t-nl-p.voi.maxpat transposing, non-looping, polyphonic samp-nt-nl-s.voi.maxpat transposing, non-looping, samp-nt-nl-p.voi.maxpat poly-trans-randloop2.maxpat samp-nt-l.voi.maxpat nt-sampplay-extdel.maxpat

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