Sampler improvements

First thing: I find myself using Serato Sample inside of Maschine a lot because it's just so much easier to do stuff like:

-Easily changing tempo and pitch independently, especially PER chop. You can take any individual chop, easily time stretch or key shift that chop. Reverse, filter, change the attack/release on each chop.

-Key detection

-Stem separation

-dynamic beat grids/warping for samples that aren't perfectly quantized

-ability to import .mp3's

-play the sample chop like an instrument with keyboard mode. (I know Maschine has this, but it doesn't time-stretch throughout the keyboard automatically like Serato)

The current workaround of going into the Audio Unit, adjusting tempo/pitch of a loop, resampling, then chopping is tedious and limited in comparison. So I'd also agree that combining the Sampler and Audio Unit would make sense.

Second thing: I'll second @darkwaves that the Sampling Zone section is SO full of useful potential, but so underserved, and a nightmare to use. Like he said, it doesn't need to be Kontakt but it needs to be easier to load samples (or loops!) into zones, and then give us more control over individual sample zones - like the ability to mute them, routing/envelopes, features from the sampler module, etc. Just imagine this possibilities..! With groups containing 16 sounds....and EACH sound having an entire keyboard worth of sample zones slots available.....if it were easier to use and access, easier to quickly assign samples to zone slots, and had more control, you could, say, put all of your drum hits for your entire set into ONE sound slot. And easily fit several full songs or an entire hour-long set of music just in one group!

*Gain or Outputvolume

*A second (or more) LFOs + Envelopes

*More modulation destinations for the LFOs and Envelopes (Env to LFO, Gain/Output, Filter Resonance, SR + others for weird experiments)

*HP / LP Filter

*Tilt Filter

*LFO Slew (Attack time for LFO)

*Curves/Slopes for all Attack, Decay and Release Parameters

*Mono, Left Channel, Right Channel Option

*Possibility to turn off Keytracking

*Round Robin

1: Meging of audio/sampler modules. Stretching algorithm is great for loops but is desperately needed on a per slice basis

2: stereo to mono!

3: option to preserve sample tempo in keyboard mode is also a must

4: larger variety of filters and modulation slots

Granular sampling capabilities / Expanded modulation options

I would love to see more "granular" related modulation options added to sampler OR a new granular sampler device if it comes to that. How? An extra LFO, loopable envelope (with smoothing/slew options), and widening the list of modulatable parameters, i.e loop points, loop position, lfo speed/amount, as modulation destinations. This intersects heavily with other user responses here for expanded modulation options.

Taking a page from the Mutable Instruments Shruthi modulation menu setup... with 10 modulation slots and 2 operator slots. Modulation is controllable / configurable on the Shruthi with two menus of four controls.

[Modulation Slot #] [source] [destination] [amount]

[Operator Slot #] [source 1] [source 2] [operation]

On the shruthi, turning the knob corresponding with the modulation slot control knob or the operator slot would scroll through the slots, info for each one displayed as you scrolled through.

operators applied to modulation were very useful on the shruthi; two modulation signals go in, perform some configurable defined math/logic operation or scaling, and the resulting modulation signal could then be sent to modulation destinations.

+1 for 'Real Time-Stretch' / pitch shift : playing samples across the keyboard, without them getting longer (lower pitch) or shorter (higher pitch)

Also, I'd love to have the sampling function memorize its input source setting PER GROUP.

So that I don't need to change this input source setting everytime I switch instruments for looping. (e.g. from guitar to mic)