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sosayweall - Fri Jun 15, 2007 8:38 am
Instant. Affordable. Fun
Ever dreamed of publishing your own sampled sound as a VST instrument? Maize Sampler brings you the most affordable and quickest solution. Now, with just a few clicks, you can easily share your samples with musicians around the world, with no worries about your own content being extracted without your consent, by exporting to a VSTi directly.
Sound Development Made Easy
Simply pluck the propagated VSTi into any host, everyone can easily use your creation hassle-free. Your users will not be bothered with all the technicalities of setting up a sampler, they just load it up and go on making music.
Stop waiting. Grab Maize Sampler. Make yourself a sound developer.
Maize Sampler is a new breed of Sampler with some unique features: First of all, Propagation. Yes, it takes only a few clicks to export VSTis directly. Maize Sampler can also make Keyswitching between 12 layers of sound easily, making the live playability at everyone's fingertips.
Features:
*Propagation (VSTi export) with pre-defined UI styles
*Keyswitching between 12 layers
*Disk-streaming
*Sample-mapping, velocity layering
*16 channels, 4 stereo output, 32 polyphonies
*Supports 8, 16, 24 bit sample rate
*Built-in simple reverb and EQ
*Both VSTi and Standalone modes
*Comes with a Soundfont to Maize Sampler format converter.
The trial/free version can be used for free, but with some limitations:
1.The trial/free version can only load one instrument.
2.The trial/free version's propagated VSTis do not support layer-switching.
3.The trial/free version's propagated VSTis do not support custom graphic.
4.The trial/free version's propagated VSTis are not allowed to be sold or rent.
For more info and download links, please use the link below:
http://www.maizesoft.cn/msp/en/index.asp
If the download is too slow, please click here to download the trial/free version.
Maize Sampler is priced at 88 USD for each license. A 25%-off introductory discount is on till June 30th.
Maizesoft is founded by Xiang Cao. Cao has programmed several audio applications in the past few years, including Maize Studio.
Kong Audio is the worldwide[1] exclusive distributor and the acting agent for the licensing matter of Maize Sampler. Further customization and licensing inquires can be arranged through the distributor, Kong Audio. (info[at]chineekong.com)
[1]. Except for the market of Mainland China.
dreaddd - Fri Jun 15, 2007 8:49 am
thanx...on paper it def sounds interesting, i ll give a try,...
I must report tho about Maizestudio, i had ALWAYS crashes agogo while installing several different versions thru the last months...dunno why..(XP SP2 here..)
the sampler tho seems to work so far here...
Peace
reiti - Sat Jun 16, 2007 8:48 am
Sounds interesting. I need more information about the publishing and selling of own creations. the infos at the website are very poor.
Is the demo standalone too?
greets
moocher - Sat Jun 16, 2007 10:00 am
Any chance of a mac port?
dreaddd - Sat Jun 16, 2007 12:37 pm
reiti wrote:
Is the demo standalone too?
yes it is
Peace
reiti - Sat Jun 16, 2007 3:57 pm
dreaddd wrote:
reiti wrote:
Is the demo standalone too?
yes it is
Peace
Thanks .. i'll give it a shot
greets
sosayweall - Sun Jun 17, 2007 1:36 am
Hi guys, thanks for your comment and feedback.
@dreaddd, please feel free to open a new thread on Maize Studio here in the forum.
@reiti, once you have purchased a full license, besides getting the advanced features unlocked, you will also be granted with the right to sell the plugins propagted from Maize Sampler on your own, and we won't be taking any royalties from whatever you make from those propagated plugins.
@moocher, sorry, though Cao is interested in a Mac port and will be looking into it, it won't happen in the near future.
sinkmusic - Sun Jun 17, 2007 5:28 am
The gui is nice.
Can we make drumkits with the free version (many samples, each one at one key. SO this is non-layered).
Any info about the cpu use, the latency ?
What kind of samples are provided with the free version ? ANd with the full one ?
sosayweall - Sun Jun 17, 2007 6:34 am
Hi sinkmusic,
Yes, you can make drumkits (or drumkits VSTi) with the free version.
As for CPU usage and latency, Maize Sampler performs reasonably well in those aspects.
Currently there is only a small sampleset bundled with Maize Sampler, provided by Kong Audio. It's in the free version too.
dreaddd - Sun Jun 17, 2007 8:25 am
hi sosayweall
cool, i've already uninstalled MaizeStudio sadly after seeing those crashes, sorry...
but thanx as well, the sampler installed just fine and im looking forward to have a deep test hopefully this week
Peace
Tp3 - Sun Jun 17, 2007 8:39 am
Can you please add a walk-through tutorial (text/video) ?
sosayweall - Mon Jun 18, 2007 6:11 am
dreaddd, sure, have fun with Maize Sampler.
