Making one note stop when another is played (Hi-Hat sampling)

Question

How can I make one note to stop playing when I play another note?

Let me explain a little more, I'm developing a drum library, and have set 4 Hi-Hat options (Foot  Close, Closed, Loose and Open), they all have round-robins and velocity layers, and are set to 4 different notes.

I would like to have only one of these 4 notes triggered at a time, as if I trigger "Open" and then trigger "Foot Close", the first one would stop. Is it possible?

Answer 1

Thanks for your question! I've been working on this all last week, and I've just uploaded a new version of the sampler that adds support for this. The way to do it now is by putting your hi-hat samples in a separate group and using the (completely undocumented) "tags" and "silencedByTags" attributes as follows:

<DecentSampler>
    <groups>
        <group tags="hihat" silencedByTags="hihat" silencingMode="fast">
            <!-- Your hi-hat samples go here. -->
        </group>
    </groups>
</DecentSampler>

That being said, this is all a little experimental. I've made a blog post about my concerns here: https://www.decentsamples.com/2021/06/14/decent-sampler-now-has-experimental-support-for-legato-samples-and-voice-muting/

Comments

Thanks Dave, you're the best!
Just downloaded the latest version and gotta be testing it in a while!

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Hi Dave! Got the version 1.0.11, done some testing here but doesn't seem to work yet. Is it maybe because the drums are like "one shot" samples, and not held notes?

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Try adding `silencingMode="fast"` to your group(s). I will modify the example above as well.

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About the `silencingMode` attribute: a value of "fast" means we immediately silence, whereas "normal" means we trigger the ADSR release phase.

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Now I'm getting somewhere! Thanks a lot, worked just fine!!