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What's the simplest pad sampler app?
I'm looking for a dead simple, like Casio SK-1 simple, pad based sampler app. No saving, no record dialogs... Hit record, touch a pad, make the sound, hit stop, trigger the sound. Something with at least 6 pads and MIDI triggering of those pads. Sir Sampleton has the simplicity and the MIDI but I'm really looking for an all-on-one-screen type thing.
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This may be obvious, but NanoStudio. I use it for samples playback. And it works well over midi with Cubasis.. For example I can have 16 samples per midi channel on 5 midi channels (I've not bought the upgrade) which can be midi sequenced in Cubasis and then recorded back into Cubasis thru Audiobus as audio. Works well
edit- if it a lo-fi sound you're after, then you can down sample the sounds before loading them into Nano OR run them thru a bit crusher after. Have fun
Thanks much, @RUncELL. NanoStudio is my personal go to for this but I'm looking for something without the whole enter Edit mode, select a pad, find the record button, choose the recording source + time, record, edit, save, pick a location, name... then trigger. Just Pad, Sample, Play! I know they're out there.
The request is born from watching my daughter having a blast sampling into my SPD-S drum pad and bashing away on it. She was clever enough to work out how to do it on there so she'd probably not be to fussed by a little overhead but NS' is probably a bit too much.
It's not the (wonderful) lo-finess of Sir Sampleton I'm after, it's the zero resistance between recording a sample and playing it. No save, no edit...
If the app auto-trimmed at least the start of the sample, that'd be boss.
Ah I see.. Yes an Sk would be great.. Noise pad may be the one, but when I looked for it on the App Store it didn't show up, instead it was -My beat box which might work.. No midi though !
Another vote for Noisepad. It's back in the store...and on sale.
Thanks fellas. Looking at the info and video on http://www.noise-pad.com, it doesn't say (or show) anything about actually sampling. Am I missing it?
Cheers flo but no MIDI. Otherwise looks perfect.
Idea is that she can sample her voice or whatever into the app and then use the 9 pads on the SPD-S to trigger those samples. She can do it all in the SPD but she's gonna fill the paltry memory by tomorrow!
Loopy maybe?
Annoydio by Anthony Kitowicz
https://appsto.re/gb/FyrcO.i
Looks like it may do.
You can record samples into the app.
Or you can paste them into it.
Sample Lab?
https://itunes.apple.com/es/app/sample-lab/id400128932?mt=8
Triggler...
SampleWiz?
I was thinking about this just today. On my wish list there would be a few slots, a big red rec button, midi learn (for that button). Possibly brackets for instant trimming of the loop start/end
I'm wondering why Loopy doesn't work here? It's so dead simple from a UI perspective--my kids intuitively grasped it in about two seconds and filled twelve circles in about five minutes.
I'm probably missing something important!
@supadom how do you like loopersonic? I've never tried it, but I like the editing features in the videos. Same with that new novation blocs wave app. I sometimes wish Samplr allowed for some editing/shifting.
I think that loopy isn't that well versed for one shot sampling and triggering.
Loopersonic looks good in the promo vid. For me it is too much to learn another looping app at the moment. I can kind of do the on the spot sampling in Samplr. I don't do much of that anyway.
I've just started a new project combining Fleksi looping with a kick ass drummer/percussionist and a trumpet player/vocalist. This means that I'm spending most of my time thinking of how to integrate the machine with the humans and vice versa
Hmmm. Looking forward to hearing what you do here.
Same. Will you be sampling either of the other two live musicians?
Thanks all. Pretty sure I own a few of the newer suggestions. Damn folders. Will check them out.
That might work actually. I didn't think of it because of all the reasons the Good Mr. Dom mentioned. I use it in loop mode always so it just didn't cross my mind as one-shot capable. It does tick all of the boxes though. The one-shot/loop config might push it out of bounds but I'll definitely check it out. She already knows how to use the basics of Loopy. Cheers!
DM1 can record or import to its pads . Maybe too many steps for your requirements, but you can record and trim and save samples to each pad quite quickly and easily. I revisited and would recommend it if it hadn't of crashed on me whilst saving the drum kit.
An update. tl;dr: still searching.
I purchased Annoydio and NoisePad. I couldn't sort out how to get a recording onto a pad with Annoydio though! Also, I think this one is actually 'MIDI to the currently focussed sound only' as there was no place (that I could find) to set the note or channel. Will write the dev.
NoisePad is closer (once I removed the decidedly kid-friendly "Fuck, girl, lemme see you shake it" and similar bro-in-a-baseball-cap in app content). It's still a little convoluted in that you have to record a sample, close out of that, open the browser and then drag to the pad.
I tried Loopy too but decided to abandon it because I didn't want to mess up my own setup and MIDI bindings! Sorry, kid.
Tonight I'll try DM1, Sample Lab, Triggler and SampleWiz. At least I own the first two. Thanks again, all.
By the way, "Samples - A Sampler For Humans" is just about perfect if you don't mind triggering samples from the screen. Dead frigging simple to capture samples directly to a pad but no MIDI.
Vidibox?
That made me laugh, especially as I've experienced the same with my kids vs Loopy.
Weird thing is, I can't get it to work as I'd like it to work. Perhaps I'm overthinking it. I have no problems recording my shit in Auria, understanding ModStep, getting Cream to do cool stuff and making wondrous sounds out of SunVox. I should, in theory, get along just fine with Loopy. But I don't. I'm pretty sure it is me though.
Brilliant! Sampling and selfies? Her 8 year old head is going to explode.
And that had me properly laugh out loud. Sorry, I shall not let you know every time I'm amused by a comment here, but instead ask: can Vidibox sample? I thought it only imported audio?
Tap library
Tap +
Tap on "custom sound" to rename it
Record sound - tweak it a bit
Press a pad
Then press on its name on the left
You can then select the sample you recorded.
Awesome, thank you very much!
You can shoot video and import it (all from within the app). The UI adds the new recording to the list at the top, with a preview image, and then you drag it to a pad. I haven't actually tried it yet but from the videos online, it seems to fit the bill. Not sure about trimming yet. One really nice feature of the SPD-S is the auto-trimming; it a) has a 'listen' feature so it doesn't start recording until sound hits a threshold and b) it crops the head and tail the sample automatically since it's presuming you're sampling something either percussive or a loop.
Yellowfier?
Doesn't work for this but I hadn't played with it for a while. Just lost 30 minutes to it! Such a good time. Thanks!
Editing's fairly straightforward, but @billaboop it doesn't show up in audiobus, when you're updating the sdk, are you going to add 'link', please? (: yes, threshold recording, autotrimming, even 'remote recording' via external 'shutter release' and midi learn ... thank you, greetings, crs