Tp3, could you let us know what part of operation do you need a tutorial?
Tp3 - Tue Jun 19, 2007 4:59 am
sosayweall wrote:
dreaddd, sure, have fun with Maize Sampler.
Tp3, could you let us know what part of operation do you need a tutorial?
Tp3, could you let us know what part of operation do you need a tutorial?
There aren't any "parts" but I meant to make a video showcase of the plug's operation. would halp greatly to sell it. IMO
sosayweall - Tue Jun 19, 2007 7:16 am
Hi Tp3, thanks for the suggestion. We will consider it and try to improve the supplementary materials.
Tp3 - Tue Jun 19, 2007 8:34 am
sosayweall wrote:
Hi Tp3, thanks for the suggestion. We will consider it and try to improve the supplementary materials.
Cool, then make it so BEFORE the 30th so it will make things a lot easier for me to buy the soft (I would have bought her TODAY)
Thanks
Lotuz - Tue Jun 19, 2007 10:42 am
This looks like a useful sampler, almost a simplified version of Halion
, but there's one thing that I ran into immediately that I don't like. 
I can't seem to grab the handles for the start and end points, so you have to adjust them by dragging or entering the values. This won't be a problem if the handles move instantly when changing the values, but they move after you change the values (in the case of dragging you need to let go of the left mouse button). So setting the start and end points visually is almost impossible, because you don't know where exactly the handles will end up when you enter the values. And when you want to set the start and end points by listening and repeatedly triggering the sample from your MIDI controller, you need to be able to adjust the values without letting go of the left mouse button.
JamminFool - Tue Jun 19, 2007 11:19 am
you CAN grab the handles, they are just really fiddly. the "hot" zone is very small...
Lotuz - Tue Jun 19, 2007 12:43 pm
This is harder than finding a girl's g-spot.
JamminFool - Tue Jun 19, 2007 12:56 pm
koolkeys - Tue Jun 19, 2007 1:08 pm
This is looking like a fantastic tool for the price. I'm already trying it out and I'm excited about the propagation feature!
Thanks!
Brent
Lotuz - Wed Jun 20, 2007 12:42 pm
Quote:
Page 4 of the included manual:
6) Controller: Allows external MIDI control for Volume, Expression, Reverb, etc.
6) Controller: Allows external MIDI control for Volume, Expression, Reverb, etc.
Also the start and end points? In steps of various sizes (large/medium/small)?
And how about zero point crossings?
JamesAnderson - Wed Jun 20, 2007 6:30 pm
Yes, if anyone who got this makes a VSTi or two, just drop me an email via the link to the left of this message. I know a tjere might be a few people who might be interested if they saw the output of this.
I'm new to KVR forums but have followed them for years, I'm right now getting ready to produce soulful/funky and gospel house, and some other things in other genres.
caoxiang - Wed Jun 20, 2007 10:50 pm
Lotuz wrote:
This looks like a useful sampler, almost a simplified version of Halion , but there's one thing that I ran into immediately that I don't like.
I can't seem to grab the handles for the start and end points, so you have to adjust them by dragging or entering the values. This won't be a problem if the handles move instantly when changing the values, but they move after you change the values (in the case of dragging you need to let go of the left mouse button). So setting the start and end points visually is almost impossible, because you don't know where exactly the handles will end up when you enter the values. And when you want to set the start and end points by listening and repeatedly triggering the sample from your MIDI controller, you need to be able to adjust the values without letting go of the left mouse button.
, but there's one thing that I ran into immediately that I don't like.
I can't seem to grab the handles for the start and end points, so you have to adjust them by dragging or entering the values. This won't be a problem if the handles move instantly when changing the values, but they move after you change the values (in the case of dragging you need to let go of the left mouse button). So setting the start and end points visually is almost impossible, because you don't know where exactly the handles will end up when you enter the values. And when you want to set the start and end points by listening and repeatedly triggering the sample from your MIDI controller, you need to be able to adjust the values without letting go of the left mouse button.
Thanks for the suggestion. That's really a problem. We update the waveform only when mouseup because the changes of start, end or loop point will lead to head buffer reload. So in order to enhance the sampler performace, we do this reload only after you decide where the points are.
However, I think there should be a way to make this more user-friendly. Will fix this glitch in the next version.
And we are going to add a external wave viewer for more detail points selection and loop area selection. This tool can be called by double clicking the waveform inside maize sampler. But this feature will take some time.
koolkeys - Thu Jun 21, 2007 1:49 am
That sounds like a good idea. Will this allow us to zoom into the waveform for closer precision?
