Autosampler on Raspberry PI / Samplerbox update

Here's a look at the updated Samplerbox using a Pirate Audio sound board. Samplerbox is a Raspberry PI based DIY sample player with internal effects, MIDI file player, arpeggiator and other goodies. This is a beginner-friendly DIY synth which doesn't involve soldering or programming. I also show how to create your own multisamples using a command line tool named Autosampler. Table of contents:

00:00 hello
00:21 hardware overview
01:22 assemble
01:38 booting, user interface
02:38 effects
03:42 browsing some sounds
07:10 create loop points in Audacity
07:20 important things to consider
07:51 short ambient demo...
09:49 bye-bye

Resources

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MPC One, Novation PEAK, Reface DX, Strymon Nightsky, Strymon Volante, Strymon Iridium, Zoom MS 70 CDR, Korg NanoKontrol 2, Korg NanoKey, Akai EWI USB, Zoom R24, Zoom H5, Yamaha MT7:

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[glennmeader]

Thanks digging deeper into the world of SamplerBox to create this excellent video!

[Klangraum]

Color LCD (first thought it was an OLED), 4 buttons and a HQ audio codec for €30? That's a real deal. 👍

[homerdus]

oh yeah keep doing these inspiring videos

[The_artist_called_The_Engineer]

Thread necromancy I know but would it be possible to run minidexed in this setup?

[_P_M_]

This is really interesting stuff. Has anyone built something like this for the Yamaha OPL FM chip? Would be a good way to do some retro PC gaming and also some oddball sounds for recording.

[thefumigator]

Amazing content, this is like 2 in 1, first the sampler then the auto sampler. In my case I'm a bit new to sampling technology, not sure if these samplers among other, do play a single wav file chromatically (faster or slower depending on the note) or it has a set of wav files corresponding to each octave (which I can imagine this would sound better). Anyway, it's time for me to take a look at those future music CDs and DVDs plenty of samples I've never used. Thanks for the video.

[hablalabiblia]

Hi there. Great video!!! Could you recommend another option to the Pirate Audio? They are not available in my region. Thanks in advance.

[Digithalis]

haha..pirate audio modul :-) very nice samplerbox solution. Is the audio-out quality on pirate audio modul better than from raspberry-pi?

[yellowamongus]

just purchased myself one of the headphone dac pirate audio boards. do you know if it's possible to add custom fonts to the display? would absolutely love to make it utilise a sharp, aliased pixel font

[RyanCara]

Hey thanks for doing this! Was keen for you to check out this version 😇

[Maschinestorm]

It looks like a cool project. Still want to do a fluidsynth build.

[ikestoddard]

Which Pirate Audio module? There are at least 3!

[absurdbird]

0:31 Does anyone know what midi controller that is? I've been looking for one that size for ages! It faintly says "DONNER" at the top (I think) but I still can't find it.

[rominar.]

Do the FX presets remain after rebooting?

[zwingelstein]

Bonjour,
Merci beaucoup pour cette vidéo très instructive et pour tout ce que vous faites. Bravo !
Est-ce que la carte audio pirate peut fonctionner sans être relié au réseau ? Merci.

[postamesta]

Great work mr Steinberg. It is possible to make a code for one of the four buttons (longpress) to shutdown the PI?

[BUnit]

hi I installed everything, replaced the files as advised, put the pirate audio onto the pi and powered up, everything plugged in - and just get a blank screen! any idea what I'm doing wrong? :O

[sandrainthesky]

Hanging notes in this software is bizarre! Maybe running status incompatibility? I have programmed a lot with Midi and note offs can be kept as part of a record of note on's and a circular buffer/interrupts should be able stop any problem. Perhaps the UART RX should be more integrated into the sample routines?
It's a shame it does that.

[cristobalbarrientos]

Hello, Floyd! forgive me, I am not getting this correctly, So, just connecting the keyboard to th Pi and running this autosampler script as you show, will "capture" the samples in the keyboard, without pressing a key? I have a studiologic digital piano and it's also a midi controller, will I be able to save the original samples of the keyboard? and how I choose wich voice to sample? :: confused ::
thanks again for your channel!!

[GertBoers]

I see there are two versions of the Pirate Audio: one for phones and one for line out. Did you specifically choose phones? And why?