Cutupsampler

Cutupsampler performs a cut-up of a sound file and maps the various cuts to keys on a MIDI keyboard or computer keyboard.

Cutupsampler is about embracing unpredictability as artistic inspiration; the software fractures your sound and you put the pieces together in new ways, performing them by hand.

Whereas most samplers are concerned with playing a particular sample at musical pitches on the keyboard, or playing discrete samples that are mapped individually to specific keys, Cutupsampler’s approach is to divide a single sound among multiple keys — fracturing the original sound, without any attempt to transpose the cuts to musical pitches.

Cutupsampler is provided free and open-source.  I am eager to know what you think of it, and would enjoy knowing if anyone finds it interesting or useful.  I am posting this as the first beta release; please check my downloads page (where there is also a link to an RSS feed) for future updates.

How was MAX used?

This project was written entirely in Max/MSP.