Whats the best VST software sampler?

[sheever]

Kontakt is most popular...or gigastudio.

[zerocrossing]

+1 for Kontakt.

[iLovelamp]

112db morgana

emulates those old school samplers like the sps s50 etc etc

supposed to be pretty good

[Rocket Ronnie]

Have Kontakt. Don't like it. Goes to show popular doesn't mean shit.

[Pete Kaine]

Originally Posted by Rocket Ronnie

Have Kontakt. Don't like it. Goes to show popular doesn't mean shit.

No, it shows that you don't like Kontakt.

I always prefered the Yamaha A5000 and hated the Akai S5000. Doesn't mean the thousands of Akais sold over the years were garbage.

[Rocket Ronnie]

Originally Posted by Pete Kaine

No, it shows that you don't like Kontakt.

I always prefered the Yamaha A5000 and hated the Akai S5000. Doesn't mean the thousands of Akais sold over the years were garbage.

They were as it goes. Everyone now knows this now. Ensoniq were better.

[beingmf]

if you are on Windows, try the free (!) "Shortcircuit". Fantastic sampler!

[Pete Kaine]

Originally Posted by Rocket Ronnie

They were as it goes. Everyone now knows this now. Ensoniq were better.

:D

Poor example on my behalf then...

[Robert(AOS)]

+1 for kontak 4 if your using pro tools "only" i think structure will be better

[abiah]

Kontakt is hugely powerful but imo really joyless to use. It's really made for playback of library instruments, not for sampling.

bottom line, a sampler that can't sample isn't a sampler.

afaik there are simply isn't a sampler that built for the art of sampling. Motu BPM is great but it's for drums. Morgana is a great step in the right direction but it's wholeheartedly vintage, the lo fi is just way OTT for anyone not trying to sound retro. Ableton's sampler is ok, but it's ableton only, and the sound isn't so special.

It's a problem. Whoever designed BPM needs to make an instrument sampler, with the equally great filter & drive options, and sound - but above all, same ease of use.
Sampling should be fun.

[Robert(AOS)]

Originally Posted by abiah

Kontakt is hugely powerful but imo really joyless to use. It's really made for playback of library instruments, not for sampling.

bottom line, a sampler that can't sample isn't a sampler.

I agree.

the learning curve for kontak is long and painful "to many little windows and if you get to doing scripts for your own patches you will go insane" but the sampler itself is top notch the built in fx aren't bad neither. Once you learn to do what you needed to do is really straight forward.

Originally Posted by Stoneroses6300

We need to take some tracks we clipped out of cubebase and bring them to a sampler to hit a key on command that will play back in cubebase. What you suggest for a sampler? Whats most easy and intutive? Thanks

with cubase time stretch thing whatever is called just chop it up in a track if is just for that you don't really need to spend $300 on a sampler, and don't you have a lite version of halion that will do also.

[Realziment]

+1 Kontakt thumbsupthumbsupthumbsupthumbsup

[dz81]

+1 for Kontakt.

Virtually unlimited creative potential..

[zephonic]

Originally Posted by Stoneroses6300

We need to take some tracks we clipped out of cubebase and bring them to a sampler to hit a key on command that will play back in cubebase. What you suggest for a sampler? Whats most easy and intutive? Thanks

Although NI's Kontakt is somewhat of an industry standard, I think for a Cubase user who just need to do what you described above, you could either go with Halion (drag and drop audio files from Cubase's arrange page into Halion, it does not get any simpler) or, if you will not ever need a sampler's more advanced functions, maybe a drum sampler like Cubase 5's included GrooveAgentOne or NI's Battery.
If it's only to play back audio files from a keyboard they will do the job just fine.

[kilon]

The Best sampler in terms of fun and ease of use is Reason's NN-XT.

In terms of power is Camel Audio's Alchemy .

I never liked Kontakt.

[kilon]

Originally Posted by christosm

Kontakt +1 .. needs time but its solid, love the envelopes and the Pro53 LP is amazing for smoothing high frequencies

...

kilon dude

hi chris.. hope everything is going well with your life.

[korbes]

If the "sampler" is really only needed for what the OP described, then the before mentioned free Shortcircut or any other free sample-player vsti should be fine.

There are loads of free vsti sample-players/drum-samplers.
Check at KVR or the free plugin databases at GERSIC.COM free audio plugin database

[Red Mastering]

ableton live

one box with everything

I know it's not a sampler per se,
but it could be use a a sampler and it's great

[RonT]

1. Kontact is a pretty sweet sampler. It also comes with a huge library of sounds.

2. Reasons is the tits as well. Using Recycle to .rex a file is pretty awsome. You then play these files in Dr. Rex and can trigger the rex files in NN-XT or redrum. NN-XT by itself is comparable to Kontact and both samplers can play a host of different file formats.

I would get Reasons becuase you get way more out of it then you do with Kontact.

[iLovelamp]

Originally Posted by dz81

+1 for Kontakt.

Virtually unlimited creative potential..

112 db morgana

intuitive, easy to use sampler?

fl studio!!!!

(eff all you fl studio haters)

drag audio clip into step sequencer, hit middle c, voila, and has flstudio vst mode, perfect complement to cubase

seriosuly

[diogo_c]

I'm satisfied with Battery 2. Never felt the need for something else. Kontakt's libraries make it look atractive, but if I need a simple sampler I stick to Battery.

[korbes]

Revisiting this thread, I just realized that I have never heard of either Cubebase nor Reasons. How do they compare to their similarly named competitors?

[JimK]

I like KONTAKT because after years of researching and trying different software samplers, KONTAKT is the only sampler that you can apply PORTAMENTO on samples. Sure, tons of soft synths have portamento, but KONTAKT has a script that applies very reasonable portamento effect to a sample set.

I needed this feature because I wanted to sample a real old vintage synth (no good soft synth emu's) but needed portamento for performance.

KONTAKT is the only software sampler that I found that actually can do this. Sampletank has a glide feature but it doesn't implement portamento like a synth can do (closest other soft sampler found that tries to do portamento).

It's funny, my old AKAI S2000 was able to do this but no soft samplers (except Kontakt).

Things could have changed but I switched to KONTAKT about 4 years ago and other's may be available now that implement Portamento but Kontakt has become the default standard for all major commercial sample sets.

Jim

[Liquid360]

Kontakt has the most libraries, but the Emulator X has the best interface/filters/looping tools. It just depends on if you want to use other libraries or make your own from scratch.

[bugs]

Kontakt---end of story.

[abiah]

Originally Posted by JimK

I like KONTAKT because after years of researching and trying different software samplers, KONTAKT is the only sampler that you can apply PORTAMENTO on samples. . I needed this feature because I wanted to sample a real old vintage synth (no good soft synth emu's) but needed portamento for performance.

Reason NNXT and Abelton's Sampler do portamento. As do several lesser known vst samplers. NNXT is a great sampler.

[Jovas]

UVIWorkstation

[I.P]

Originally Posted by tresperros

ableton live

one box with everything

I know it's not a sampler per se,
but it could be use a a sampler and it's great

big + for this 1!!

[beingmf]

i think the OP has left the building