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SEQUENTIAL/DSI => Prophet => Sequential Prophet X => Topic started by: LoboLives on January 16, 2019, 07:42:21 AM

Title: Creating multisamples with onboard samples
Post by: LoboLives on January 16, 2019, 07:42:21 AM
It would be a cool idea to be able to somehow have the mapping software be able to take existing onboard PX samples and be able to create a multisample with them. For example to be able to take the Blackbird drum kit on the lowest octave, a slap bass sample on the next octave, an arco string sample on the next octave and a VS Wave on the next octave.
Title: Re: Creating multisamples with onboard samples
Post by: REwire on January 16, 2019, 09:47:38 AM
I'd pretty much surmise we will never be able to offload the stock samples.
Title: Re: Creating multisamples with onboard samples
Post by: mildwest on January 16, 2019, 10:42:52 AM
Agree with ReWire's assumption, but this is a fabulous and forward-thinking idea.
Title: Re: Creating multisamples with onboard samples
Post by: Lady Gaia on January 16, 2019, 01:14:55 PM
I can imagine a scheme where the factory samples never escape the Prophet X, but you install a sample pack that says, in essence, duplicate a specific previously existing sample during installation (I’m assuming it would be literally duplicated to allow fast loading by packing all of the samples needed in one nice contiguous package during installation.)

Aside from the question of whether this would ever wind up being a priority, which only Sequential can answer, there are a couple of obvious challenges here.  One is that we don’t actually know what samples are in the factory set so you’d probably have to refer to a key range and just get all the velocity and round-robin samples mapped in that range.  Another is that we wouldn’t have any way of knowing how large the resulting sound set would be so it would be hard to tell if you were under the 1.5GB limit.

There’s a lot to be done to deliver on the initial expectations, so I fully expect to see Sequential and 8Dio focus first and foremost on delivering a mapping utility that supports velocity switched and round-robin selection among user samples before much of anything else.