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SamplerBox GeekShadow

Drum machine !


SamplerBox



Description

Since comments are closed for now on the add-ons website, you can still post comment on my blog here ! Thanks :)

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SamplerBox is my brand new add-on for Songbird, it lets you play sounds samples with the pane interface.

  • With the Content Pane you can change presets, set and play sounds.
  • With the Service Pane you can only play sounds.

You can also play sounds with hot keys : (somes doesn't work good)

  • Ctrl + F1 for sound 1
  • Ctrl + F2 for sound 2... etc.

There are 2 presets for now :

  • None (reset all sounds slots)
  • Drum Sets (Drum sounds !)

In the future, you will be able to save your own presets :) also Loop option is planned.

For information, SamplerBox can work outside Songbird using XULRunner. Files are available in "branches" folder of my Google Code Project Subversion. Screenshot here.




Release Notes

Update 1.4 - 12/22/10
- version bumped to 1.10.0a (for Songbird 1.9.0 compatibility)
- Now use HTML5 audio element (sounds are no more cutted) - issue 9




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Comments

(65)


boosh
boosh

THIS IS SOO AWESOME!!
I feel like a freakin [crappy] DJ (I'm awesome in my head though) ;)

Very Nice!

Issue:
-Ctrl+F4 grabs the address bar when in the browser/closes tabs sometimes... (Depending on if the bottom pane is in focus or not)
-Ctrl+F10 just doesnt work... hmmm..

Thanks GeekShadow!

over 2 years ago
nickm
nickm

Great idea but I can't get it to work on OSX :(

over 2 years ago
Jerome
Jerome

Great!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

over 2 years ago
nickm
nickm

I love it on Windows, but a separate volume control for the samples would be nice. Also if you could somehow get the sounds off http://www.najle.com/idaft/ and make that into a preset I would love you forever.

over 2 years ago
GeekShadow
GeekShadow

@nickm
Can you provide information on the Songbird build and Mac OS X version ?

For volume control, I want to include it in the beginning, but the component I use in the add-on (nsISound) is kinda limited, there is no volume control yet.
For Daft Punk Sounds, guess what ? It was on my roadmap :D
My brother did rips of Daft sounds, but they are not loud enough, so I will do a better rip and include them later ;)

over 2 years ago
nickm
nickm

I'm using Songbird 1.1.2, Build 1042 (20090331141845), and Mac OSX 10.5.6 (the latest version).

When I click on the sampler buttons I get this error message in the error console:
Error: uncaught exception: [Exception... "Component returned failure code: 0x80520012 (NS_ERROR_FILE_NOT_FOUND) [nsISound.play]" nsresult: "0x80520012 (NS_ERROR_FILE_NOT_FOUND)" location: "JS frame :: chrome://samplerbox/content/pane.js :: anonymous :: line 142" data: no]

It looks like you're using the wrong slash since it's trying to get this file:
/Users/nickmarsh/Library/Application Support/Songbird2/Profiles/x7j8hehr.default/extensions/SamplerBox@geekshadow.com\sounds\drums\crash2.wav

over 2 years ago
GeekShadow
GeekShadow

@nickm
Good catch !
Do you try custom sounds by the way ?

over 2 years ago
GeekShadow
GeekShadow

@nickm
It's fixed ! Thanks !

over 2 years ago
GeekShadow
GeekShadow

@nickm
Daft Punk sounds available !

over 2 years ago
martin_bighomer
martin_bighomer

hey great add-on!
It would be excellent when sounds could overlap themselves.
So, for example, I press the buttons "Crash Cymbal 1" and "Bell" one another.
Normally, the "Crash Cymbal 1" sound stops abruptly and after this you listen the "Bell".
Maybe, you can modify the add-on so that you can listen more sounds synchronistically.
BTW, the Daft Punk sounds are so freakin cool!

over 2 years ago
GeekShadow
GeekShadow

@martin_bighomer
Overlap sounds is not possible with the current component I use (nsISound)
We will have to wait for Songbird to be base on the new XULRunner 1.9.1 to have <audio> tags from HTML5

over 2 years ago
atreiu
atreiu

This add-on is so much fun :-) Thanks for it!

