🎧 ScratchDeck & Sampler Engine

🎛️ 1. ScratchDeck – Virtual Turntable and Sampler

ScratchDeck is a unique module for interactive editing and real-time vinyl scratching:

• Virtual Platter (Vinyl Platter): An interactive turntable knob allowing you to drag and scratch the sample with your mouse (the Jog parameter).
• Jog / Speed: The Jog parameter (-1.0 to +1.0) controls playback speed and direction — positive values speed up, negative values play the sample backwards. This is not a separate "pitch bend" in the MIDI sense, but one continuous platter drive parameter.
• Reverse: Backward playback of the sample — achieved by negative Jog values; there are also ready-made reverse gesture curves available in the curve bank.
• Curve Bank: 12 writable slots with preset or custom scratch gesture curves, plus a single anchor point in the sample.
• Direct ElevenLabs Sound FX Integration: With one click in the ScratchDeck window, you can generate a new TTS vocal or AI sound effect (e.g., "Vinyl crackle scratch", "DJ vocal shout") and immediately load it onto the platter!

🔊 2. Sampler Engine and Audio Format Support

The Omni DAW sampler engine seamlessly supports all the most popular audio formats:

• Supported Formats: WAV, MP3, FLAC, OGG (decoding based on the Symphonia library).
• Automatic Resampling: When the file's sample rate (e.g., 44.1 kHz) differs from the engine's operating frequency (e.g., 48.0 kHz), the sample is automatically resampled using sinc interpolation with a Blackman-Harris window (the rubato library) — without manual user intervention.

✂️ 3. Transient Detection and Slice-to-MIDI

One of the most important features of the sample editor is the automatic slicing of drum loops (Slice-to-MIDI):

1. Slice Markers: Vertical markers appear on the waveform, which you can manually add, move, or delete.
2. Slice-to-MIDI Function: With one click, it transforms a drum loop into a set of samples mapped to consecutive pads/keys and generates a corresponding MIDI clip, allowing you to freely rearrange the rhythm!

🎚️ 4. The Sampler as a Device

The sampler is an audio track's instrument and lives in Device & FX like every synth: MIDI FX and the modulator drawer on its left, audio effects on its right. Below it opens the ordinary Piano Roll; there is no separate sample editor tab any more. Double-clicking a clip that plays by itself (AUTO) opens Device & FX, a clip played by notes opens the Piano Roll.

• Waveform: click to hear it from there (a tap plays on, holding plays until you let go). PLAY in the toolbar listens with the track's settings and effects, also with the transport stopped. Drag the gap between waveform and panel to resize the waveform.
• Envelope on the waveform: in the AMP tab the amplitude envelope is drawn over the wave. Grab Attack, Hold, Decay/Sustain and Release. In 1-SHOT a Release longer than 20 ms is a fade that ends the region.
• Modulate any parameter: right-click a knob, Add Modulation, or drag a modulator's cable onto it. MIDI Learn and automation work too. The old built-in LFOs and matrix keep playing in old projects (SETUP → OLD MODULATION).
• Direction: FWD, REV and PING work in every mode, WARP included. PING in a loop bounces between the markers, in 1-SHOT it plays there and back once. A loop plays in from Sample Start, then cycles between the loop markers.
• VOICES limits the voices; x2 / ÷2 / FIT BARS set the sample's tempo.

🔪 5. Slices, Pads and Sets

• Choosing SLICE chops the sample at once, switches the trigger to MIDI and opens the SLICES tab. Changing sensitivity or count chops again when the mouse comes up.
• On the waveform: click plays a slice, dragging a marker moves it (you hear where it landed), double-click adds a slice, right-click on a marker deletes it.
• Pads in the SLICES tab play when pressed; drag one onto a clip slot or an arrangement lane. The selected slice has its own name, key, level, tune, reverse and choke group.
• Sets: + makes a named set of slices. With it open, Ctrl+click (or the pad's corner) puts a slice in or out. The Piano Roll, Step Sequencer, Euclidean and Drum Machine then show only the set's slices, and only those play; the other slices' pads wait with their patterns. KEYS lays the set out on consecutive keys from C1.