Message 14/21
Date: 10-Dec-00 @ 01:02 PM -
RE: Sample your analogs!
I would like to see a Wavetable Sampler.
If you can imagine a screen onto which a large grid is displayed and into which you can place samples that will be automatically wavetablized when all grids are filled with microsamples.
So clicking/popping phase etc are worked out when you initialize the table.
Next you could assign modulations to the table,say a stable triangle which then visibly can be seen to pass over the grid thus enabling the sample data stored at each grid position to sound sequentiall,so over and over the same samples would be played.
Or even a sine wave with varying amplitude and speed so that different samples over time would be played.
Or where you simply click on those gird positions you wish to sound sequentially and also for how long that particular sample should linger on before the next grid is accessed.
Sampling Wavetable Wavesequencer.
I guess you would want this as a desktop unit with a slopping front panel to prevent hours of unatural posture in front of a vertical rack.
Also you would like internal hardrive for convenience sake and also the possibility to connect another archiving storage device.
Since you would be dealing with very small snippets of sound for extended periods you may wish to have a phones output and a good graphical display of the waveform.
The complex function of Wavetablizing should be automatic but with compare and undo functions.
And you would need the ability to create modulation sources from scratch for bizarre properties of modulation.
Just some thoughts.