Using the H8000FW as a sampler and a MIDI keyboard to trigger playback

[wilkinsi]

Is this possible? I’ve just lost my temper with a piece of sampling software. I want to sample a piece of audio, stretch the audio, reverse it, then trigger playback on a MIDI keyboard. Additionally, I am concerned about latency, as in the time I press a key on the keyboard and the time I hear the audio. Or, is it because there is an inherant latency on all MIDI gear?

[nickrose]

You can do all this with the H8000, although I'm not so sure about the reversing. There is a Reverse Sampler preset, but I'm not familiar with it.

There is always a certain latency with MIDI. It certainly takes a millisecond to send a MIDI message, and then it takes a certain time to respond to it. I'm going to guess that most units (not just ours) would take maybe 30mS to respond. This is about a film frame.

If you really need minimal latency, you'll have to look for it – this is not something that is usually specified. My guess is that a hardware unit would be better than software in this respect.

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