Map your recordings
Arrange hits on pads or map recordings across a keyboard. Set root notes, tuning, and sample start and end points instead of preparing a separate file for every use.
Decide how your sounds should play.
Shape the response
Adjust attack and release, choose how velocity affects level, and use different recordings for soft and hard notes. Alternate takes can give repeated notes more variation.
Save different treatments
Keep presets with different tuning, tone, or envelopes. Return to the recordings and mappings when you want to change the instrument.
Hear your edits as you make them.
Import your audio into a sampler project, edit its mappings and settings, and audition it with keys, pads, or supported MIDI input. Ask the Studio agent to help with mapping and other bank edits, or use the editor directly.
Start with the response you need: a softer attack, shorter release, stronger velocity contrast, or a different sample on a hard strike. Try it on your own material before adding more complexity.
Try the sampler your instrument will use.
Maru Sampler
Play existing banks and explore the sampler’s controls before bringing your own recordings. The same sampler provides playback for Studio banks.
- Scope and limitations
- The module page shows current features and availability. Custom synthesis or interfaces need separate development.
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Using your material
What would you like to play from your recordings?
Tell us what material you have, whether you want keys or pads, and how the sound should respond. Include a preview you can share and the setup you use.
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