i have used sooperlooper as a sample player triggered by midi, so in that sense its quite similar. same with terminatorx (which is greatly missed; all the recent versions segfault on various button-pushes, at least for me on arch, debian, slackware, puppy etc. its a bummer that this great app is no longer active). but the ecasound project is active, and its control interface is robust, which is why i thought it might do as a sample player triggered by midi... On Feb 24, 2011, at 15:11, jordan <triplesquarednine@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 5:14 PM, Steiny <eric.steinberg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> i really prefer tapeutape over specimen/linuxsampler/terminatorx/sooperlooper, due to its lack of visual cruft. has anyone used ecasound as a midi or osc controlled sampler? > > ??!??! > > sooperlooper isn't the same type of sampling application as tapeutape > or specimen, at all. > > Tapeutape/specimen (and linuxsampler) are samplers that map samples to > keys/midi, and can be maniputed in several ways. While Sooperlooper > does sample, as the name implies it is a looper, not a traditional > sampler - they are very dis-similar, and can't even realistically be > compared, they are different tools for different jobs. > > As well, I really like tapeutape's interface, it is very straight > forward and simple to use. > However, i use Specimen because it is more powerful - having LFO's, > pitch contol (realtime), envelopes, and filters on a "per sample > basis" is extremely useful. > > then let's not forget the velocity tab that allows you to specify all > of the above listed parameters to be controlled based on the velocity > of each note. for example; i can have a snare that when played softly > has a low cuf-off frequency (filter), but as i strike the snare harder > - the sound will get sharper (higher-frequency). For me, this adds so > much life to my sample banks and allows my sounds to be much more > dynamic. > > one thing missing though is tapeUtape's feature that allows to specify > multiple samples based on velocity. but it's a trade-off. But when the > next version of tapeutape is out - i'll be checking it out, for sure. > > as for ecasound, and terminatorX (haven't used them...yet) > > jordan _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
