Redmatica AutoSampler SoftwareThe Redmatica AutoSampler is revolutionary Mac software that features automatic sampling of hardware and software instruments responding to the MIDI protocol.
Designed to be a creative tool for bridging the gap between high quality hardware synths and the virtual studio world, AutoSampler creates ready to play EXS24 instruments just by connecting your Mac to a sound source controlled by MIDI.
Through the use of a suited host program such as Logic, it’s also possible to sample virtual instruments complete of all their host effects processing. The more advanced features let you create instruments that switch/fade between keymaps sampled with varying synthesis parameters. It’s also possible to create very complex sounds from multiple synth sources, using mix volume envelopes to dynamically composite the different layers of sound.
At the end of this process, ready-to-play Exs24 instruments (and relative samples) are automatically created. AutoSampler also supports sampling of midified acoustic pianos.
Redmatica AutoSampler Features
- Creates ready-to-play Exs24 instruments without requiring specific user action/editing. The generated instruments are also compatible with Kontakt, Structure, MachFive and Halion.
- Automatic sampling with specific normalization modes, limiter, truncation, trimming, audio overload protection, release time detection (so that created instruments are already set to the proper release time), custom velocity maps
- Support for sampling midified acoustic pianos and noisy sources
- Can sample whole banks of synth patches
- Imports patch names from normal text files
- Logic 6, 7 and 8 compatible
- Universal Binary for OSX 10.4 or 10.5 (Leopard), does not require Logic to run
How it works
AutoSampler has been designed to be as simple as possible to operate. For sampling an hardware instrument, you just need to connect it to your mac through midi and audio cables. The midi synth is sent a sequence of notes at various pitches and velocities and each sample is recorded, trimmed, normalized, saved and automatically inserted at the appropriate place in newly created Exs24 instruments.
The whole concept works also for sampling a virtual instrument but this time the connections will be made through the use of an appropriate host such as Logic, the internal IAC midi bus, and an appropriate digital audio internal patcher such as the freely available Soundflower by Cycling 74. At the basic level, you decide which patches and notes you want to sample and the number of velocity levels you want to capture. For each patch to be sampled, a new Exs instrument/sample-set will be created by the software.
Additionally, through use of the advanced features of Exs24 playback engine it’s also possible to create a multidimensionally sampled (MDS) Exs24 instrument by sampling a complete keymap for each of the possible different value combinations of a set of 2 user specified midi synth controller (panel knobs, sliders or any synth parameter that accepts a midi controller input). Once created, this complex Exs24 instrument will playback a different sample set depending on how you set the designated controllers on you master keyboard. A possible application of this feature is for sampling a physical modeling midi synth, where the chosen controllers map to some complex parameters.
Whether you need to sample your hardware synth sounds, or resample some effected virtual instruments to a standard and open format, AutoSampler makes the process simple and quick. Just think of an application, and AutoSampler will sample for you.
