There a tons of sampled musical instruments available in the internet, eg. here.

But how do you use them properly in a pure data patch? How do you make them "playable"?

I would like to make string instrument samples playable via MIDI in a pure data patch. What shall i do? Granular synthesis? Asign individual samples to individual pitches? I have no idea.

There is also another problem, i would like to play the instrument as long as the note is pressed, how do i achieve this?

Thanks in advance!

you need to get some solid basic pd theory down your guts.

http://pd-tutorial.com/english/ch03s04.html

enjoy

For everyone with the same question:

http://zhevny.com/specimen/

I found this programm to be very usefull.

I do it like this (see attached patch)

I makes them playable ... not that good but it's usable and you can easily duplicate to cover a full octave.

http://www.pdpatchrepo.info/hurleur/S_Sample_MidiSamplePlayer-DrumMachine+Looper2.pd

Neat! I will take a deep look at this.