[Timo]

Originally Posted by nutrinoland

How about sampling the oscillator and then modulating it's phase with an LFO to mimic a free running oscillator ?

If that option is available on the sampler, that would be absolutely fantastic. Does Kontakt have that?

Hardware synths (like the Korg workstations), at least, don't tend to have that option. Samples on hardware tend to have a fixed pre-sustain region (for attack) followed by a loop region for indefinite sustain and release (programmed using an amp EG).

However, while modulating the phase (starting position) of a sample would be good for pads, strings and so forth that don't need to have a specific attack region of the sample, it might be disadvantageous for samples where the attack region of a sound is important, as it would randomly abruptly chop it off.

Thought it would be nice if you could allocate several slightly different samples of the same sound (with different phases) to a particular key, and then have it randomly select one of them when you hit that key. Or increment between them each time you hit the key. So they sound slightly different every time you hit the key. Of course the overall sample-set size would be a lot larger depending on how many multiple samples you allocate to each key, but it would sound more organic.