Script to copy random samples to a new dir and optionally make an sfz or multichannel wav.

jeremy · May 29, 2022, 5:42pm

Here is a bash script to run if you ever wanted to copy random samples to a new folder. If you want, you can also create an sfz file and a multichannel wav file. I am using this for the voxglitch groovebox to load 8 random samples quickly.

gist.github.com

https://gist.github.com/jeremywen/66a305e66bf16f8bc198342c8aa25915

groove-box-utils.sh

#!/bin/bash
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# Requires:
#    sox - only used if creating multichannel wav files http://sox.sourceforge.net/
#    shuf - install on a mac with `brew install coreutils`
# Args:
#    -d | --source-dir   source dir to copy wav files from
#    -s | --samples      number of samples to copy to a new random dir
#    -r | --repeat       number of times to create a random sample dir
#    --multi             create a multi channel wav file from the random sample dir (must be same sample rate)

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jeremy · February 15, 2025, 9:10pm

removed sox/multichannel stuff and have a new link groove-box-utils.sh · GitHub