That exactly meets my point about samplers:A lot could probably be done with reason. I probably would not. case study samplers. All I ever used NN-XT was for loading a nice sample bank. Never really needed to tweak anything in there, maybe a little ADSR, if at all.
There are 2 tasks that people want to do:
-quickly play with a single sample they have/found (and that's what our quick FL sampler channels achieve)
-load soundbanks as instruments and play with them
That's why I don't much consider 'simple' samplers like NN-XT, that is, samplers with no in-depth features but easy editing.
I don't think that many people:
1. have loads of multisamples on their HD that aren't in a bank already
2. can record noise-free samples, or have the time for, or have the real instruments to record (if they do, they don't need a soundbank of them)
3. want to bother re-doing a bank each time
To me, it's a huge job to craft a soundbank properly. Huge job in a quality recording, huge job in the looping & articulation. If that job is done properly, all you need is to load that soundbank and you don't need/want to see what's inside.
So to me a sampler should come in 2 parts: a simple player on the host side, with just the minimum controls like ADSR & filter, and an in-depth, complex editor, aimed at the few who will create soundbanks.
Merging both is a suicide, because if NN-XT had the features of the SoundFont specs, it'd need quite a lot of pages to edit them all, and no one would use them. So wanting an editor built-in a sampler can only imply reducing its amount of features.
As for the soundfont player in FL, yes it has some problems, but you must see it as a VSTi, as it was licensed, and we can't do much about it (except removing it).
I'd like to do a sampler, but the reason I won't is that I don't find it interesting to start one with the same goal as NN-XT, I'd prefer a bigger project, which would of course take more time.
Isn't there any error handling, like 'FL Studio cannot load the selected soundfont. Your computer may be low on memory'. Crashing in this instance is unacceptable.
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