Free VSTi Sampler : TX16Wx 0.9beta *update 11*

[Crackbaby]

Thanks for telling me on how to use the sf2's! I tried loading them as group and as program .. missed the last one eh

Several years ago i bought a couple of sf2 packs from emu with the sounds from most of their modules. Back then they were a pure joy to use as i think vst's wasn't really invented (i used them in an awe64 gold with 4(!) Mb )

With all these advanced vsti's we have these days, it's fun to get to play around with lo-fi and lo-tech sf2's! The sounds aren't exactly pristine compared to modern stuff, but with your sampler and it's modulation and filters i can give them a new life

One problem i ran into:
When assigning filter frequency to modwheel it seems that it's a non-logarithmic .. something If you don't know what i mean ill try to explain better :s
There's more interesting stuff happening 0-2000Hz than 18000-20000, but the range is the same when you turn the knob (i dont have a modwheel, just a knob)

[IbiM]

Slicing: on the fence really.

+1 for beatslicing (please jump over the fence!!)

[sinkmusic]

Slicing: on the fence really.

+1 for beatslicing (please jump over the fence!!)

+1

[elcallio]

Slicing: on the fence really.

+1 for beatslicing (please jump over the fence!!)

I'm experimenting with some beatslicing algorithms. As I said, biggest difficulty is fitting it into the UI... If I can make it work nicely it'll make the instrument.

[sinkmusic]

Thank you for caring, El Callio.
This may be a dumb question, but : what about a dedicated plugin for loop slicing ?
Maybe some sampler people using multilayers and stuff don't care about it, and maybe that it would be better to have more "focused" plugins to kep a better workflow, but that's true that you have some very nice features making every beatfreaks like me quite excited (drag & drop, etc) !
Maybe this woudl require too much work, but maybe also it is a question worth asking

[elcallio]

Thank you for caring, El Callio.
This may be a dumb question, but : what about a dedicated plugin for loop slicing ?
Maybe some sampler people using multilayers and stuff don't care about it, and maybe that it would be better to have more "focused" plugins to kep a better workflow, but that's true that you have some very nice features making every beatfreaks like me quite excited (drag & drop, etc) !
Maybe this woudl require too much work, but maybe also it is a question worth asking

Yes, I have very seriously though about using the basic engine to build both a "looper" and a "drumsampler" instrument. But it would indeed require a bit of work. In any case I want the TX16Wx itself "finished" to at least a 1.0 status, i.e have all basic functions perform as I want them + some bells and features to keep people happy for some time.

[sinkmusic]

[rockstar_not]

Thank you for caring, El Callio.
This may be a dumb question, but : what about a dedicated plugin for loop slicing ?
Maybe some sampler people using multilayers and stuff don't care about it, and maybe that it would be better to have more "focused" plugins to kep a better workflow, but that's true that you have some very nice features making every beatfreaks like me quite excited (drag & drop, etc) !
Maybe this woudl require too much work, but maybe also it is a question worth asking

Doesn't FL Slicex do this? I have a copy that I got on a cover DVD from a german magazine a couple years ago - seems that I recall this is exactly what Slicex does.

http://flstudio.image-line.com/help/htm ... Slicex.htm

I only used it once before my laptop bagged itself. I still have the cover DVD so I might give this a go again.

[Baconman]

In any case I want the TX16Wx itself "finished" to at least a 1.0 status, i.e have all basic functions perform as I want them + some bells and features to keep people happy for some time.

I'm glad you concentrate on the original goals you set up since they correspond closely to what I'm looking for in a software sampler.

No need for disk streaming or beatslicing - there are other tools for that if I need them. What I want is a tool that makes it easy to create my own sample-based instruments. And that's what the TX16wx is!

[Uncle E]

No need for disk streaming or beatslicing - there are other tools for that if I need them. What I want is a tool that makes it easy to create my own sample-based instruments. And that's what the TX16wx is!

Precisely. Now I'm just hoping for more vintage sampler emulations. Bring on the EPS!

[gpunk]

If you head over to the Renoise forum, somebody has already reverse engineered the RX2 format, It will be in the extensions forum and is open source too i believe

My search skills fail me. Cannot find (as yet anyway). You wouldn't have a link would you?

http://www.renoise.com/board/index.php? ... mats-tool/ there is one thread about it
The rest you will have to find yourself, sorry not much time last few days

[Baconman]

No need for disk streaming or beatslicing - there are other tools for that if I need them. What I want is a tool that makes it easy to create my own sample-based instruments. And that's what the TX16wx is!

Precisely. Now I'm just hoping for more vintage sampler emulations. Bring on the EPS!

This is turning a bit OT, I'd love that too. I have around 200 disks for Ensoniq samplers, mostly EPS 16+ and ASR-10, most of them sounds I made myself - including a couple of 5-disk sets that a friend and I tried to sell commercially around 1994 (we had a grand total of two customers. But the sounds were actually quite good, mostly sampled from my AKAI AX60 and my friend's Roland ROMpler, with some creative programming and good use of the ASR-10's effects).

So if someone was willing to make VSTi that could read Ensoniq EPS, EPS 16+, and ASR-10 instruments it would be a dream come true for me. For me it would be enough if it reproduced the sample playback and synthesizer parts (envelopes, filters, LFOs, modulation routings); the effects section would be easy to simulate with VST FXs, and the sampling and sample editing could be taken care of elsewhere. But of course, if it included the sample editing features of these instruments I wouldn't object

[dexterbella]

Just a thought on the slicing idea (could be talking rubbish so feel free to ignore me).
As you already support multiple loop points per sample (although I'm a bit unsure how this works in practice), how about an option to auto "slice" the sample into 8, 16 or 32 equal sized loops. A "Beat" option in the waveform display could then be used - when off playback as normal, when on different keys playback different loops rather than different pitches. The loop points and one-shot, reverse etc modes could then be edited as normal.
Fairly simple, fairly low tech "beatslicing"?

[elcallio]

Just a thought on the slicing idea (could be talking rubbish so feel free to ignore me).
As you already support multiple loop points per sample (although I'm a bit unsure how this works in practice), how about an option to auto "slice" the sample into 8, 16 or 32 equal sized loops. A "Beat" option in the waveform display could then be used - when off playback as normal, when on different keys playback different loops rather than different pitches. The loop points and one-shot, reverse etc modes could then be edited as normal.
Fairly simple, fairly low tech "beatslicing"?

Actually, I've implemented slices as just loops, and map them as you said. However, I'm using "proper" onset detection to find the slices. I'm struggling a bit with extracting the tempo properly (for midi clip export), and as I said, the UI does not really fit a slicer, so its a little clumsy.

A word of caution for the hungry though: I will not implement any timestrech/temposync of slices. That's just not in the books for this instrument, and seriously, that is what your DAW is for.

[Crackbaby]

A word of caution for the hungry though: I will not implement any timestrech/temposync of slices. That's just not in the books for this instrument, and seriously, that is what your DAW is for.

Well, as long as the timemachine and the dreamcatcher is still in i don't mind!