One question: is it possible to add a volume control for the effects? Currently the Volume is always the same, no matter what my songbird-volume setting is. It's okay, but it would be nicer if I could set a volume for the effects, too. (Or even better: set a volume for each single effect :-)

over 2 years ago
GeekShadow
GeekShadow

@atreiu
Yep, read the comment above, once we will have XR 1.9.1 I will add the ability to have separated volume for each sound !

XULRunner 1.9.1 : Bug 15195

over 2 years ago
startswithone1
startswithone1

this is a nice, simple add-on, and i know how complex it can be to make stuff like this sometimes, so good work. If anyone could make it so that songbird could host vst's though, now that would be amazing.

over 2 years ago
Jerome
Jerome

Sous Ubuntu, jouer avec les touches est un peu difficile.
Plus de drums ^^

over 2 years ago
GeekShadow
GeekShadow

@Jerome
Oui, les raccourcis ne sont pas terrible je te l'accorde, je vais bosser dessus pour la prochaine mise à jour.
D'ailleurs si tu as des idées pour les touches dis le moi ici : http://code.google.com/p/songbird-samplerbox/issues/detail?id=2 ou directement dans les commentaires.

over 2 years ago
chriswyatt
chriswyatt

Problem with this under Ubuntu, when I use Ctrl-F2 it closes down Songbird :S

over 2 years ago
chriswyatt
chriswyatt

How would I make my own custom soundbank?

over 2 years ago
GeekShadow
GeekShadow

@chriswyatt
I will work on better hotkeys for next release
For custom soundbank I will post informations soon

over 2 years ago
martin_bighomer
martin_bighomer

@GeekShadow On this page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drum_kit are lot of great sounds and beats!

over 2 years ago
GeekShadow
GeekShadow

@martin_bighomer
Thanks ! I will take a look :)

over 2 years ago
kruffel
kruffel

Hey,

its great. Just what i was looking for. Is it able zu chance the hotkeys?

Thanks for the tool.

olaf

over 2 years ago
stoobz
stoobz

hey GeekShadow,

I installed it on win7 64bit and as soon as a song changes i get the windows error:

now-playing-x-skype has stopped working

Windows can check online for a solution to the problem.
-> close the programm.

any ideas what could be wrong?

thanx alot in advance!

about 1 year ago
stoobz
stoobz

oh sorry - forgot to post my songbird version:

Version: Songbird 1.4.3, Build 1438 (20091223030259)

cheers!

about 1 year ago
GeekShadow
GeekShadow

@stoobz
I think you commented on the wrong add-on
Your problem is from LiveTweeter add-on not supporting 64bit platform.

about 1 year ago
suppawith
suppawith

his is a really useful add-on and i use it as my bottom pane now. However, can you do me a favor and have the add-on stretch out across the whole area? Right now it's kind of huddled up in a corner. Just a suggestion. Thanks

10 months ago
GeekShadow
GeekShadow

@suppawith
you mean as a page ?

9 months ago
Kodakrome
Kodakrome

Merci beaucoup, malheureusement les reccourcis ne fonctionnent pas sur MacOS.

Avez-vous pensé à la possibilité de choisir ses propres raccourcis pour chaque sample?

Merci beaucoup pour votre travail.

A bientôt.

8 months ago
GeekShadow
GeekShadow

@Kodakrome
Je vais voir, mais beaucoup de raccourcis sont déjà utilisé soit par Songbird soit par le système d'exploitation...

8 months ago



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Name: SamplerBox


Author: GeekShadow

Contributors:
  • Seba Kerckhof - Dutch (nl-NL) localisation
  • Humberto Sartini - Portuguese (Brazilian) (pt-BR) localisation
  • muhengi - Turkish (tr-TR) localisation

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