🎹 Tone.js Samplers & Players

Samplers let you play back audio samples mapped to different notes. Players are for playing audio files directly with control over playback.

Sampler Example

Below is a simple sampler that maps a few piano notes to audio files. Press buttons to play notes!

Player Example

Players play back whole audio files. Click the button below to play a sound file.

Code Breakdown

// Create a sampler mapped to audio files
const sampler = new Tone.Sampler({
  urls: {
    "C4": "C4.mp3",
    "D#4": "Ds4.mp3",  // D#4 note sample filename is usually Ds4.mp3
    "F#4": "Fs4.mp3",
    "A4": "A4.mp3",
    "C5": "C5.mp3"
  },
  baseUrl: "https://tonejs.github.io/audio/salamander/",
}).toDestination();

// Create a player for a full audio file
const player = new Tone.Player("https://tonejs.github.io/audio/loop/FWDL.mp3").toDestination();