Is there a sampler plugin that keyboard maps?

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#9

This may be useful to watch.

It turns out I was incorrect, Swami and sf2 formats do support velocity mapping between different layers. very cool!

Cheers,

Keith

#10

Think I am going to abandon this… I have hundreds of 1-note wav samples and this is looking like a very large number of hours to process them with the tools that are available in Linux. Will put this down to experience (or lack of) and tuck these samples away for a later date.

Am going to stick with sf2 for a while as it is as simple as drag and drop with these and that is all I want with samples. Perhaps if I get deeper into music making I will be ok to spend the time processing my sound files but right now, just wanna make music. Best analogy I can think of, I want to just drive the car for a while before learning to be a mechanic…
Thanks for your help guys…

#11

Fair enough. I just want to point out that it would almost certainly also be a “very large number of hours” to process them with the tools that are available on Windows or Mac. It’s basically the same process, unless there’s some plugin out there I’m not familiar with (which is entirely possible).

Cheers,

Keith

#12

Dont know these programs, but there were many like this I found while searching yesterday…

Wow, just intended to pop a link there, but its turned into a full ad… !

#13

I don’t believe that any of those sampler VST’s will work on Linux (without the usual shenanigans involved in running Windows plugins on Linux).

#14

And I also don’t believe any of them will, fundamentally, be any better at doing what you are trying to do than the tools available on Linux:

Some of these are just soundfont players, similar to fluidsynth or Linux sampler

Others on this don’t seem to support much more than fairly basic sample playback with no mapping, but coupled with other tools, like envelope, filters and modulation, similar to samplv1.

The ones that do support keyboard mapping will still require you to do “a very large number of hours” of work doing that mapping if you are starting with sample files containing individual notes as wav files, just as you would with gigedit or Swami. Although I personally think that you should be able to pull together a single instrument’s samples into an instrument definition in Swami in less than an hour.

Yes, there’s a lot more choice on Windows (and, frankly, a lot more polish) but, ultimately, it’s a choice between lots of tools which all do much the same thing, in slightly different ways.

And, fundamentally, I don’t see any of these is going to do what you originally were looking for: to do keyboard mapping of multiple wav samples into a cohesive instrument definitions without you actually doing any work.

I think what you imagine to exist, doesn’t, on any platform.

Cheers,

Keith

#15

You can give Bliss a try: https://www.discodsp.com/bliss/

#16

Hey Paul…
Yep, I know… spent hours looking for something I could use as a plugin in Ardour, no luck there… Certainly will never return to windoze again, very happy with Linux (3 years now, never looked back). Open source all the way for me (sorry synthesis, Bliss is proprietry) but I am a little surprised that there is nothing in Linux that can do this, it can clearly be done ‘manually’ and ouputed using gig or sf2 etc…

Most things that can be done manually are often automated into these lovely plugins, I am guessing not so straightforward for wav files or someone would have done it. Not sure I should ask why, suspect the answer would probably melt my brain and dribble it out onto my nice keyboard. Had a look at the physics of sound before and its complexities were many and too deep for me to get into without a spare year or 2 to study it…

#17

Have you checked

#18

Thanks Robin… The 1st and 3rd ones are drum samplers, seem to have plenty of choices for those already in the plugin collections I have although I am starting to use hydrogen a bit more.
samplv1 was the plugin I had hoped would do the job for me but it does not map across a keyboard (unless I am missing some aspect of it?) and it only speeds up or slows down the sample in order to alter the pitch. This means there are only a few notes either side of the sample pitch that are usable.
Appreciate the suggestions though and I like some of the plugins from that german site…

#19

Redux is the only good sampler on Linux
Renoise Redux | Renoise

#20

Why would it take long? Just use 1 sample per octave.

#21

Here this lets you build sound fonts and will map whole sets of individual note samples across a keyboard with a single click. Also helps automatically loop attack-sustain samples.

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#22

LSP Multisampler is good if you’re looking to map drums.

#23

Thanks for the pointers…
Redux is not open source…
1 sample per octave… But most of the samples I have are single notes which means I could only use 3-4 either side of it before modulation/harmonics etc becomes an issue…
I can build soundfonts ok, but the couple thousand single notes samples would take a long time to process… But I have just installed Polyphone and it looks to be a very useful bit of software. Am thinking to use samplv1 to preview my samples, then Polyphone to create soundfonts from the sample I want to use. Not a direct answer to finding a wav sampler, but it does give me a work around… Thank you…!!

Seems to be a few drum samplers in my plugin collection (starting to enjoy hydrogen) so I dont think thats a problem, drum samplers just map single notes to single keys or triggers so not the answer to my need for a full wav sampler… Having said that, I have downloaded the collection of LSP plugins and will try to spend some time with them this weekend… Thank you…!

#24

For just a quick pre-listen of wav samples I just use any music player, of course only at the original pitch…

#25

SFZ is a easy format. Take a look at sfizz

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#26

Some basic SFZ tutorials can be found here: https://sfzformat.com/#making-instruments

#27

I have no problems using soundfonts, but I have a large quantity of single note wav files that I am trying to find a sampler that will map them across my midi keyboard.
Converting these wav files into soundfonts is not the same as finding an open source sampler.
If no such sampler exists, then that is my answer and will likely lead to me avoiding single note wav samples in the future.

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