I'd like to spend some money on a software that would help me to faster create sample-instruments like every-note-sampled-xylophone, or selfsampled piano & co. I like Awave & worked of course with the Scope Samplers incl. wav2akai, but I guess there are better solutions... In best case I'd like to create a program for multiple formates. Prelistening should be possible. Maybe auto-recognition of wav-pitches so that allocating keys would be easy.
What are the best solutions or do I have to buy a software sampler? Which one, if I like it simple and like to mainly create my own instruments?
Martin
Best Program for sample - program - creating
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How much money are you prepared to spend?
Do you already own a hardware sampler?
IMO, the ideal setup for what you seem to want to do wouldn't be an all-in-one solution. The front-end would obviously be a sampler, either software or hardware would be fine, but another option would be to think about setting yourself up with both software & hardware samplers so that you have the best of both worlds & maximum flexibility. There's so many different samplers these days that it's really difficult to recommend specific ones, but just as an example, you could combine something like Kontakt 3 very well with a hardware sampler if you had Sampler Tools by Chicken Systems, which contains Translator Pro as well as Constructor and Instrument Manager all in one package. If you're on a tight budget, you could consider just going for Kontakt or another good soft sampler & Translator Pro, but adding an Emu Ultra series or something like an Akai S3000 XL or 5/6000 these days is not expensive. Hardware Samplers that cost 2000 eu & more now sell on ebay every day for less than 200 eu because everyone is jumping on the soft sampler bandwagon.
Anyway, I can imagine something approaching an ideal setup that would enable you to sample with software, create sample based instruments & convert those to multiple formats including the format of your own hardware sampler, so that you could load your own instrument creations into your hardware sampler & play them as tight midi instruments anywhere you want. The beauty of that setup is that you could even work the other way round if you wanted - IE sampling with the hardware sampler, creating instruments on the hardware sampler, then converting to multiple formats including your soft sampler.
Do you already own a hardware sampler?
IMO, the ideal setup for what you seem to want to do wouldn't be an all-in-one solution. The front-end would obviously be a sampler, either software or hardware would be fine, but another option would be to think about setting yourself up with both software & hardware samplers so that you have the best of both worlds & maximum flexibility. There's so many different samplers these days that it's really difficult to recommend specific ones, but just as an example, you could combine something like Kontakt 3 very well with a hardware sampler if you had Sampler Tools by Chicken Systems, which contains Translator Pro as well as Constructor and Instrument Manager all in one package. If you're on a tight budget, you could consider just going for Kontakt or another good soft sampler & Translator Pro, but adding an Emu Ultra series or something like an Akai S3000 XL or 5/6000 these days is not expensive. Hardware Samplers that cost 2000 eu & more now sell on ebay every day for less than 200 eu because everyone is jumping on the soft sampler bandwagon.
Anyway, I can imagine something approaching an ideal setup that would enable you to sample with software, create sample based instruments & convert those to multiple formats including the format of your own hardware sampler, so that you could load your own instrument creations into your hardware sampler & play them as tight midi instruments anywhere you want. The beauty of that setup is that you could even work the other way round if you wanted - IE sampling with the hardware sampler, creating instruments on the hardware sampler, then converting to multiple formats including your soft sampler.
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Hm. Thanks, I'll look into it. I have the feeling, that I could need something like kontakt... I downloaded Translator free some time ago and was not satisfied with it's converting capabilities, but that does not have to be the programs fault... I did what I wanted with Reaper, Wavosaur, SFzed & Awave today and I am very happy with the results. It seems to me that Awave is VERY good for converting. Got some nice Xylophone for a Filmmusic & it will kick ass soundwise, as I sampled them MS (a very good idea that was)
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Yeah Translator free is very limited. They want you to buy the full pro license. I haven't tried their Constructor program, but it looks as if a lot would be possible with it. Interesting approach using SFzed & Awave!