SOURCE is an open-source hardware music sampler powered by
Freesound’s collection of near 500k Creative Commons sounds
contributed by a community of thousands of people around the
world. SOURCE provides a hardware interface with Freesound and
implements different methods to search and load sounds into the
sampler. We see SOURCE as a proof of concept device that can
be used as and extendable base system on top of which further
research on the interaction between hardware devices and online
large ...
SOURCE is an open-source hardware music sampler powered by
Freesound’s collection of near 500k Creative Commons sounds
contributed by a community of thousands of people around the
world. SOURCE provides a hardware interface with Freesound and
implements different methods to search and load sounds into the
sampler. We see SOURCE as a proof of concept device that can
be used as and extendable base system on top of which further
research on the interaction between hardware devices and online
large sound collections can be carried out. This paper describes
the architecture of SOURCE and the different ways in which it
interacts with Freesound. Even though we have not carried out a
formal evaluation of SOURCE our informal tests show that SOURCE
can be successfully integrated into a live music performance setup,
and influence the creative process in interesting ways by being able
to quickly generate new rich sound palettes that would otherwise
be difficult to create with traditional hardware music samplers.
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