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theorize · Post by **theorize** » Tue Nov 20, 2018 5:05 am

I'm hoping to avoid the tedious work here and cut out some of the chopping and mapping. Kind of like some sampling programs I've seen that do it for various sampler formats, but I'm looking for one that includes XI as well, sometimes I use that format. my computer right now is pretty old and slow, and now I have to buy another vehicle so that wrecks my new computer plan for quite a while. So I figure why not just play with some trackers for now.

Ya I know about renoise but I'm planning on tracking in SunVox and FT2 (8 bit bubsy clone), so if I were to spend money on something I would prefer that it could sample other formats like SFZ also, it seems like just about everything imports that these days.

If anyone knows of anything I would appreciate it.

BertKoor · Post by **BertKoor** » Tue Nov 20, 2018 8:19 am

When you ask for sample a VSTi, the first thing that comes to mind is http://SampleRobot.com
Took me a while to find its export formats: wav, sf2 & sfz! (page 194 in the manual)

Do you know about this ".SFZ to .XI sample format converter" project?
https://github.com/ckald/Samplicity

theorize · Post by **theorize** » Wed Nov 28, 2018 5:23 am

No I did not know about that one... Thank you! I will check it out

I forgot about sample robot, all I could think of was chicken systems and extreme sample converter. Maybe that is the way to go, I'm going to give it a really hard look. Thanks for the tip, that plus Samplicity might be the money, plus I'll have all my patches ready to go as SFZ for later. I'll get some good use out of Element yet! I love the sound but it makes my PC cry like a baby. It's funny, it doesn't feel that much of a hit to spring for plugins but buying a new PC feels like buying a car.
Oh well I've been wanting to put some time into the XM format for a while now it feels more attainable if I can use my VSTs to do it in an ergonomic fashion. A while back I made it a project to build a legacy PC just for FT2 just to find out that high quality sound card options for sampling were almost nonexistent. yes my boss BR-532 could do the job in win98 but I just didn't want to work that way... I wanted fast sampling and immediate implementation. If I would have only waited a few more months to sell my HW synths I would have had it all with the new clone.

Seriously... thanks!

reusenoise · Post by **reusenoise** » Wed Nov 28, 2018 6:42 am

Disco dsp bliss can sample from vsti and export to sfz format, cheaper than Samplerobot and it's actually on sale https://www.jrrshop.com/discodsp-bliss

VariKusBrainZ · Post by **VariKusBrainZ** » Wed Nov 28, 2018 6:54 am

Also FLStudio and DiretWave, you might be able to get away with just using the demo Fruity

reusenoise · Post by **reusenoise** » Wed Nov 28, 2018 7:03 am

VariKusBrainZ wrote: Wed Nov 28, 2018 6:54 am Also FLStudio and DiretWave, you might be able to get away with just using the demo Fruity

DirectWave export in a proprietary format:.dw and with latest updates becoming a monolithic format

theorize · Post by **theorize** » Sat Dec 01, 2018 3:33 am

Yep I was a bit heartbroken when I saw the price of sample robot. It looks like bliss is what used to be HighLife? very interesting that may be my winner, I remember using highlife to sample to wav years ago with good results. Although, I've never heard of this JRRshop before... I must admit I'm a bit leery, but the price is right.

theorize · Post by **theorize** » Sat Dec 01, 2018 3:37 am

I'm just wondering, maybe I should just use a virtual audio cable and sample directly into the tracker, I've done it with a couple of standalone synths with results as you would expect, but I was kind of trying to get something that actually rendered the samples. Not sure if highlife does that or not, if not maybe I should just go that route.

Software that can sample VSTi to XI format?