Software sampler

[wakeupbomb]

Is there a good software sampler I can get that doesn't cost like $300 to buy? I'm running pro tools LE. I have Reason, but I only have LE 5.3.1 so it doesn't have rewire capabilties. I am going to be upgrading to LE 6.whatever, but I wanted to know if there was another one that I could use. Thanks.

[dopey]

i know what you're talking about... you can get an older version of soundforge for practically nothing on ebay.

version 6 has almost all the features of 7 FYI... sony sort of rushed the new release to get their name on the product...

just saw an unopened box for 6 for 100 US.

[AlChuck]

Sound Forge is not a software sampler, though you could use it to do fine editing of raw WAVs to use in a software sampler...

[dopey]

all the samples i've done off of divx movies has been with soundforge. I just set the recording device as the stereo mix...
then set the levels, record what i want and then edit and clean it up in the same application.
it that's not a software sampler what is??

[AlChuck]

A sampler is a type of MIDI instrument that can record and edit sounds to be played via a keyboard. Besides just recording WAV data, you set up layering of them with other sounds, ADSR envelopes, assign them to patches with note numbers, and save them as a sound set for loading up in the future on your sampler or others of its ilk. There are hardware samplers and software samplers (Reason, Halion, GigaStudio, Kontakt...).

Sound Forge, WaveLab, etc. are software applications allow you to record and edit audio data for all kinds of purposes -- and they might be useful in working on raw sounds in the process of preparing them for use as a sound set for a sampler, but in and of themselves they are not samplers.

Maybe you're confused by the use of the term "sampler" compared to the word "sampling," which usually means recording portions of audio data for use as a loop or snippet, like grabbing a four-bar piece of a groove or a hot sax lick from an old James Brown record to use in a piece of music.

[dachay2tnr]

Originally posted by wakeupbomb
Is there a good software sampler I can get that doesn't cost like $300 to buy? I'm running pro tools LE. I have Reason, but I only have LE 5.3.1 so it doesn't have rewire capabilties. I am going to be upgrading to LE 6.whatever, but I wanted to know if there was another one that I could use. Thanks.

You might look into Kompakt. It's under $200.

The editing ability is a bit limited, but it has a decent sound library.

If you want more editing, Kontakt would be the next step up. But, of course, you're back to over $300 I believe.

[dopey]

Originally posted by AlChuck
A sampler is a type of MIDI instrument that can record and edit sounds to be played via a keyboard. Besides just recording WAV data, you set up layering of them with other sounds, ADSR envelopes, assign them to patches with note numbers, and save them as a sound set for loading up in the future on your sampler or others of its ilk. There are hardware samplers and software samplers (Reason, Halion, GigaStudio, Kontakt...).

Sound Forge, WaveLab, etc. are software applications allow you to record and edit audio data for all kinds of purposes -- and they might be useful in working on raw sounds in the process of preparing them for use as a sound set for a sampler, but in and of themselves they are not samplers.

Maybe you're confused by the use of the term "sampler" compared to the word "sampling," which usually means recording portions of audio data for use as a loop or snippet, like grabbing a four-bar piece of a groove or a hot sax lick from an old James Brown record to use in a piece of music.

so those softwares make a soundfont out of a sample? or, ok something like that...(not just a .sf2)

i can make a soundfont with something i have sampled but i do have to use other software...

but, yeah... you're right; i know SoundForge isn't really a 'sampler' but maybe wakeupbomb just wanted to do some 'sampling'... heh

hope our discussion helps ya wakeupbomb!

[wakeupbomb]

It is helping thank you. I am acutally looking for a sampler, not just something to make samples for loops. I want something like Sampletank, or the ESX24 (is that the sampler, I can't remember)in Logic. I'm gonna have to check out Kompakt and/ or Kontakt, I've heard good things.

If you have any other ideas I would love to hear them.

[AlChuck]

PowerFX Dyad http://www.powerfx.com/ is a sample playback synth that you can use Sound Fonts in. This or one of the others like it are good economical choices. (Does Pro Tools support DXi? If not, rgc Audio has a freeware VSTi Sound Font Player:
http://www.rgcaudio.com/sfz.htm )

[dopey]

if it's soundfont support you want... has anyone mentioned that flstudio supports that quite well?

It does and it's a pretty good app for that sort of thing and rewire.

I know it seems cheap for the insanely low price but it would satisfy any soundfont use i can imagine.