Feature request: increase the number of samplers

[5th_base]

I'm using Mixxx for live commentary at sports events and I frequently play short samples depending on game situations. I could really need a few more than four; an increase to 6 or 8 would be great. Implemented correctly, this should not impact any existing skins (which would remain with four samplers), but additional skins could be created with the increased number of samplers as needed.

[jus (jus)]

Thats a really cool use for Mixxx :-)

Meanwhile you could use the hotcue points in the existing 4 samplers to get 5 cuepoints (start+4 hotcues) per sample deck.
Makes 20 possible cues. You can trigger the hotcues via screen, custom keyboard or midi mapping.

Merge 5 of your short samples in an audio editor (e.g. Audacity) and maybe add some silence in between the individual samples for safety ( in Audacity Menu>Generate>Silence) . Export as single compatible file into Mixxx, throw the file to a sample or deck and set your Hotcues. Done.

[RJ Skerry-Ryan (rryan)]

We've also had requests from radio DJs who want something more like a sample-grid rather than sample decks.

[Daniel Schürmann (daschuer)]

+1 for the sample-grid idea.

[5th_base (webtools-anders)]

A sample-grid sounds good. The cues have a main drawback: playback can't be automatically stopped at the next cue, so if I have two soundeffects in the track, I'd have to remember to stop the sampler playback before the second one is played. Thus I'll stick with the 4 samplers for now.

[jus (jus)]

Fair enough.
If the sample deck is stopped and you press a hotcue button, the playback starts from the relevant hotcue point - just as long as you press the button.
Thats why i suggested to insert silence between the merged samples so you dont have the 2nd sample playing by accident.

Anyway, what functionality would be enough for sample decks in a grid for your scenario?
Just a play button for back-to-back playback to the master output + sample name display or anything else (gain, keylock etc) ?

On Oct 8, 2012, at 8:51 PM, 5th_base wrote:

> A sample-grid sounds good. The cues have a main drawback: playback can't
> be automatically stopped at the next cue, so if I have two soundeffects
> in the track, I'd have to remember to stop the sampler playback before
> the second one is played. Thus I'll stick with the 4 samplers for now.
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[Daniel Schürmann (daschuer)]

I have something simple in my mind, like Stefan Raab's TV Total Nippelboard
Just a grid of buttons where you can start to play pre cut sound sample just from the beginning to the end.

[Owen Williams (ywwg)]

This is mostly a skin issue -- the code would be straightforward. If someone wants to hack up a skin that refers to 16 samplers, I'll write the back end support for it. It won't get included in 1.11, but I can make a separate branch.

[jus (jus)]

I`ll do a 16 basic sampler skin mod for testing.

On Oct 9, 2012, at 3:40 PM, Owen Williams wrote:

> This is mostly a skin issue -- the code would be straightforward. If
> someone wants to hack up a skin that refers to 16 samplers, I'll write
> the back end support for it. It won't get included in 1.11, but I can
> make a separate branch.
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[5th_base (webtools-anders)]

Hi jus (answer to post #5),

all I would need is:
- Play button - play the sample to the end, followed by an automatic rewind for the next play event (start_play)
- Gain button
- Sample name display
If there's no waveform display (which I don't really need anyway), another method for loading a file to the sampler is needed. A right-click choice in the library pane would be enough (drag&drop is nice but not strictly required).

[jus (jus)]

@Owen
I just added a basic skin mod to the linked branch with [Sampler1]-[Sampler16] controls, organized in two column with 8 samplers per deck. Play button default is one-shot ("start_play" control ) and right click simulates hold ("play"), but it just dont work right under all circumstances. We really need some better controls for sampler playback modes.... However, the mod should be good enough for working on the backend.

[jus (jus)]

Current lp:mixxx/1.11 has 6 sampler decks in Deere1920x1080-FullHD & Deere1920x1200-WUXGA skin, and we`ll hopefully see a sample grid-skin in 1.11 final

[Swiftb0y (swiftb0y)]

Mixxx now uses GitHub for bug tracking. This bug has been migrated to:
https://github.com/mixxxdj/mixxx/issues/6659