Hello!
I have worked as an foley artist for about 9 years now. I’m tired of not getting the footsteps exactly as I want them.
My plan is to make my own sound bank with a lot of footsteps that I can play with my midi keyboard instead.
What I need and have not found on the market yet is a simple plug in (sampler??) that can help me record footsteps easily.
So imagine I have a scen where 2 people are walking.
I take up the plug in in Pro tools. Pick what sound I would like from my own recorded sound bank which I can choose from the plug in. For example “high heels on gravel road”
When I have that sound loaded I can start recording, and just by playing 1 note. For example C1 on the keyboard the footsteps are coming in that order I have recorded them. So I’m just gonna watch the screen and press as syncronized as I can to the heels touching the ground. So if I have maybe 20 individual sounds with high heel on gravel I want the first recorded sound to trigger and then the next one in line.
For example.
C1 - Sound 1
C1 - Sound 2
C1 - Sound 3
C1 - Sound 4
C1 - Sound 5
C1 - Sound 6
And all the way up to for example 50 footsteps. When I have reached the last recorded footstep (sound 50) I want it to start over again from Sound 1.
All the keys on my keyboard should be able to have a specific sound bank that I have recorded before.
How would it look like?
If you have pro tools. If you load in the Structure Free sampler that you find under Instruments in PT. That more or less how I want it to look like. Simple but effective.
On the left in that plugin where it says “Patch” - That’s where I can find my sound library in my computer to load in the sound I have recorded on whatever key I want it on. Kind of like browser?
Above the keyboard I would like to have my controllers. Gain, transpose etc.
If i press a key on the plug in I also want it to show me what sound bank is loaded on there.
Since there will be a lot of sounds in my library it would be nice to have a function were I can load different sounds. For example if I’m working on Interior scenes or Exterior scenes it would be nice to be able to load up and save different setups. For example if I chose Setup 1 all my interior foot steps will come out on the keyboard as I loaded them in before. And if I’m going to work on an exterior scene I can pick Setup 2 and get all my outside foot steps loaded out on the keys. Does it make any sense? 
Would be nice to be able to have at least 4 setups that can be saved. 2 for interior foot steps and 2 for outside.
And last thing again haha.. I would love to be able to have 2 different sounds on each key too. For example on C1 key. If i load gravel steps and pavement steps into the same one it would be nice to have a mix of those. If i can chose to have 30% gravel and 70% pavement..
Don’t know if its needed to have them on the same key. But if i have gravel on C1 and pavement on C2, if I somehow can klick on them so those sounds are activated and then mix 30/70% that would work too.
I hope this makes sense. I’m using PT for mac. Don’t know much about building a plug in, sampler, vst or whatever is the best for this idea Or whate even works. AAX ?
I know foley..
Hope it makes sense and sorry for the book
/ Mattias