Specimen 0.5.1 review

Specimen is a MIDI controllable SoftSampler. Specimen is a MIDI controllable SoftSampler, written in C and GTK+

License: GPL (GNU General Public License) File size: 0K Developer: Pete Bessman

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Specimen is a MIDI controllable SoftSampler.

Specimen is a MIDI controllable SoftSampler, written in C and GTK+. For those who don't know, a sampler is an instrument that allows you to make music using sound files (aka "samples").

Here are some key features of "Specimen":
Up to 32 patches with 8 notes of polyphony each
Fast, high quality pitch scaling
Linear ADSR volume envelopes
MIDI/jack-transport syncable LFOs
Low pass filter with resonance
A variety of direction-independent playback modes
A zoomable sample editor for loop and play points
Portamento

Try it out and let me know what you think. Specimen has been written from the ground up with the goal of actually making music with it, and I'd like to hear how well/poorly it fulfills that ambition.

Requirements:
libxml2
libsndfile
libsamplerate
ALSA version 0.9.0 or greater
a recent version of JACK
and a recent version of PHAT.

What's New in This Release:
A few compilation errors were fixed.