Developer Calle Wilund has released a free multitimbral sampler for Windows, TX16Wx:
After several years of on/off development, I finally got my act together (somewhat) during July of 2011 and fixed the few remaining features I wanted to add before publishing the plugin. The result is the first public beta release of the TX16Wx VSTi Software Sampler.
It is a 100% free VSTi Sampler with professional features and an easy to use graphical interface – and – one of the few sampler instruments, free or commercial, with a fully documented file format.
Not a preset-player or disk-streaming library engine, this is a plugin for you to make your own sounds, tweak and experiment. Bring back the fun of the old hardware samplers – in software.
Details below. You can download the free software sampler at Wilund’s site.
Note: The software is being released as a beta.
Features:
- Unlimited multi-timbral operation
- 128 voice polyphony
- 16 modulation slots per voice
- 24dB resonant filter
- Two LFO + Two modulation envelopes per voice
- Polyphonic glide
- Built-in sample editor
- Actually samples! Record waves straight into the sampler.
- Graphical keyboard mapping editor
- 4 Stereo + 8 Mono outputs
- 16 mappable controllers for automation
- Multiple loop definitions per wave
- Individual outs for keyboard groups (drums)
- Multiple keyboard scales
- Multiple trigger modes
- Mono/Poly/Legato operation
- Preview loaded programs and samples in your song before loading
- WAV/AIFF/AIFC/SoundFont 2 support
- Reads Typhoon compressed AIF files
- 100% documented XML-based sound file format. Anyone can write conversion tools.
- Low CPU usage
- Fully native, optimized for SSE2.
- 64-bit support
- Nice sound!
Downloads for Windows x86 and x64 are available.
12 Responses to “Free Multitimbral VSTi Software Sampler Inspired By Retro Hardware Samplers”
Please Wait
Not to be that guy, but would love an iOS port
Your software looks great, although I would not part with my Akais. Eight separate outs, perfect for seperate channels of mixing. I think it's funny that you can buy a hardware akai sampler second hand for a 100 quid. They are great!!
Real samplers needs to have access to the file system, which is sadly being denied by Apple.
IMO, "real" samplers need to actually sample; something that today's "library loaders" fail to understand.
Plus, I'd much rather have SampleWiz than my old Ensoniq Mirage (though, I miss her 8-bit grime and analog filter) or Yamaha SU-10. I agree that an open file system would be quite welcome in iOS but I don't think that should stop developers.
Wow, I can't wait to try this! Looks really feature-rich while having a nice GUI.
Seems like a lot of people have good things to say about SampleWiz.
Can it do fairly deep sample mangling?
It looks pretty goofy and I have yet to see any demos that go beyond basic sampling.
Ur telling me the last Samplewiz demo JR did was basic! Man I would love to hear what you can do with a sampler then
I have found that the basic AUSampler in GB is fairly powerful. Just have to take a minute to figure it out. It's a pretty basic sampler but it can map almost any file to key range and gives you some pretty strong mappable controls for normal synth params (reso,mod,cutoff) might take a minute to explore it if you are wanting to play with a great sampler that you might not know you had!
Beautifull…Thank you so much!!!
My first sampler was Yamaha TX-16W long, long, long time ago. It's nice to see it still has offspring
This thing is a beastmachine!
Gah, SSE (2!) required! Too bad. This one looks really promising.
Maybe I ought to upgrade.
… Nah, it's only been 10 years after all.