Feature Request: play position modulation for the Sample
Basically do no more or no less than treat the Sample the same as a Wavetable where you can automate or modulate the play rate of that sample.
Nothing would change unless you send a modulation source to it, which would override the play position of the sample accordingly.
should allow DJ scratching, vibrato, random analog warble, tapestop, and more.
That would be enormously helpful: I often shy away from using the sample section because of its unpredictability.
+1 for this one. That would be a great feature and make the sampler a bit more flexible.
Would love this!
running a sample and hold to the sampler’s playback position would be kind of wild.
if you put a breakbeat in there you could do something like beat slicing.
can think of lots of ways to use such a feature.
Registered account just to request this so commenting to add support. I’m using sample section mainly as FM source and would love be able to modulate to different points/use longer sample containing multiple sounds. For such a simple addition would also add ton of functionality as actual sound source like the breakbeat idea in the comment above.
the wavetable engine already pretty much has it covered i think so i guess the sample player could just as well be replaced by another wavetable oscillator. or?
i guess the wavetable section only plays forward though, right? and i guess the wavetable section doesn’t have per sample playback control, just frames of many samples.
the sample player has the ‘pingpong’ forward/backward mode which is a different super power. but still, the ability to hook the playhead to a modulation source would be insane. do any other synths have that?
The sampler also has a random position start point.
Which means that the code is already there, we just need a knob to control the play position manually 
Using the wavetable engine is also fun, but not quite the same. But it’s still nice, though
good point!
Definitely needed. Should have been there.
i haven’t tried other formats than .wav for the sample player, but if there are other formats accepted like mp3 or other codec dependent ones, then i guess an array would need to be created in volatile or non volatile memory in order to modulate the sample position.