Mac only:



The plugin could be named "audio copy-paster" or "snippet looper", but I choose to call it InstantSampler because it does what a simple 'normal' sampler does (playing audio fragments by MIDI notes), but it takes its samples (instantly) from the audio input whenever you hit a specific MIDI note for the first time. Every consecutive time you hit the same MIDI-note, it plays back the recorded fragment (or shorter, depending on the note's length).

So, is this plugin an instrument (as the name 'sampler' might suggest), or an effect? Technically, it is an effect, but one that is controlled using MIDI. But, in Logic for instance, it can be considered to be an instrument, played with MIDI, and having an audio side-chain input. The bottomline is, that it needs both audio - and MIDI input!

When you play the sampled fragments, you have the possibility to vary the following:
velocity - Playback volume.
attack and release - Both attack & release times are configurable.
floor - The level of the input audio which is passed along unaffected when no samples are played.
playback speed - Speed up or - down the sample playback using the pitchbend control with a configurable range.
reverse playback - Playback in reverse ... this might sound a bit tricky at first, so look at the figure first (you might get it right away).



You can specify the 'reverse (velocity) range' (let's call it R), which splits the velocity scale into two parts: 0 ... R, and R+1 ... 127. If a note is played with a velocity in the lower range, then the note is played in reverse, but with the applied velocity that goes from 0 to 127 with R mapped to 127. If the velocity is in the higher range, it is played in normal order, also with a range from 0 to 127, but with R+1 mapped to 0.
clear memory - Assign a MIDI note that (when played) just clears all samples recorded so far. This is useful if you have a 'copy-paste phrase' programmed in a MIDI region, and want to reuse it at more than 1 place in your music. Just start or end your phrase with the 'clear memory note', and the second time the phrase is playing, it will record the input audio again.
This is also handy when using the InstantSampler plugin in a live setting, in case you want to clear the samples you took so far (assign it to the lowest key on your keyboard, for example).

http://www.muxer.nl/instant-sampler/
http://www.muxer.nl/instant-sampler/...antSampler.dmg