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Started April 30th, 2008 · 7 replies · Latest reply by NoiseCollector 15 years, 11 months ago
Hi, I am using REAPER and I was wonderong -- which is the best vst sampler to use? One that I can trigger samples using my MIDI keyboard.
Thank you.
The best or the cheapest?
Here some nice free SamplePlayers:
Regards
I agree - you can build battery kits and use batter as a pain in the ass. but I would also suggest a tracker if you know how to use one - Or get SFZ and VSTi Host and Build your own Sets for any VSTi/SF player - The BEST! (that all depends on you and what you want) Play around with all of them and find one you like. ABleton LIVE is good... But its alot of learning.
i.ve got samplelord and i'm very satisfied. It reads everything. it doesnt have effects but i use vst plug-ins on it's channel and results are better.
NI Kontakt 2/3 work perfectly for me - they come in VST / AU and RTAS format. But actually they're just sample players as you can't record any Audio with them which is kind of stupid.
I used to use mellosoftron but there is not way to render to a wave file so I had to pan hard left and pan the accompaning track I was recording along with hard right (or vice versa) and then record the soundboard mix. My other option was to record a MIDI track and then route it to mellowsoftron and again record the soundboard mix. Talk about a complicated and needlessly noisy way to only have mono sample playing or play something in one voice that doesn't necessarily translate well to the sampler's voice.
Then I finally gave VST plugins a chance and got the free Minihost and the free paax2 and in one night, I created more sample patches than I have with mellowsoftron in almost 10 years. It's so easy, once you get the concept of presets. The documentation is a little sparse but enough to figure things out and there is a suport group at KVR. The pro version is cheap and I might someday get it but it does all I need. The looping function takes a fraction of the time of the mellowsoftron and other loop editors I have tried before to great frustration. It has decent reverb, delay and chorus and plenty of envelope filters and a nice glide function, and again it's free if you stick to 16bit sounds and one stereo output. I am old so 16bit 44.1k gives my ears all they can handle and leaves my PC free to crunch up to 30 tracks at a time. 10 years ago 4 or 5 tracks at 22.k was pushing it on my PC.
I messed with the ASIO buffer settings and got the latency down to undetectable levels without artifacts and can make click free looped sample voices with only a few mutli samples that sound good up and down the keys in about 2 minutes, which is a dramatic change of pace. Screwing with the old software and it's odd sound folder scheme was depressing. If only mini host or paax itself would remember that my VST patches and sounds are in two different sections of my audio folder tree, it would be much faster. I hate going to open a VST bank and it opening up the folder I got my last sample from, 8 levels down into my manic folder tree. I moved all my soundfonts to my VST folders but my sound collection is meticulously categorized into folders and subfolders and subsubfolders so I can find anything.
With paax2, I don't need to keep them all in one folder and can just point to the pathway they reside on and they are there everytime I click a preset. I tried some the free simple VST sample players but they are only good for soundfonts and one shots at best. Some of them seem downright pointless or unusable.