Newbie Question - how to organise and play .wavs as instruments?

[AlbertMoon]

I think this question will seem ridiculously obvious to most here, but I am brand new to all of this.

After I made a purchase I got a free batch of samples. There are a lot of wavs for free here - each instrument has a range of notes as separate files. But I have no idea how to map them to the keys in my DAW - and do not have a plugin for doing this.

So, do you guys have any suggestions? I am sure there must be a good VST out there that covers wav organization and a way of allocating notes to keys (as Zampler does).

[thecontrolcentre]

A vst sampler/ sample player is what you need.

[whyterabbyt]

I am sure there must be a good VST out there that covers wav organization and a way of allocating notes to keys (as Zampler does).

I heard of this VST called Zampler, have you tried it?

https://www.pluginboutique.com/product/ ... 51-Zampler

[AlbertMoon]

Yeah Zampler works great, as it groups everything into banks of presets using an.fxb file.
What I am looking for is something that organizes a bunch of midi files (i.e. groups of instrument files of individual notes of a scale), so that I can match the .wav files to the keys on my keyboard.

[arkmabat]

This is a good list of freebie samplers:
https://bedroomproducersblog.com/2010/0 ... -samplers/

[arkmabat]

Midi notes are notation, not sounds. If you want auto-arpeggiation, a DAW like FL Studio has this in the settings panel of the instrument VST. If you want higher quality stock "midi sounds", you might be looking for a rompler.

[AlbertMoon]

Sorry, typo in my previous post - I meant to say .wav, not midi.
The problem is - how to get a big pack of audio .wav files to map to the DAW and keyboard - so, for example, I hit the C3 key and the 'ViolinC3.wav' plays - hit the D4 key and the 'ViolinD4.wav' plays. At the moment I have a big list of .wav files that are not allocated to anything. There must be a way of doing this, or surely packs of just .wav files (without a preset) would not make sense.

Thanks for the links by the way - I think the only one on there that would do the job is TX16Wx Software Sampler - I have played with this and you *can* drag and drop the individual .wav files onto its keyboard, and this *does* map the individual .wav files to the individual key - but when you have a pack of thousands of .wav files an entire orchestra with as many individual wav files to allocate as there are notes on each individual instrument.... well, it can get pretty tedious!
It is a pretty good vst if, for example, you have a pack of sound effects and you want to map them to keyboard keys - and have your files organized that way - yeah, *very* useful for that.
[note, however, I have only played around with this VST, not dug into the manual yet (those things are always so damn dry!). So, there may be a way of getting it to work better].

[Teksonik]

I've never used this tool but it may be worth a look:

"Have a folder of samples lying around just waiting to be mapped and used? We had this utility built in order to allow rapid and effective mapping of large sample sets to the SFZ 2.0 format, and figured we might as well make it public".

https://vis.versilstudios.com/sfzconverter.html

[AlbertMoon]

That looks to be exactly what I am looking for - I cannot thank you enough.
What can I say - you're my hero of the month (maybe year!)

[Teksonik]

My pleasure but don't thank me yet. Make sure it works for you first.

[AlbertMoon]

Sorry it took me some time to get back (life got in the way) - but yeah, it works very well. When you put a search in for Wav compiler - or organizer - it really should be the first hit.
Thanks again - officially hero of (undefined time).