I personally use Hydrogen. I'd probably start with the tutorial right there on Hydrogen's website: http://hydrogen-music.org/content/tutorial/tutorial_en.html I've found the program/interface to be extremely easy to use and intuitive, so you'll likely be up and running after just a little poking around. On Sat, Apr 5, 2008 at 5:44 AM, schoappied <schoappied(a)gmail.com> wrote:

schoappied wrote: midi (muse) and samples (specimen) Ok, this made me download hydrogen and indeed it has some nice kits (each within it's own directory, most of them wav). I also had a few collections of samples of old drummachines laying around, which made me play around with specimen. So I wrote the attached python-script, that simply makes a .beef (specimen file) from all .wav-files in a directory. It'll assign every sample on a new note chromatically from a given note (default is 36), so it's mostly useful for drums. I think it's gonna allow me to make noise more easily :-) I post it here in the hope others might find it useful too... -- peace, love & harmony Atte http://atte.dk | http://myspace.com/attejensen http://anagrammer.dk | http://modlys.dk #!/usr/bin/env python # -*- coding: latin-1 -*- import os, optparse, sys, os.path, wave parser = optparse.OptionParser() if '-?' in sys.argv: sys.argv.remove('-?') sys.argv.append('-h') parser.add_option('-d','--directory-containing-wavs', dest="wavDir", default='.') parser.add_option('-l','--lowest-note-of-mapping', dest="startNote", default='36') parser.add_option('-f','--force-overwrite', action="store_true", dest="forceOverwrite", default=False) parser.add_option('-s','--stdout', action="store_true", dest="stdOut", default=False) parser.add_option('-o','--outfile', dest="outFile") (options, args) = parser.parse_args() def getDir(dir): result = [] import os.path path = os.path.abspath(dir) + '/' list = os.listdir(dir) for file in list: (root, ext) = os.path.splitext(file) if os.path.isfile(path + file) and ext in ['.wav','.WAV']: result.append(path + file) return result header = """<?xml version="1.0"?> <beef>""" patch = """ <patch> <name>%s</name> <file>%s</file> <channel>0</channel> <note>%s</note> <volume>1,000000</volume> <pan>0,000000</pan> <play_mode>5</play_mode> <cut>0</cut> <cut_by>0</cut_by> <range>0</range> <lower_note>%s</lower_note> <upper_note>%s</upper_note> <sample_start>0</sample_start> <sample_stop>%s</sample_stop> <loop_start>0</loop_start> <loop_stop>%s</loop_stop> <cutoff>1,000000</cutoff> <resonance>0,000000</resonance> <pitch>0,000000</pitch> <pitch_steps>2</pitch_steps> <portamento>no</portamento> <portamento_time>0,050000</portamento_time> <monophonic>no</monophonic> <legato>no</legato> <volume_a>0,000000</volume_a> <volume_env_on>no</volume_env_on> <volume_amt>0,000000</volume_amt> <volume_d>0,000000</volume_d> <volume_s>1,000000</volume_s> <volume_r>0,000000</volume_r> <volume_delay>0,000000</volume_delay> <volume_hold>0,000000</volume_hold> <volume_lfo_amt>0,000000</volume_lfo_amt> <volume_lfo_on>no</volume_lfo_on> <volume_vel_amt>1,000000</volume_vel_amt> <volume_lfo_a>0,000000</volume_lfo_a> <volume_lfo_delay>0,000000</volume_lfo_delay> <volume_lfo_beats>1,000000</volume_lfo_beats> <volume_lfo_freq>1,000000</volume_lfo_freq> <volume_lfo_global>no</volume_lfo_global> <volume_lfo_sync>no</volume_lfo_sync> <volume_lfo_positive>no</volume_lfo_positive> <volume_lfo_shape>sine</volume_lfo_shape> <panning_a>0,000000</panning_a> <panning_env_on>no</panning_env_on> <panning_amt>0,000000</panning_amt> <panning_d>0,000000</panning_d> <panning_s>1,000000</panning_s> <panning_r>0,000