Hi,
Has anyone developed record with edition sampler, with or for Zynthian ?
Thank’s for reading
Michaël
Record/playi is implemented and works quite well, including note-playing at variable freq. Editing is not implemented. It can be a complex task, depending what editing options do you want. I think for basic sampler functionality we would need start/stop points and ADSR envelope. This shouldn’t be hard to implement. Going beyond this would have to wait.
An alternate way could be implementing a custom gui (widget) for samplv1:
http://linuxsynths.com/Samplv1Demos/samplv1.html
This engine is already included but not very useful in its current state because of lack of a good-enough integration.
Regards
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Thank you for that answer.
Sample recording is the first technical brick of a global musical instrument project that I am trying to develop.
I would like to make an instrument independent of any computer, capable of creating sounds from processing samples captured with a microphone, then composing music with the keyboard and a large screen included.
Among the treatments, I imagine the classics of sampling: start / stop / loop / pitch.
After i like to mix with over audio sample and use an envelope follower.
For the moment I have a Raspberry Pi4 card, a HIFI ADC DAC pro card, a 7 inch touch screen and I am looking for the right software solution.
Zynthian seems to respond to the multi-track part of the project and that’s why it interests me.
I do not think to use the possibility of creating virtual synths.
My project includes a digital multi-track, with audio tracks and midi tracks and also an effects processor.
Thank you very much for your help, I feel very alone on this project and I lack a lot of skills, I am a 3D graphic designer and I do not know any programming language.
I am looking for a person with these skills who wants to participate in my project, I have read a lot about the creation of new musical instruments and it seems to me that this kind of complete solution without a computer is missing.
Regards
Beside Zynthian I also use a 1010music Blackbox for arranging and processing samples, played with Zynthian and instantly recorded with the Blackbox. I think it does everything you described in a very comfortable way. Maybe you have a look, but unfortunately it is not open source.
Yes i saw Blackbox solution, i’m not looking for those kind of new instruments, i want to make my own , so open source software is essential. I do have many instruments / synthétisers / home studio with Protools with many software sampler and synth. I want make a new instrument for musicians for make musique without computer or asset.
Kind a portable studio with keyboard and microphone in it, based on sampling sound création.
I understand 
. Today the Hardware is not the problem. Plattforms like Teensy 4.1 have enough power to manage what you imagine. I am afraid without skills in coding/programming/engineering it is not easy to create a kind of prototype. My suggestion: use your grafix and music skills and make an amazing kind of concept art film to show virtualy what will be possible with your device. Maybe someone with the right skills is interested and wants to see it alive.
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Teensy 4.1 look great for prototyping, thank’s.
yes hard for me alone to do that, but i think is a team building, i try to learn and build on my side today , and i hope some help later.
Step by step 
Have you checked the samplv1 link? What do you think? I think it could be a good candidate …
i do,
I shared the link with my engineer friend…
this link:
After i found over good solution
…waiting for his opinion
You mean Audacity Editing like???
Audacity is open source, so in theory it could be ported to Zynthian…
It would be great… just a guess…
bc I don’t know how to edit samples right now in Zynthian…
There is Audo recorder, the normal sampler, and SooperLooper,
but I don’t know how to edit sounds clips with any of them
(I’m still learning how to use the UI, mind you, I still have a lot to figure out)
- You can record audio by using the Toggle Audio Record option. This has a dedicated button on a V5.
- You can play your last recorded audio by using the Toggle Audio Play option. This has a dedicated button on V5.
- You can access a list of previously recorded audio by adding a ZynSampler engine. Audio recordings are presented as presets.
- Within zynsampler, you can adjust the crop markers to adjust the played duration. This is simple non-destructive editing.
- You can save as a new preset. This will create a new audio file with just the cropped section. (It also saves other meta data like any markers, etc.)
- If you enable any of the chain’s record flags, then the audio recordings will be multitrack, with a stereo pair for each chain that is armed for record.
- You can access audio recordings via webconf, for example for further processing in a DAW.
So we do have some simple audio record and edit. We are purposefully avoiding developing DAW features in zynthian. That is not its purpose and there are perfectly good, open source alternatives. It also makes little sense in running a DAW on zynthian. Technically possible but why? The normal UI is too small with just knobs and buttons. Again, not what we are designing zynthian for.
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While this thread is brought back I’d like to ask: Is there a way to scrub/scroll the playhead faster when already zoomed in? I find when cropping a sample zoomed in at say 8x, it works better using the touchscreen to scroll around. I know there’s the ‘view offset’ but that requires changing another page from the crop controls.
That connects with another question: does the zoom always zoom directly into the middle of the sample? i.e. the zoom isn’t context sensitive, such as zooming on the playhead or zooming to the crop region