On 02/04/2014 02:39 PM, James Mckernon wrote: I have a quite large sample (flac) collection :-) atte@skagen:~/music/samples$ du -h | tail -n1 39G . Some are ancient and sampled on my roland s50 back in the day directly from vinyl that I personally hunted down in second hand record stores, most are collected from all over the internet. Others (mostly melodic non-drum instruments) are samples from the synths I have or have owned (wavestation, jv80, xp80, micron, m50) or generated with ams, zynaddsubfx or even the nativ synth in energyXT. The only synth I really use is Loomer Aspect, although I don't use it that much. The main reason why I prefer samples over synths are the "build-in" complexity with samples. To me music mostly build with synthesizers tends to lack depth. Don't get me wrong, I like Jarre and Kitaro, but I'm going for a more organic sound, my electronic heros are Squarepusher and chr15 + various underground stuff I stumble over from time to time. I really like to load a sample that might suggest a chord that I don't even know how is tuned and start messing with it by ear. I love to be surprised and get pushed to harmonies I wouldn't think of myself. Yes, it's done in lua. Some things are hardcoded, it works in companion with a bash script. If this doesn't scare you. I can send you the stuff off-list... It's sooo important, at least for me. -- Atte http://atte.dk http://modlys.dk