Hi Thomas,
In addition to convenience, The benefits of samm~ come from its integration into a system of signal-level triggering,
what exactly is the difference of samm~ compared to the long time existing iem t3 objects?
t3 uses time tagged triggers, samm~ sends clicks that are not time tagged. BTW in Pd-extended, the helpfile for t3_sig~ relies on some missing externals: for++, t3_del, and hpl~.
particularly with the soundfile player called player~ which I think has some nice features.
I'll definitely look into that one, although xsample also allows signal controlled sample processing.
Both groove~ and xsample~ have a lot more features than player~. The two features I likely about player~ are internal polyphony and sample-accurate triggering. (Perhaps xsample~ can do that too?)
Best,
Eric