Jul 10, 2020 19:00:00

A fierce man who creates & distributes a sampler exclusively for 'Touch Bar' of MacBook Pro appears

Marcos Alonso, a sampler creator who plays and outputs sampled sounds, has developed a dedicated sampler ` `Samplr for Touchbar '' using the Touch Bar of the interface installed in the MacBook Pro , and has released it for free. ..

Samplr for Touchbar · Multitouch Sampler for the Touch Bar
http://samplr.net/touchbar/

Free MacOS Sampler, Samplr For Touchbar – Synthtopia
http://www.synthtopia.com/content/2020/07/09/free-macos-sampler-samplr-for-touchbar/

Touch Bar is an interface developed by Apple for MacBook Pro, and you can touch, swipe, and slide the bar on the top of the keyboard to operate the application intuitively. The Touch Bar is a bar equipped with organic EL, and the display on the bar is a mechanism that switches according to the application.

'Samplr for Touch bar' developed by Alonso transforms such a Touch Bar into a dedicated sampler. You can see how you actually used the Touch Bar dedicated sampler by watching the following movie.

Samplr for Touchbar-YouTube


Eight colorful waveforms are displayed in the Touch Bar at the top of the MacBook Pro keyboard.

When I press the waveform with my finger...

A strange sound was heard. Mr. Alonso said that he developed this Touch Bar sampler as a 'project under isolation measures by the COVID-19 pandemic'.

You can also press multiple waveforms at the same time to create a chord.

You can also slide horizontally to play the waveform continuously.

Also, while playing the created audio sample……

It also has a function to change the playback speed.

Furthermore, if you press the 'R' on the keyboard...

It is possible to record using the microphone of MacBook Pro.

Of course, the recorded sound can be played back by the sampler.

Processing the sound to create a fantastic atmosphere...

It is also possible to loop part of the audio sample.

The Touch Bar sampler developed by Alonso can be downloaded for free, but it is said that future updates are not planned. Alonso positions the Touch Bar sampler as 'a demo of a sampler developed for iPad', and if you want to use more advanced functions, 'Samplr for iPad' for iPad seems to be recommended. The price of Samplr for iPad is $ 14.99 (about 1600 yen).

Samplr on the App Store
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/samplr/id560756420