Sampled instruments support?

[arinlares]

I was wondering what my options are for sampled instruments? I'm used to the workflow of MilkyTracker and Renoise, which have more easy ways of creating multi-sampled instruments (load a bunch of samples into available slots, assign to piano notes, tune up properly, play away). Is there currently a feature for doing this, or do I need to set up instruments in another program/use pre-existing samples (SF2, mostly). I use Windows and Linux, so I would prefer flexibility while maintaining support for the platforms I use (so, the built-in PureData, for most of my use, is out).

Also, will the puredata instance in Radium do synthesis? That's another tool I want to look at, but couldn't seem to get working (in Linux).

[kjetil]

Unfortunately, there's no interface to edit multiple sample per instrument in the sampler yet. So yes, you have to use an external program for now. The sampler instrument supports sf2 and xi instruments.

[kjetil]

And yes, you can do synthesis with the pure data instrument. When you select "New Pd Instrument" from the track menu in the editor, you get a simple sine wave instrument. Also take a look at the Blowfish demo song.