[LAU] Stutter effect for linux

Steiny eric.steinberg at gmail.com
Thu Feb 24 23:32:21 UTC 2011


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  its a bummer that this great app is no longer active).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 at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 5:14 PM, Steiny <eric.steinberg at gmail.com> 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


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