Chainsaw Police
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Cyclist is a simple no-bullshit Windows program that browses a directory of short samples (only .wav is supported for now) and plays them. It has a loop function to play single-cycle waveforms too. Instead of hearing a short click you get the full waveform.

This should be good for people prepping samps for LSDJ, Piggy, Milkytracker, etc etc, and want to quickly browse their library of  short samples quickly and with no bullshit.
I made it for that purpose, but mainly for my own uses. After trying to prep some samples for Piggy, I thought this would be easy and a good way to exercise my programming skills for class next week. Productivity.

Download (v1.2.1) can be found at http://chainsaw.musho.org/software/cyclist/

I'll add mp3 (and perhaps ogg) support in a while once I get the time, and maybe even a little waveform view on the side. But for now, take it or leave it.
It was written and tested on Windows 8 (Consumer Preview), and I'm almost 100% sure it'll work on anything newer than XP. It uses nothing fancy or non-standard, and definitely nothing Win8-specific.
Not working on Wine, although I'll try finding a workaround if enough people wanna use it.

Thoughts?

Last edited by Chainsaw Police (Aug 9, 2012 6:47 am)

Victory Road
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The icon looks boss. I'll check this out later!

SketchMan3
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I got an error message in Wine sad

Chainsaw Police
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Bumping for the afternoon crew, also fixed a pretty annoying bug and added a proper formal webpage. Woo.

BR1GHT PR1MATE
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this is very cool indeed

egr
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Working nicely on my XP machines.  smile

Grab a butt-load of single cycle waveforms right here: http://www.adventurekid.se/akrt/wavefor … waveforms/

One suggestion:  It'd be nice if you could lock the loop button down so you didn't have to hit it every time

ant1
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this is cool smile i'd use it if i used picggy tracker

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If you want to get into wavetable creation, ive found this the other day:
http://lady.rdsor.ro/~kotro/index.php?m … dwavetable

I went ahead and exported all its examples wavetables (which might be the blofeld presets?) into wav format for piggun or whatever

http://www.toilville.com/piggy/BlofeldWaveforms.zip

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Also... you can use wavetables in ANY sample playback tracker or sampler.

SketchMan3
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Wow, that Waveform generator looks cool. All that stuff looks cool. This website looks so old.

Anvil Studio has a pretty cool graphical wave generator that lets you modify the shape, volume over time, and pitch over time. Great for making sound effects, drums, etc. I know that such things can be achieved through trackers and the like, but the paint-based format is really fun. I wish there was a standalone tool exactly like that for Linux, though...

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This is awesome! Haven't had an issue yet using Win7 64bit.

egr wrote:

suggestion:  It'd be nice if you could lock the loop button down so you didn't have to hit it every time

I also thought it by be cool to be able to change the tempo while the samples looped.

Last edited by NUCLACE (Aug 9, 2012 7:22 pm)

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Yea +1 on loop. I dont know how hard it would be, but maybe a plof simulator for a future version so you can simulate cycling through a wavetable? I posted a link to this on the piggy facebook for you, hope you get some more users and feedback.

Chainsaw Police
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egr wrote:

One suggestion:  It'd be nice if you could lock the loop button down so you didn't have to hit it every time

Ah, didn't think of that! I'll get working on a locked-down loop button in a few hours when I get home.

The Silph Scope
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Might try to do a Linux port in Qt or something if I get the chance.

Chainsaw Police
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egr wrote:

Grab a butt-load of single cycle waveforms right here: http://www.adventurekid.se/akrt/wavefor … waveforms/

That's exactly why i devleoped this, so I could browse that archive! I downloaded it ages ago, but got scared from using it because I had no idea what each waveform sounded like before importing it.

barbeque
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P E R F E C T for piggy. thanks! i will check it out tomorrow and letcha know what i think.