I’ve built a basic Zynthian setup and fell in love with the sequencer. I see it uses loops made in Zynthian, however, can I drop in beat matched samples from other sources? I’d love to trigger my samples according to the tempo as the sequencer recordings allow.
If I have a sample with a BPM, can I drop it into the grid sequencer?
The wav samples must be loaded into a Zynsampler and can then be triggered via the grid (pitch in the grid: C4). The corresponding tempo must be set manually in Zynseq.
The type of integration you seek is on our roadmap but not yet implemented. As @spurkopf says, there is a clunky way to do it and we have added some of the features to zynsampler to facilitate this, for example you can add markers to a sample to splice it so that different MIDI notes play different sections of the sample. You can adjust the playback speed and/or pitch. You can set loop points. You can trigger the whole sample (if not spliced) from MIDI. You can add ADSR curve to a sample.
Currently you must add a zynsampler to a chain, setting its MIDI channel and loading the sample from file and then within zynseq, assign a pad to the chain’s MIDI channel and add a C4 note to play for the duration of the sample. But there is a helper function for this. In Zynsampler, highlight the pad you want to configure and then from the context menu, select “Track Type” which toggles between Audio and MIDI. When Audio is selected it will create a new chain with zynsampler on that MIDI channel and you just select the audio file.
This is very far from perfect but it is the start of our journey into sequenced audio clips…