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?

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.

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

www.supersynths.com

Mike

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

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

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?

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.