Waveform Sampler, how to drop multiple files in
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- KVRer
- 2 posts since 3 Jan, 2025
Hey guys. I'm trying Waveform coming from Reaper and Bitwig. I use my own samples from my own instruments and in other DAWs I just drop the bunch selected sounds (61 files) where the sampler assigns each WAV file to one key so I can play the instrument. Same as TX16Wx, FL Studio, Cubase. If I try that in Waveform, I have to resize and assign each WAV file to each key. There is got to be something I'm missing. I know I can use TX16Wx plugin inside Waveform, but I want to use native sampler. Thank you for your help.
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- KVRist
- 42 posts since 13 Mar, 2008 from UK
I've not found a way of doing this. I can load multiple files but they all get allocated to the entire keyboard range by default, and then I have to adjust the ranges etc individually in the zones menu. There is a guide to Multisampler in version 5 of the Waveform manual, but I couldn't see anything about this issue. (Note, for some reason Multisampler doesn't feature in more up to date versions of the manual). You can make changes to multiple samples (attack, release, gain etc) by selecting more than one layer in the left hand area (Ctrl A is useful here), but that doesn't seem to work for editing zone ranges.
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- KVRer
- Topic Starter
- 2 posts since 3 Jan, 2025
Thank you for the reply. No way I can sit there with 88 flies doing each one just to play piano. I though I just didn't know how. Watched every video but there is nothing on the subject except assigning each key.
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- KVRAF
- 4891 posts since 3 Jan, 2003 from Vancouver
I don't believe it's designed to be excellent, merely functional.
It can open sfz files and I believe those are or should be easy to create. I should state for the record that in researching the answer to your question I tried to find and use a number of programs that can create sfz files and while I did end up finding something that A) existed, B) had a download link I could find, C) downloaded, D) actually ran, and E) was comprehensible enough for me to create at least one sfz file that works as expected in the Multi Sampler, I now wish to inflict harm on the entire world and will hopefully never try to create another sfz file again.
Hopefully your results will vary. It was sfzEd, by the way. I can't really recommend it other than it was the only one I found that wasn't much, much worse.
It can open sfz files and I believe those are or should be easy to create. I should state for the record that in researching the answer to your question I tried to find and use a number of programs that can create sfz files and while I did end up finding something that A) existed, B) had a download link I could find, C) downloaded, D) actually ran, and E) was comprehensible enough for me to create at least one sfz file that works as expected in the Multi Sampler, I now wish to inflict harm on the entire world and will hopefully never try to create another sfz file again.
Hopefully your results will vary. It was sfzEd, by the way. I can't really recommend it other than it was the only one I found that wasn't much, much worse.
Surely there must be consensus by now...