Musik aus sample

MAS is a sample player/live drum machine for Playdate. Samples can be triggered by navigating around a grid on-screen, or assigned to each of the Playdate's 6 buttons (Up, Down, Left, Right, A, B).

Important! When using a patch with buttons assigned to trigger samples you move between 'Live' and 'Edit/Manual' mode by moving the crank: 0 - 180 degrees are edit/manual mode, 180 - 360 are live where all 6 input buttons can trigger samples (depending on the patch setup)

An Android phone can also be attached to the Playdate to allow triggering of larger sample sets; a grid of 18 samples in the image above.  Android connectivity relies on an undocument Playdate API which Panic may remove in a future OS update, so think of it as an added bonus.

There are ready-to-use demo patches using the extensive built-in royalty-free sample library, you can use these in your own custom patches or add your own audio. Custom patches require a little technical know-how: JSON editing and basic command-line skills. With a little work you can load in your own sample sets and create fully customised patches. Full instructions coming soon at orllewin.github.io/playdate/musik_aus_sample.

Samples can have different modes:

• hit - samples play once, if tapped again they immediately retrigger just like a drum kit
• play - samples play once then stop, if tapped again playback stops
• loop - samples loop forever until tapped

A sample also has a type:

• sample - the audio is kept in memory, most samples will use this type
• file - the audio plays from file, useful for longer audio samples that would use too much memory as a sample type

There's also extra syntax to set volume, playback rate (set to 0.5 to make a sample playback an octave lower at half speed), set labels and images for grid cells. You can even add a special sample/pad that links to other patches.

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MAS User patch with 16 samples and the Android companion app:

Built-in MAS demo patch with samples assigned to Playdate buttons:

Built-in MAS demo patches on two Playdates: