I need a very basic sampler. I want to throw a bunch of drum hits at it and then start programing beats without having to fiddle with mapping for an hour.
Any tips?
simple sampler that does automapping
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- KVRist
- 418 posts since 8 May, 2003 from Somewhere in the triangle...
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- KVRAF
- 3345 posts since 8 Nov, 2003 from Amsterdam
How do you expect the sampler to know which is which?
The least you'd have to do is add the kick drum to C0, the snare to E0, etc. AFAIK the built-in samplers of eXT and Tracktion work very well for that (and more too). Currently I'm using VSampler, it's not completely intuitive (it takes 1-2 hours to understand its approach), but after that you just drag the kickdrum.wav to the C0 note on the keyboard (picture) and you're ready to play. In addition you can save it as a soundfont once your ready. Also nice to map several samples to a single note, either as velocity layering, or to just play random samples of the group everytime the note is played (for more realism).
The least you'd have to do is add the kick drum to C0, the snare to E0, etc. AFAIK the built-in samplers of eXT and Tracktion work very well for that (and more too). Currently I'm using VSampler, it's not completely intuitive (it takes 1-2 hours to understand its approach), but after that you just drag the kickdrum.wav to the C0 note on the keyboard (picture) and you're ready to play. In addition you can save it as a soundfont once your ready. Also nice to map several samples to a single note, either as velocity layering, or to just play random samples of the group everytime the note is played (for more realism).
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- KVRist
- Topic Starter
- 418 posts since 8 May, 2003 from Somewhere in the triangle...
No, the sampler doesn't need to know which is which and I don't care whether the kick is on C0 or F4, I just find out where it is and start from there.M'Snah wrote:How do you expect the sampler to know which is which?
The least you'd have to do is add the kick drum to C0, the snare to E0, etc.
Back in the good old Akai S2000 days I would just throw all my samples in one big wav, slice it up with Recycle and throw the Recycle file at the S2000. This worked really well, however these days I figured there would be more sofisticated ways to go about this.
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- KVRian
- 1469 posts since 18 Sep, 2004 from Suffolk, UK
I used to use Cut Rate Keymapper for this kind of thing. It only works with Akai .akp files, but if your sampler of choice an read Akai .akp's then you should be ok. If not, the source code is available, so maybe some bright spark can adapt it 
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- KVRist
- Topic Starter
- 418 posts since 8 May, 2003 from Somewhere in the triangle...
OK so if I find a sampler that reads AKAI's akp files then I'm ok.Lovesign wrote:I used to use Cut Rate Keymapper for this kind of thing. It only works with Akai .akp files, but if your sampler of choice an read Akai .akp's then you should be ok. If not, the source code is available, so maybe some bright spark can adapt it
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- KVRian
- 1469 posts since 18 Sep, 2004 from Suffolk, UK
Well, I guess so 
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- KVRist
- Topic Starter
- 418 posts since 8 May, 2003 from Somewhere in the triangle...
OK can't install and the VB5 runtime zip file from the page is corrupt, what now?Lovesign wrote:I used to use Cut Rate Keymapper for this kind of thing. It only works with Akai .akp files, but if your sampler of choice an read Akai .akp's then you should be ok. If not, the source code is available, so maybe some bright spark can adapt it
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- KVRian
- 1469 posts since 18 Sep, 2004 from Suffolk, UK
I never needed the VB5 files. What version of Windows are you running and when you say you can't install CRK, what is exactly happening ?
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- KVRian
- 1469 posts since 18 Sep, 2004 from Suffolk, UK
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- KVRist
- Topic Starter
- 418 posts since 8 May, 2003 from Somewhere in the triangle...
still doesn't workLovesign wrote:Get the VB5 files Here.
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- KVRian
- 1469 posts since 18 Sep, 2004 from Suffolk, UK
Explain what is not working
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- KVRist
- 260 posts since 27 Aug, 2004 from Berlin
an alternative solution:
1) download shortcircuit free
2) drag & drop or load the samples into it.
3) pay me money if you want to play more than two notes at the same time.
I'm obviously a bit biased though.
1) download shortcircuit free
2) drag & drop or load the samples into it.
3) pay me money if you want to play more than two notes at the same time.
I'm obviously a bit biased though.
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- KVRist
- Topic Starter
- 418 posts since 8 May, 2003 from Somewhere in the triangle...
short circuit free completely trashes T2claes@vemberaudio wrote:an alternative solution:
1) download shortcircuit free
2) drag & drop or load the samples into it.
3) pay me money if you want to play more than two notes at the same time.
I'm obviously a bit biased though.
I would like to buy it though
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- KVRist
- 391 posts since 28 Apr, 2002
Vsampler 3 is the answer. It's not really a "simple sampler", but it will do what you want. I know exactly what you're saying too. You have a folder with drum samples and you want to go in, grab them all at once, import them all at once, and have them instantly mapped to keys. Vsampler does this and also, NI Battery will do this. Those are the two that I've used but there may be other sampler that can do this.Slacknote wrote:I need a very basic sampler. I want to throw a bunch of drum hits at it and then start programing beats without having to fiddle with mapping for an hour.
Any tips?
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- KVRist
- 260 posts since 27 Aug, 2004 from Berlin
in a good or a bad way?Slacknote wrote: short circuit free completely trashes T2