Hosts & Applications (Sequencers, DAWs, Audio Editors, etc.) • Decent Sampler XML Generator - free app by Deskew Technologies

There are many cases where it is necessary to have a collection of samples available for sound effects. For example, those of us who play in Pink Floyd tribute bands (sometimes it seems like that’s about half the planet), have to deal with sound effects before and after many songs. The usual approach to managing sound effects and other short sounds is to put all your audio files into a sampler, either a commercial one like Kontakt (hint – stay with Kontakt 6 as long as you can, Kontakt 7’s new UI makes it harder to navigate, in our opinion) or one of the excellent free samplers such as TX16Wx from CWITEC. However, these applications are quite sophisticated and it takes some time to become really comfortable with them. There is however an excellent free sample player called Decent Sampler, developed by Decidedly, LLC. Their sampler can be freely downloaded and you can find more and more sample libraries (both free and commercial) on their site. It turns out that this particular sampler uses an XML file (don’t worry if you don’t know anything about XML, you won’t need to) to define what samples should be loaded and on what keys they should be placed. User interface controls such as attack, decay, filter cutoff and so forth are also available, again defined by that XML file. Now, wouldn’t it be nice if you could just easily load a collection of sound effects into that sampler and have them immediately available for use? Well, now there is! We developed this free application that just does one thing. You point it at a folder containing your sound effects and it creates an XML file that Decent Sampler can open and voilà, you’re ready to go – no pain involved.

Statistics: Posted by gainstage — Tue Mar 12, 2024 6:42 am — Replies 0 — Views 59