Samples

Your own samples on the FM-1, up to 32 of them. On a track they come after LOOM-8's own: turn the sample engine's sample knob (or a drum key's, on the sample model) past the factory ones to user 1, user 2 and so on.

Connect the FM-1 by USB with LOOM-8 running, and use Chrome or Edge. WAV, AIFF, MP3 and FLAC files work.

Connect to see the samples on the FM-1.

or drop files here. Drop one on a sample to replace it.

Quality

How samples play

Root is the note that plays a sample at its own pitch on a synth track (a note in the file's name sets it: "piano_C4.wav"). Loop says the file is a loop of that many bars, for the slice engine: it then plays at the song's tempo, slice 1 on the lowest key. A loop stored in a WAV file is kept for the sample engine's loop mode.

Sending replaces the whole bank: the samples already there are kept exactly as they are. The FM-1's sound stops for a moment while it writes. Removing or moving a sample renumbers the ones after it, so a track that used one plays its new neighbour instead. The bank holds about 18 seconds at 22 kHz, 35 at 11 kHz.

Also from the command line: tools/loom_samples.py, in the source. LOOM-8 is GPL-3.0, built on fm1-base and Felucca by Leo Kuroshita (Hügelton Instruments). The manual's Samples section.