Custom Samples

There are a number of ways to load your own samples in Zen.

loadSamples()

The loadSamples() function allows you to load samples that are publicly availble via a URL. It takes two arguments:

• an object whose keys are the name of the sample banks and whose values are the arrays of sample URLs
• an optional base URL to prepend to each sample URL

loadSamples({
  test: [
    'https://raw.githubusercontent.com/tidalcycles/Dirt-Samples/master/808bd/BD0000.WAV'
  ]
})

s0.set({inst:1,bank:'test'})
s0.e.every(2)

localhost:6060

Zen fetches samples via HTTP requests, looking for additional, locally served files on localhost:6060. To serve your own samples, download and install this simple package. Follow the instructions in the README.md and refresh Zen. Your custom samples should be listed in the console when you run the command samples().