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moffdnb - Fri May 04, 2012 4:58 am

Hey all,

I'm trying to find a simple feature that the big VST samplers dont seem to provide. I used to use Vsampler and shortcircuit but there gone now. My need is very simple and it actually doesn't even have to be a VST sampler as such. Even a standalong program would be great.

All I want is to be able to select a sample (Wave file) from my HDD and immediatley audition it on my midi keyboard. So whatever 1 sample I select is spanned across all keys and ready for realtime playback while I'm running my project in my DAW.

Can anyone recommend or suggest anything?

kbaccki - Fri May 04, 2012 5:04 pm

Tobybear Helios (VST) is what you need... tt's old, it's windows only, it's 32-bit, and it's yellow... but you can drag/drop single samples and it'll play back via keyboard (mapped to pitch, of course). Useful little utility for kicking off WAV files in a VST host. You can get it here: http://www.tobybear.de/p_insbag.html ... download the whole insbag.zip, and it's in there... I'm sure there must be other options, but that's the first that came to mind.

Karmacomposer - Sun May 06, 2012 3:30 am

Look at Groove Blox Live. It does that and more.

www.supersynths.com

Mike

thecontrolcentre - Sun May 06, 2012 3:41 am

moffdnb wrote:

I used to use Vsampler and shortcircuit but there gone now.

Last time I looked shortcircuit was still available for download. http://vemberaudio.se/shortcircuit.php

moffdnb - Sun May 06, 2012 1:17 pm

Thanks for those suggestions yall. Short circuit not working well in Sonar but haven't heard of the others. Checking them now...

moffdnb - Tue May 08, 2012 2:24 am

Helios wont play samples until imported. Still searching for this...

kbaccki - Tue May 08, 2012 3:24 pm

moffdnb wrote:

Helios wont play samples until imported. Still searching for this...

What do you mean "imported"? You should be able to drag from windows explorer into the helios window… I know it's not exactly point-n-click, but it's at least drag-n-drop… or did I misunderstand?

moffdnb - Wed May 09, 2012 1:56 am

in Vsampler i could simply point click or even use the arrow keys to flick through samples.

may sound trivial but when your going through 1000's of samples its essential for the way i work.

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