I Built the Most Expressive Sampler Plugin Ever

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I've been live-streaming the development of this plugin over the past week, and today it's finally out. Anima is a resonance-based sampler that finds pitch in unpitched sounds. You can turn table knocks into bells, rain into pads, or your voice into something else entirely.

It supports MPE, has a granular engine, and two sample slots that can be tuned to different scale degrees. In this video I walk through everything it can do.

In this video I start from a blank patch and walk through every control — ring, spread, life, the harmonic sliders, granular mode, all of it. I show how a simple iPhone recording of me knocking on a table becomes a playable, evolving instrument. Then I layer in rain, my voice, a harp loop, and a few other sounds to show how the two sample slots interact.

I also dig into MPE expression using a Push 3, automate parameters with LFOs and sample-and-hold, and at the end I throw a drum loop in to see how it handles rhythmic material. It's a full walkthrough of what Anima can do, with plenty of jamming along the way.

00:00:00 Preview
00:00:25 Intro to Anima
00:14:17 Playing Anima in MPE Mode
00:25:32 Using Anima in Granular Mode
00:34:58 Expressive Pads
00:38:48 MPE Without an MPE Controller
00:44:18 Modulating Anima with LFOs
00:47:44 Modulating Anima with S&H
00:53:44 Demo Song Performance 1
00:58:28 Demo Song Performance 2
01:11:36 Recording Audio into Anima
01:20:06 Sending Drums into Anima
01:30:37 Outro