000</panning_r> <panning_delay>0,000000</panning_delay> <panning_hold>0,000000</panning_hold> <panning_lfo_amt>0,000000</panning_lfo_amt> <panning_lfo_on>no</panning_lfo_on> <panning_vel_amt>0,000000</panning_vel_amt> <panning_lfo_a>0,000000</panning_lfo_a> <panning_lfo_delay>0,000000</panning_lfo_delay> <panning_lfo_beats>1,000000</panning_lfo_beats> <panning_lfo_freq>1,000000</panning_lfo_freq> <panning_lfo_global>no</panning_lfo_global> <panning_lfo_sync>no</panning_lfo_sync> <panning_lfo_positive>no</panning_lfo_positive> <panning_lfo_shape>sine</panning_lfo_shape> <cutoff_a>0,000000</cutoff_a> <cutoff_env_on>no</cutoff_env_on> <cutoff_amt>0,000000</cutoff_amt> <cutoff_d>0,000000</cutoff_d> <cutoff_s>1,000000</cutoff_s> <cutoff_r>0,000000</cutoff_r> <cutoff_delay>0,000000</cutoff_delay> <cutoff_hold>0,000000</cutoff_hold> <cutoff_lfo_amt>0,000000</cutoff_lfo_amt> <cutoff_lfo_on>no</cutoff_lfo_on> <cutoff_vel_amt>0,000000</cutoff_vel_amt> <cutoff_lfo_a>0,000000</cutoff_lfo_a> <cutoff_lfo_delay>0,000000</cutoff_lfo_delay> <cutoff_lfo_beats>1,000000</cutoff_lfo_beats> <cutoff_lfo_freq>1,000000</cutoff_lfo_freq> <cutoff_lfo_global>no</cutoff_lfo_global> <cutoff_lfo_sync>no</cutoff_lfo_sync> <cutoff_lfo_positive>no</cutoff_lfo_positive> <cutoff_lfo_shape>sine</cutoff_lfo_shape> <resonance_a>0,000000</resonance_a> <resonance_env_on>no</resonance_env_on> <resonance_amt>0,000000</resonance_amt> <resonance_d>0,000000</resonance_d> <resonance_s>1,000000</resonance_s> <resonance_r>0,000000</resonance_r> <resonance_delay>0,000000</resonance_delay> <resonance_hold>0,000000</resonance_hold> <resonance_lfo_amt>0,000000</resonance_lfo_amt> <resonance_lfo_on>no</resonance_lfo_on> <resonance_vel_amt>0,000000</resonance_vel_amt> <resonance_lfo_a>0,000000</resonance_lfo_a> <resonance_lfo_delay>0,000000</resonance_lfo_delay> <resonance_lfo_beats>1,000000</resonance_lfo_beats> <resonance_lfo_freq>1,000000</resonance_lfo_freq> <resonance_lfo_global>no</resonance_lfo_global> <resonance_lfo_sync>no</resonance_lfo_sync> <resonance_lfo_positive>no</resonance_lfo_positive> <resonance_lfo_shape>sine</resonance_lfo_shape> <pitch_a>0,000000</pitch_a> <pitch_env_on>no</pitch_env_on> <pitch_amt>0,000000</pitch_amt> <pitch_d>0,000000</pitch_d> <pitch_s>1,000000</pitch_s> <pitch_r>0,000000</pitch_r> <pitch_delay>0,000000</pitch_delay> <pitch_hold>0,000000</pitch_hold> <pitch_lfo_amt>0,000000</pitch_lfo_amt> <pitch_lfo_on>no</pitch_lfo_on> <pitch_vel_amt>0,000000</pitch_vel_amt> <pitch_lfo_a>0,000000</pitch_lfo_a> <pitch_lfo_delay>0,000000</pitch_lfo_delay> <pitch_lfo_beats>1,000000</pitch_lfo_beats> <pitch_lfo_freq>1,000000</pitch_lfo_freq> <pitch_lfo_global>no</pitch_lfo_global> <pitch_lfo_sync>no</pitch_lfo_sync> <pitch_lfo_positive>no</pitch_lfo_positive> <pitch_lfo_shape>sine</pitch_lfo_shape> </patch>""" footer = "</beef>" # --- the action ---- output = [] output.append(header) note = int(options.startNote) for file in getDir(options.wavDir): (head, tail) = os.path.split(file) (basename, ext) = os.path.splitext(tail) wav = wave.open(file) end = wav.getnframes() -1 values = (basename,file,note, note, note, end, end) output.append(patch % values) note = note + 1 output.append(footer) if options.stdOut == True: print '\n'.join(output) sys.exit() if not options.outFile: options.outFile = options.wavDir.strip('/').split('/')[-1:][0] + '.beef' if not os.path.exists(options.outFile) or options.forceOverwrite: FILE = open(options.outFile,"w") for line in output: FILE.write(line) else: print 'outfile "' + options.outFile + '" exists, use -f to force overwrite'