Is this possible with Flowstone ?

[lagoule]

Hello everyone,

First, I'll introduce myself as this is my very first post here ... I'm 40, living in France; my fulltime job is developing software [web apps / SQL / C# / batch scripts] kind of things. I've been making music with computers since late 80's (Atari ST / Pro24 if it rings a bell to you ) but today I'm still totally newbee in plugin / instrument development, but feel very attracted now to write my owns, and Flowstone seems to be an amazing tool to work with

I'd like to write some basic multi-slots sampler application (some sort of loop/groove sampler based on .wav files, if you will), but there is one specific point that I want to deal with and which is important to me : I'd like it to parse a folder full of samples (say, kicks / snares / you get the idea ...) with two switches (previous sample / next sample). Those switches have to respond to MIDI data (typically program change messages), so that you can parse a directory of samples easily without having to grab the mouse or touchpad.

Is this possible with Flowstone ?

Thanks everyone !

[nix]

I hope so mate,
in my opinion FS is an awesome tool too.
Maybe the first thing you could do would be to have a look at the data coming out of the 'MIDI splitter' module when u make your program change. Maybe this information can be used to iterate a 'selector', which scrolls through the waves.
Welcome!

[trogluddite]

Welcome to the forum, lagoule,

Using the Ruby compomemts, you should have no problem with the file system - directory selection and filtering files by name/extension pretty simple - there are classes and methods already in Ruby to do most of the things you'll be familiar with from your other programming experience.
Once you have some filtered arrays of file paths, stepping through it using MIDI triggers will be easy.

[lagoule]

Thank you so much both of you for your very fast and promising answers !
I'll dive into all this and try to make things work

[trogluddite]

You're welcome.

Oh, and I would also advise looking at the SynthMaker forum - an older version of the software, but the "green" data and DSP streams work the same (you can load SynthMaker files into FlowStone). There are some good examples there of sample players, and many, many other good things - nearly a decade of knowledge from some very talented people.

[daslicht]

Is is possibe to drag samples from the DAW or FileSystem to a Flowstone Plugin?

[daslicht]

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