Using keyboard to trigger sample replay?

[ElectroBlaster]

Is it possible to have a sample play by pressing a defined key on the keyboard?

I am no programmer, only ever messed a little bit with Amos, but would like to have 10 samples loaded in a sample bank. Then trigger each on with the function keys.

Can somebody please point me in the right direction?

Tia.

[adrazar]

This code could do as a starting point:

Print "Press ESCAPE to quit"
Repeat
   For KEY=80 To 89
      If Key State(KEY)
         Print "F"+Str$(KEY-79)-" "
         While Key State(KEY) : Wend
      End If
   Next KEY
Until Key State(69)

[ElectroBlaster]

Thanks

I have hardly any clue what I am doing with all this but I really want to
load in a bunch of samples, nothing spectacular, just bog standard 8bit iff's.

Then press a key so they playback! thats it.

So I would like to have F1 to F10 and each key triggers its own sample, ontop of that a bog standard dpaint drawn screen telling the user what to do!

I was sifting through years of accumulated stuff and stumbled upon something a friend wanted to make and it just never happend. The idea was to use the Amiga in a radio show thing he had been asked to do back in 1995. I think we never did find a program that could do the basic thing we wanted. I drew the screen for it, we created the samples. But that was it.

If anything exists, even just a code example I should be able to knuckle down and learn how to make this program (I hope lol).

[daxb]

I guess one of the Amiga Drumcomputer software can do this. A simple DOS or ARexx Script could do this as well (e.g. using keypressed from Aminet). The AmigaOS commodity FKey is another alternative.

[adrazar]

Here is a more or less complete guide for how to go about making such a program in AMOS Professional, it's not much work really but it might take some time to figure out each step since you're new to the language.

Samples:
Create a sample bank [Open Sample Bank Maker from top menu]
Load sample bank and play a sample [Use Load BANKNAME$ to load the bank. Find sample commands in the Audio section of Help; press F5 while the cursor is on an empty line to open Help]
Trigger the samples using the keyboard [Read function keys with Key State]

Picture:
Load picture [Screen Open ..., then Load Iff ... ]

[ElectroBlaster]

Originally Posted by adrazar

Here is a more or less complete guide for how to go about making such a program in AMOS Professional, it's not much work really but it might take some time to figure out each step since you're new to the language.

Samples:
Create a sample bank [Open Sample Bank Maker from top menu]
Load sample bank and play a sample [Use Load BANKNAME$ to load the bank. Find sample commands in the Audio section of Help; press F5 while the cursor is on an empty line to open Help]
Trigger the samples using the keyboard [Read function keys with Key State]

Picture:
Load picture [Screen Open ..., then Load Iff ... ]

This looks like what I am trying to make! I can make sample banks and I can display a picture! I dabbled with amos many many years ago. It was around the time when Amiga Format and C U Amiga gave Amos away for free.

I am still trying to hunt all of my amos stuff down, been a bit of a slog as I have amassed so much stuff, burnt to cdr's and dumped on hard drives over the years.

Thanks everyone for the help/pointers