STS Sampler versus Kontakt, GigaStudio, HALion?

enb141 · Post by **enb141** » Tue Apr 06, 2004 12:50 pm

Hi, I have used Kontakt, GigaStudio and HALion, 'till now my favourites are GigaStudio and Kontakt, what advantages have STS samplers against the other ones I mentionate before?

kensuguro · Post by **kensuguro** » Tue Apr 06, 2004 1:27 pm

ease of programming? STS is basically the same as AKAI samplers. In my opinion, giga and kontakt are more versatile, but harder to program. giga and kontakt are by far more advanced than the sts series.

virtualstudio · Post by **virtualstudio** » Tue Apr 06, 2004 1:55 pm

when you have a CW board with sts the advatage is money, you don't need to buy another vsti sampler,
and beside that I don't like the whole XTCmode I like to work in SFP mode. its a shame CW doesn't have midi-sequenser, otherwise I would not need an other program next to SFP.

eliam · Post by **eliam** » Tue Apr 06, 2004 1:56 pm

I used extensively the STS sampler and Gigastudio. Giga is superior in 1 aspect: the polyphony count, period. Setting filters, envelopes and modulation is much easier and natural on the STS. I tried Kontakt a bit and it is much more evolved than the 2 others in terms of flexibility and modulation possibilities. The interface is gloomy for me and the version I tried had atrocious bugs, but they are probably fixed by now, hopefully.
It all depends on what you want to accomplish: If you want to tweak your filters and envelopes and program a lot, then forget about giga. If you really want control, then Kontakt is best. I'm also checking the new e-mu softsampler, which seems really impressive, although I'll leave to others thefun of finding bugs!

sharcsound · Post by **sharcsound** » Tue Apr 06, 2004 3:00 pm

I use GigaStudio and find it is a super sampler and I'm waiting for the new GigaStudio 3.0 to be released next month with the vastly improved editor.

'GigaStudio 3.0 has a new Quick Edit window that gives you instant access to the most commonly-accessed parameters. You can still use the full editor when creating your own samples, but Quick Edit is perfect for moving a part down an octave, changing the filter setting on a bass sound, shortening the release time of a synth sound, or other common tweaks you might do when putting together an arrangement. Just close the QuickEdit window when you're finished, no need to save and reload the sound. Changes are saved with your GigaStudio performance, so the original instrument on your hard drive stays the same.

GigaStudio 3.0 now also has the ability to record samples directly into the program. Just hook your DAT machine, CD player or mic preamp to a GSIF 2-compatible sound card and start recording. GigaSampler 3.0 supports samples at 96kHz/24-bit, so you can capture instruments and effects with extreme detail. GS3 can record up to 32 simultaneous channels, so you can sample in surround or route DAW track to GigaStudio 3 for processing through GigaPulse. You can still import WAV files to put together samples from sound files on your hard disk, but now the premier sample player is now a sampler as well.' http://www.tascamgiga.com/intro.php

AndreD · Post by **AndreD** » Tue Apr 06, 2004 3:17 pm

hi,
my choice is kontakt..
i like the semi-modular concept.

zatvornik · Post by **zatvornik** » Thu Apr 08, 2004 3:45 am

Hi. I am sure, that STS sounds in mix much better, than HALion, Kontakt or Gigastudio. Is more transparent and more softly simultaneously. Not VolksZampler, namely STS 5000, STS 4000 or STS 3000. I do not speak about convenience of usage, I speak about a sound. Forgive for the bad English language.

Faybs · Post by **Faybs** » Thu Apr 08, 2004 6:54 am

I agree

craighuddy · Post by **craighuddy** » Sat Apr 10, 2004 8:08 am

Kontakt here.
Ram based samplers are kind of a thing of the past with the massivly huge sample libraries. STS is a good quick sampler, but Disk streaming is pretty muck a necessity these days to be taken seriously in a work environment

skwawks · Post by **skwawks** » Mon Apr 19, 2004 6:36 am

I can see how thst sts series may have been good in the past for users coming from experience with the akai platform .
I can hear how it sounds good using the akai samples supplied with the power sampler .
When it comes to trying to make an inst from samples one already has I have to say STS doesn't rate with kontakt which is the only soft sampler I've used except the exs24,which in my possibly misguided opinion doesn't sound as good as kontakt and is not as easy to program .
I would love a no latency sampler that was as easy to use as Kontakt but for me Creamware doesn't have it yet .Maybe they could get NI to make it for them .
GUI is almost everything.. except for sound and latency and out of those three the
only thing Kontakt hasn't got around here is zero latency ,but it ain't bad .
Cheers
Paul

mythalethe · Post by **mythalethe** » Wed Apr 21, 2004 9:59 pm

I shelled out for Kontakt and would definately say it is amazing compared to STS... You can do some freaky things modulating sounds with Kontakt!

Not sure how it would work if you don't have Cubase though...

cheers,

Myth

wsippel · Post by **wsippel** » Wed Apr 21, 2004 10:12 pm

LinuxSampler is becoming pretty cool. They plan a Windows and OSX version in the future (and a GUI, right now it's console and controled via JACK and MIDI).

But it's very impressive so far, GIG, DLS and AKAI support, disk/ ram streaming, Linear/ Cubic interpolation, several filters, sustain... VSTi support is planned and should be available when the Windows and OSX versions become available.

Oh, and it's free (beer and speech)...

http://www.linuxsampler.org

Right now, I'm using Kontakt on Windows and Linux (via VSTServer).
http://djcj.org/LAU/ladspavst/

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