Drawing a sample waveform

[ClockGen]

What would you like?

Ability to draw or otherwise edit a sample directly.

Why is this useful?

Primary usecase would be making samples on the fly without having to import them first or use soundfonts.

Are there examples from other trackers?

Some samplers (for example sunvox' one) allow drawing the waveform with mouse.

Not sure how it would look or work with gamepad-first controls.

[benjaminguerrer]

I think LSDJ has something similar, but I don't know if there's a way it can work on Pockettracker. On LSDJ it works due to the nature of how simplified and limited it really is. Pockettracker already has a quite robust sample editor. I don't think a sample drawing editor like on LSDJ can work because theoretically you can have as long a sample as you want.

Maybe adding some more editing capabilities can work? What do you feel it's missing? Maybe a simple synth waveform editor can work.

[ClockGen]

Maybe adding some more editing capabilities can work? What do you feel it's missing? Maybe a simple synth waveform editor can work.

So far I can only think of these options:

• An ability to insert a single period (or multiple) of basic predefined waveforms (sine/square/triangle/kick/chirp/etc) into current selection, so it'd stretch between selection start and end. That way it's possible to really design custom waveforms of different frequency with already existing tools, either simple waveforms to later use as synths (with ADSR mod and repeating) or design more complex sounds for drums, etc;
• An ability to set amplitude of current selection (not just normalize, fade in/out).

There might be something more, but off the top of my head I think that's all I miss to freely design custom samples right in the editor, without having to rely on existing sounds first.

[conanizer]

what comes to my mind is OctaMED synth, where you could use basic waveforms, redraw them, mix together and also use a selected regions from samples. feels a bit complicated and quirky to my taste especially to add all this features straight into sample editor. maybe as another window in parallel with sample editor so you could copy something from a sample, press R+LEFT/RIGHT to move to wave table screen and past it there, idk. but anyways, it's a thing not for a next few months at least. i'm happy to hear your thoughts on this, will try to figure out something. if you'd have some references then i'd like to take a look