[syntheweave]

As a sample-user, it would be great to have this available in the toolbox.

Just reusing the original recording of a sample is equivalent to drawing a photorealistic tracing of an image: it represents a ground truth, but it's not illustrated in any particular artistic direction. And this makes the multisample libraries available today akin to "dry references" - they can be convincing as reproductions, some of the time, but you're stitching them together like a collage of photos.

If you throw the sample into a synthesis engine you can push around the parameters, crossfade it into a loop, add some envelopes, modulation and layers, and make it a uniquely stylized instrument, and this is one way to take the source material to a new place by forgoing some realism.

Doing the synthesis through style transfer helps move it in a different direction: it gets outside the bounds of directly sequencing performance parameters and makes the performance a little more like an effect, helping to glue the sound. And I think that could be really cool if applied to arbitrary source material.