24 Apr
2021
24 Apr
'21
2:43 p.m.
I just tested it and it seems to be a very good sampler which I probably
will use. However, I'm not sure that it handles all the dimensions a
Hi-Hat needs. For the Hi-Hat, a good sample library has several velocity
layers in every openness degree (not only open and closed HH) which
needs to be handled.
This is also one thing that's missing in the SFZ format. For natural HH
sound, the sampler needs to be able to handle both velocity and at the
same time (or HH trigger or trigger drum pad) with ac CC control (such
as a modulation knob or HH controller for the openness).
So for now, I'm still using Linux sampler and the GIG format for this.
Thankfully, the Linux sampler folks are actively maintaining their
GIG-related libs and programs. I think I will have to upgrade myself on
this topic again. Thanks for making me aware of
Decent Sampler!
Jostein
On 2021-04-03 17:51, Paul Davis wrote:
This is a public service announcement, since I suspect
that many here
will not be aware of this development.
David Hilowitz (0) recently "ported" (1) his new sample library
playback engine Decent Sampler to Linux. It is available as a Linux
VST3 plugin and as a standalone application (2) David's work was
substantially inspired by the work in the Pianobook community (3),
where people build often-complex sample libraries originally to "save"
real pianos but increasingly covering new territory (such as the
Winter Voices project (4)).
I am a little disappointed that David chose to define a new sampler
library format rather than use SFZ, given the developments with sfizz
over the last several months. However, both DecentSampler and SFZ are
text formats, and there are gratis implementations for them both. In
theory, DS -> SFZ conversion could be automated, though the other way
around may be more problematic.
Yesterday I downloaded 36 Decent Sampler libraries from the Pianobook
website, and although they are not all quite as awesome as I had hoped
for, some of them are amazing and all of them make a valuable addition
to the sample library situation for Linux audio/music workflows. There
are also some gratis and some non-gratis libraries for Decent Sampler
on the Decent Sampler website.
It would be lovely if Decent Sampler was libre as well as gratis, and
I hope we see quality SFZ libraries either gratis or reasonably
priced, because that format offers some features missing from Decent
Sampler. But for now, I personally consider this a wonderful step
forward for Linux-based musicians.
(0) https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCoAJ5JYKYTMubpTIsWi70w
(1) I put ported in quotes because I believe that DS is implemented
using JUCE, and so this mostly just involved changing the build flags
:)
(2) https://www.decentsamples.com/product/decent-sampler-plugin/
(3) https://www.pianobook.co.uk/
(4) https://www.pianobook.co.uk/library/winter-voices/
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