Reply To: Idea: The DAW is a Sampler

This would be cool!

I have always had in my imagination an idea where you can sorta use the piano roll as a direct sampler…. It’s a bit simpler than your idea, but maybe a precursor it…

You would basically drag wavs onto the piano roll and where the bar for the note is normally shown, it would instead show a wave which you can drag to what size you want… Also you would be able to change the fade in/out etc here too… Obviously like a sampler you would have to determine the pitch of the tune first before you go playing with it on the piano roll, unless it had auto detection like melodyne or soemthing..

In the track view, because you can’t see the piano roll, you would see the sample with C2, or G#3 or whatever note it was written on it…
This would be well intuitive and quite easy to grasp, also look and feel good since you always see the samples you are working with…