On 17 January 2016 at 20:11, J. Liles <[email protected]> wrote: > By transposing, I take it you mean pitch shifting?
Yes. > Why not create arrangements in Non-Timeline/Non-Mixer, export them to stereo > mixes, and load those in a into a conventional sampler? That would be too time-consuming and destructible on the workflow. There is a need for a tool that allows listening to a pitch-shifted, layered arrangement right at the time it is being made, without any delays associated with loading the bounced signal into a sampler and _then_ listening to it. What if one wishes to know whether a layered synth sound (in audio form, not MIDI) will work in the mix and wants to be able to adjust the timeline positions of the individual, layered sounds in "realtime" without any delays imposed by using a conventional sampler? Another example... Let's say you wish to make layered drums, a kick, a snare, etc. You begin to search for sound samples having the desired transient (attack) part for the sound you are crafting. You load each and every sample, trying to find the one that just fits in, and you find it, at least, to some extent. You then also want to move the sample clips back and forth on the tool's timeline, hoping even for a happy accident that makes your layered drum transients work together. Sure, you can do it with any DAW, but, what if you wanted to listen to all the sounds stacked _and_ pitchshifted, accordingly to the Note(s) being sent and you want to avoid the hassle of preparing a soundfont, only to have a quick listen in linuxsampler? Imagine that you create a soundfont, load it into linuxsampler, only to find it does not work well at a different pitch. Do you know a person patient enough to get back to fixing the sound, creating a soundfont and finally reloading it into linuxsampler, each time they want to take a listen? A good example of what I try to describe is Renoise's feature called "phrase". Unfortunately, it does not have to do with audio, only MIDI. Basically, it's a song, within a song.
