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Just the basics is what would fall in line with the audiotool paradigm in my eyes, no need for automatic pitch detection (if you don't know the pitch of your sample there is software that can help you.. I use GTune with wavosaur if I'm unsure) or any other fancy bells and whistles. Maybe a sample number limit, like 16 samples for instance would be in order, that is if we are able to save presets, to keep file size down. Sample mapping wouldn't have to be complex, just one sample per key would suffice, since you could get variation by say, having the filter be key/velocity scaled. Of course, root key per sample would have to be definable and both high and low key range would be great, but I've worked with samplers that just define a high key and it worked. Multimode filter with envelope and amp envelope plus LFO and we have a proper oldschool sampler.

I can see how there could be an issue when sample uploading is brought back online with bandwidth and storage problems, so I'd even be happy with being only to load one sample and use it in this way... heck when I can get away with it I prefer to use only one sample. Or maybe put a limit to total preset size... force people to sample creatively, just like a real hardware sampler.

We have to look at this realistically, since this is a cloud based DAW, which is probably the reason we don't have a melodic sampler already, it would take a lot of resources people started using tons of samples.

Another option might be a community supported rompler, where people could submit their patches and once approved, they could be used by the community.

Just some ideas. But my main point is instead of asking for a dream sampler we should ask for a do-able sampler.