This has driven me crazy every time I try to play with Audiotool. I want to take a sound I recorded and have access to playing it in different pitches, via the note track. This seems like the most basic synth-type action - sample a sound and turn it into an instrument. Yet why is it not an option on any sample, to simply make a note track by rick clicking on its box?
I assume there's some work around by routing the sample into one of the confusing synths, someone please explain... I know it can be done but god knows it's not in any intuitive way.
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Unfortunately, AT doesn't have a dedicated sampler device that can do this yet. The usual way to go around this limitation is to use the Machiniste: https://www.audiotool.com/board/manual/machiniste Load your sample in several sample slots and use the Pitch knob to detune each instance by the desired amount. Then you can trigger each "note" with the sequencer, note track or keyboard. Alternatively, you can load your sample in a single slot and use the Pitch Modulation knob to set how the intensity of sequencer hits affects sample pitch.
Thanks for the confirmation. What a shame, it seems such an obvious thing to provide - I mean so many of the sound tools connect into piano modality...
The first suggestion you had was the only work-around I could find myself, so guess I'll keep with that wonky work-around.
I suppose there's no way to add more channels to the machiniste samples? Gotta make a bunch of boxes per-'instrument', for a larger range of notes, yes?
You shouldn't pitch a sample beyond 1 octave so one Machiniste per instrument is typically enough.
We know this is not satisfying. A good sampler is hard to develop and to implement but among our missing devices it has top priority.
No, unfortunately you can't add more slots to a Machiniste. But 9 slots give you more than an octave if you're working with a diatonic scale. As @chordofdestruction said, this is enough for most good melodies. And, depending on your melody, you might not need every note, allowing you to cover a wider range. The Pitch knob gives you a range of +/- 2 octaves. If you use the second method, you could theoretically have 100 different pitches spread over 2 octaves using a single slot.
I don't mean to revive a seemingly dead thread but is this still true a year later? Would be nice ;)
yes.
There is a way but it's almost more janky than setting up the multi sample pitch shift. if you right click and show software keyboard you can hit record and then play the keyboard by hand. I can't seem to edit the not pattern afterword's so it's very finicky that way.
oops, nevermind , I was in pencil mode by accident, you can absolutely edit the note pattern. the other odd quirk is it only let's you get one octave out of the sample but if you load in another sample and pitch it down or up an octave that pretty much solves that issue, just more things to juggle.
okay one more very cool thing about this because it doesn't have to be a bunch of the same samples in the Machiniste, you can load multiple intruments and by choosing which sample if firing you can have one machine that now handles a bunch of instruments. granted if you try polyphonic stuff by having two samples play at once you can have both samples play at time but you can't give each it's own note track. this kinda feels like a chiptune machine the way i've set it up.
ok i'm embarrsed, you were right the first time, you have to do the pitch shift to the sample and load it a bunch. but at least with the note pattern it makes it a bit easier to arrange a melody. oh well, I really thought I was onto something.
what was the way to do it?
im trying to do the same thing rn. is there a new way to do it or no?