Foot-triggered samplers

[vomitHatSteve]

Any recommendations? I'm starting to look for one, but I don't honestly know where to look.

They must exist, but the closest I can think of seeing is Geddy Lee's organ-pedal synthesizer

[Lt. Bob]

maybe more of a foot controller ..... possibly MIDI?
Then it'd just control a sampler program.
Be easier to find than a bespoken foot triggered sampler I would think

[vomitHatSteve]

I definitely don't want to be bringing a computer on stage. I guess maybe a raspberry pi would be ok... alright. I'll investigate that some more. Thanks

[Lt. Bob]

I gotcha actually.
One of the reasons I use a keyboard for my backing tracks is to avoid having a computer up there .....
just don't like the way it looks .... karaoke-ish

There has to be something self contained like what you're wanting ..... let us know what you find ..... I'd be curious about that

[vomitHatSteve]

Will do.

It might end up having to be a high-end looping pedal. It looks like a lot of those allow samples.

I should ask my Sweetwater rep for recommendations too.

[vomitHatSteve]

Well dang. My Sweetwater rep recommends I buy a 900 sampler and a midi pedal to control it.

Fortunately, the band I might have actually needed it for just got our old keyboardist to come back, so he can handle the bleep-bloopy stuff.

[Armistice]

Will do.

It might end up having to be a high-end looping pedal. It looks like a lot of those allow samples.

I should ask my Sweetwater rep for recommendations too.

I was going to suggest that... mine plays samples, but it's pretty limited. Mind you it's over a decade old but at the time it was the top model (Boss RC-50) going. And loading them was a pain. Surely looping tech has evolved a lot since then and there will be more betterer pedals available.

[vomitHatSteve]

Josh at Sweetwater helpfully suggested a $900 stand alone sampler and a MIDI pedal to control it or a $900 looper pedal.

So the looper probably is the best option, but maybe I'll opt for one of the slightly lower-end $300-$400 ones.