Brent
caoxiang - Thu Jun 21, 2007 6:28 am
of course
Lotuz - Thu Jun 21, 2007 1:44 pm
Keep improving it.
Jake Jackson - Fri Jul 20, 2007 9:54 am
Can the developers let us know how things are progressing? A few words now and then will keep our focus on this sampler, which is so far very interesting.
caoxiang - Tue Jul 24, 2007 7:10 pm
We are developing the 1.3 version now. Up to now, the finished features are: low pass filter and ADSR filter envelope, reverb detail parameters control, layer names...
Jake Jackson - Wed Jul 25, 2007 9:06 am
Would be nice if these things could be modulated by velocity...
caoxiang - Fri Jul 27, 2007 1:39 am
I fogot to say that. There are note to cutoff and velo to cutoff features.
Karmacomposer - Mon Aug 06, 2007 6:49 pm
caoxiang,
If you could add grid snap to make it easier to move samples around visually, visual zoning AND layering of samples, loading of .wav files, a trance gate, arp and some other effects, such as delay, chorus, flanger, etc, I'd say you have a clear-cut winner here. I'd buy it without a doubt. (hint, look at imageline's Directwave for an example of how they do keymapping - it's awesome)
Mike
Karmacomposer - Sat Apr 18, 2009 12:41 pm
I bought this a while ago and it is very useful and works as advertised.
I have ONE complaint at the moment.
Even though you are allowed to make PARTIAL graphics for an exported rompler, you cannot change the entire skin and you cannot, under any circumestance, get rid of the MAIZE logo and its associated link.
I request that the MAIZE LOGO and LINK be either removed entirely for those that buy the product, or made much smaller, or create a right click menu that has an about or MAIZE choice.
As it stands right now, it is nearly impossible to make a product with MAIZE with that glaring logo (that is not ours) and no way to make it look different (except for the two tiny rectangles you are allowed to change).
One last complaint/suggestion. There is no way to save presets. People like creating their own presets, so having a way to save them (other than saving .fxp and .fxb files in the host) is very important and severely lacking.
Mike
caoxiang - Sat Apr 18, 2009 7:21 pm
Karmacomposer wrote:
I bought this a while ago and it is very useful and works as advertised.
I have ONE complaint at the moment.
Even though you are allowed to make PARTIAL graphics for an exported rompler, you cannot change the entire skin and you cannot, under any circumestance, get rid of the MAIZE logo and its associated link.
I request that the MAIZE LOGO and LINK be either removed entirely for those that buy the product, or made much smaller, or create a right click menu that has an about or MAIZE choice.
As it stands right now, it is nearly impossible to make a product with MAIZE with that glaring logo (that is not ours) and no way to make it look different (except for the two tiny rectangles you are allowed to change).
One last complaint/suggestion. There is no way to save presets. People like creating their own presets, so having a way to save them (other than saving .fxp and .fxb files in the host) is very important and severely lacking.
Mike
I have ONE complaint at the moment.
Even though you are allowed to make PARTIAL graphics for an exported rompler, you cannot change the entire skin and you cannot, under any circumestance, get rid of the MAIZE logo and its associated link.
I request that the MAIZE LOGO and LINK be either removed entirely for those that buy the product, or made much smaller, or create a right click menu that has an about or MAIZE choice.
As it stands right now, it is nearly impossible to make a product with MAIZE with that glaring logo (that is not ours) and no way to make it look different (except for the two tiny rectangles you are allowed to change).
One last complaint/suggestion. There is no way to save presets. People like creating their own presets, so having a way to save them (other than saving .fxp and .fxb files in the host) is very important and severely lacking.
Mike
Sorry for the late reply. We will try to make a better UI custom method.
Karmacomposer - Sat Apr 18, 2009 7:53 pm
Not a late reply at all - just wrote it this morning. Excellent support, in this case.
I would VERY MUCH appreciate a better UI - and more than likely, so would everyone else.
Thank you.
Mike
SampleScience - Sat Apr 18, 2009 8:07 pm
Good to know you cannot change the GUI completely & get rid of that Maizo logo. It would be could if you could customize the interface like Kontakt or the Combinators in Reason.
Karmacomposer - Sat Apr 18, 2009 8:11 pm
Samplescience,
Are you saying you WANT the Maize logo there all the time or cannot completely change the GUI?
I cannot tell if you agree or disagree with me!
Anyone that wants to create their own products will more than likely re-brand it with their product imagery and not Maize's.
Mike
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