Reaktor is great, but one thing that i dont like about it is the built in sample management, you have to create these ‘sample maps’ to use your own samples but the UI for it is a bit rubbish, like an awful version of kontakt. so i built a tool to generate map files automatically.
UPDATED
I’ve built a new version in Java which is tested and working on both Windows and OSX. You can download the app here.
I’ll put the source up soon when I get a spare minute.
comments, suggestions, modifications are all welcome.
UPDATE 2
If you are wondering how to run a .jar file then you will need to first download and install java then you should then be able to just double-click the .jar file. If for some reason that doesnt work you can ‘Open With…’ and then find where java is installed, somewhere like : C:/Program Files/Java/jre1.6.0_07/bin and choose the ‘javaw.exe’ program.
February 9th, 2008 12:35 pm
cool! works nicely and saves time… thanks!
February 9th, 2008 3:35 pm
Congrats – this is fantastic tool!
February 9th, 2008 5:29 pm
I like this….if i click on a sample folder ie….”samba” and use it for both the map directory and sample directory it works great using 60 as the default. If I want loops it takes longer and I haven’t yet determined how long. Interestingly, if I open the “samba” file for both map and samples it doesn’t work at all.
Thanks for this as it helps in the mapping process which is painstakenly slow.
Steve
February 9th, 2008 5:31 pm
If you choose the loop option it can take a lot longer because it has to open every file and see how many sample frames are in it.
I’ll add some kind of progress feedback so you can see whats going on. Also i’ll take a look at the problem of using the same directory for both maps and samples.
What platform are you on?
February 11th, 2008 9:03 pm
Great app… Thanks! This will save me tons of time! Please post the source code.
March 25th, 2008 10:41 pm
Hi, can you please explain exactly how to use this app? Theres no obvious way to launch it and ive never used Java before. Im on windows btw
Thanks.
July 30th, 2008 2:10 am
This is great Martin! Nice one. Cheers.
August 21st, 2008 12:53 am
Nifty, thanks!
October 5th, 2008 6:24 pm
Hi, can I get a little more info on how to launch the app?
Thanks
November 3rd, 2008 6:15 pm
god damn it, dream come true!!
January 3rd, 2009 11:44 am
very handy and beats the reaktor interface, thanks!
January 16th, 2009 11:54 pm
Hi, I was wondering how to do this myself!
I have 700 samples I need to load into a map, but I need them mapped to individual velocities.
If you could post or email me the source code I would appreciate it greatly, I have some experience with Java.
Or, if you could link me to the Reaktor map specification that would be great too!
Thanks!
January 17th, 2009 12:09 am
Also, the directory navigation GUI under Linux appears to be problematic. I couldn’t open the directories by clicking on them, but manually entering the path worked fine.
January 26th, 2009 4:09 pm
Hi. It works well but theres small thing. Why root to just 60? Or is there a bug. I cound not add more than 60 samples (Intel Mac OS X Tiger) with root 60.
I could be happy with option to get mor samples there with same root, whatever root.
March 21st, 2009 6:02 pm
Wow, just discovered this freat tool after many years painstakingly inputting individual samples into maps in various reaktor sequencer. Takes to bore out of boring! Thanks
September 27th, 2009 6:35 pm
Incredible ! thxx
October 18th, 2009 8:25 pm
Ive set a map directory and audio folder, but clicking generate map doesnt do anything. Should I be expecting any sample interface to open?
March 16th, 2010 1:54 am
I love you for that !!!!!!!!!
August 15th, 2010 9:10 am
wish it could root to 127 samples would be easier for me
???
can you maybe fix this
or tell us how to do this ?
August 15th, 2010 9:41 am
sorry but my little problem with this is i have many maps with more than 127 samples
but when i use this app it only uses the first 127 samples what about the rest of the samples what i wanted to ask if they would be more than 127 samples can u fix that it renames the file to ex. rootmap1.maps than rootmap1-2.map for the next 127 samples or so and so on if there are more :p
hope u still read this blog thnx in advance
August 15th, 2010 12:15 pm
The reason there are 127 per map is because that is the limit for a sample map. well, im pretty sure that is the case, have you made a map with more ?
January 3rd, 2011 11:39 am
This is a great piece of gear. Just wanted to say thank you very sincerely for this – NI should have offered this years ago. I’m excited about the time/effort saving this will give! All the best, Cache.
May 2nd, 2011 4:13 am
Thank you .You have saved me sooo much time and effort. My productions are moving along smoother and my flow is smoother thanks to Reaktor Sample Map Generator.
May 17th, 2012 7:14 am
Great tool thanks reaktor is way cool
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November 11th, 2012 9:53 pm
Thanks so much for creating this—huge time-saver!
December 31st, 2012 4:19 am
Wow, this is great, thank you SO MUCH for sharing this with us. I found my way here via Twisted Tools.
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April 17th, 2013 11:43 pm
Thanks a lot! A very useful aplication!