Need a simple free/cheap soft sampler!

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Pasz
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Need a simple free/cheap soft sampler!

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I'm looking for a simple soft sampler to use in DP4.61. I looked at MachFive and Kontakt but these plugins are waaaay to expensive for me. Is there a free- or inexpensive shareware plugin that I could use? I just need to play a kick sample. Choosing different samples for different velocities would be nice but isn't required.
G5 2x1.8gHz, 2.5gb ram, Digi002R, DP4.61, Mac OS X Tiger
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Tim
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Re: Need a simple free/cheap soft sampler!

Post by Tim »

DP 5 comes with NanoSampler (and more).

I've not tried it yet though.
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Post by Pasz »

I wasn't planning upgrading to 5... Please, someone know some alternatives.
G5 2x1.8gHz, 2.5gb ram, Digi002R, DP4.61, Mac OS X Tiger
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Post by jarok »

Hi

You can try the Crossfade Loop Synth:

http://www.collective.co.uk/expertsleep ... ooper.html

Price is 10 $ though. So its not freebie.

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Post by sdfalk »

PLuggo junior (free) may have easy sampler with it..as well as 11 other plugins.
I'm not 100% sure about that, but might be worth a look

http://www.cycling74.com/downloads/pluggo
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Persiflage
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Turntablist

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Although it is designed to be a turntable emulator, you can use destroyfx's turntablist for triggering samples (it will only load one at a time). Just send MIDI to it, and it will trigger the samples like an old-school casio sk-1 or other digital sampling keyboard. Its free and a lot of fun to play around with otherwise. Maybe not the best solution, but certainly one that would work.

http://destroyfx.smartelectronix.com/audiounits.html

I personally use iDrum. It currently goes for about $50, and plays well with DP. It comes with a decent but not spectacular sample library and will load wavs of aiffs.
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