kevmsmith81
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VST for playing your own samples?
Is there a VST that anybody knows of (included in Sonar or otherwise) that you can use to load your own .wav samples (ie single hit drum sample) and assign these to a key on the virtual keyboard?
Just that I found some nice drum samples, and putting them all in manually, one drum type per pack, is a bit of a pain in the backside. Would be far easier to do it in piano roll!
Thanks.
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Crowned One
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Re: VST for playing your own samples?
2015/06/12 08:58:58
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As far as I remember you should be able to add your own samples to Session drummer for drums. http://www.tx16wx.com/ The above is quite a good free sampler that covers most bases.
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kevmsmith81
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Re: VST for playing your own samples?
2015/06/12 09:01:00
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Crowned One
As far as I remember you should be able to add your own samples to Session drummer for drums.
http://www.tx16wx.com/
The above is quite a good free sampler that covers most bases.
Thanks for that. The only problem is I can never get any sound out of Session Drummer. Every other soft synth I have works fine, but if I load up Session Drummer, it's just silent. I will check out that other program, though. Thanks.
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Re: VST for playing your own samples?
2015/06/12 09:50:55
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I may be stating the obvious, but have you loaded an appropriate program? Session Drummer opens up "blank."
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Re: VST for playing your own samples?
2015/06/12 09:58:40
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What about Cyclone? That's still in SONAR, isn't it?
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kevmsmith81
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Re: VST for playing your own samples?
2015/06/12 10:12:27
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Anderton
I may be stating the obvious, but have you loaded an appropriate program? Session Drummer opens up "blank."
I'm pretty sure I did, but it's not beyond me to do something so stupid to load a program so I will check next time I load up Sonar. Thanks! bitflipper
What about Cyclone? That's still in SONAR, isn't it?
According to the Sonar features page, Cyclone is there. It's not one I've used so I will check it out. So I can load my own drum samples into that to use. Thanks.
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Re: VST for playing your own samples?
2015/06/12 15:52:40
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Won't dropzone also do that? I seem to recall doing that a long time ago for a drum sound. These days I use AD2, but used session drummer before I moved to AD2, and lots of other things in the past.
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Re: VST for playing your own samples?
2015/06/12 19:00:31
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I made my own favorite drum kits set using wav samples like these and dropping them into Kontakt 5. It allows you to set things up easily. There are quite a few YouTube videos covering a how to on this topic.
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Re: VST for playing your own samples?
2015/06/12 20:38:09
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☄ Helpfulby Grizzlylip 2015/06/12 21:02:07
+1 to Session Drummer 3. Here is a quick 3 minute video that walks you pulling sample slices with AudioSnap 2.0 as well (I forget which SONAR version you have).
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Re: VST for playing your own samples?
2015/06/13 07:25:01
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I'm sure there are plenty of very inexpensive and free samplers. www.kvraudio.com is a good place to search.
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Re: VST for playing your own samples?
2015/06/13 11:19:09
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bitflipper
What about Cyclone? That's still in SONAR, isn't it?
I have never used it but that seemed like it was ahead of it's time. Free sample players are UVI's player and DiscoDSP Highlife free version.
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Re: VST for playing your own samples?
2015/06/13 12:02:24
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I sampled my real drum kit , railroad spikes, blocks of wood you name it. Record them as standard 44.1/ 24 bit waves. You then load them into a wave editor and cut the front and tail ends as close as possible. It's also a good idea to maximize the level. Session drummer has a folder with all the kits in it. C:\Program Files\Cakewalk\Vstplugins\Session Drummer 3\Contents I made a new folder for "my samples" You need to load a kit into SD before it will play, it will be ghosted out until you do. Right click on PROG at the bottom and load a kit. When I find a kit I like I save it as a pre set so it's easier to load. Kits are saved with projects. You can load individual sound to each drum part. You click on the drum , example snare, now use the DRUM menu at the bottom and load the sounds you made. You can also right click on a drum and it will open a Load Instrument menu. You might have to browse to the above location. Real spooky to hear my real drum kit playing.
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Re: VST for playing your own samples?
2015/06/13 12:05:21
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mettelus
+1 to Session Drummer 3. Here is a quick 3 minute video that walks you pulling sample slices with AudioSnap 2.0 as well (I forget which SONAR version you have).
You can do that from the browser too. Just drag & drop samples into the slots (images). Exactly what OP is asking, I think. Pretty handy actually.
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Re: VST for playing your own samples?
2015/06/13 16:47:35
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+1, Session Drummer gets overlooked a lot for its simplicity, but it doesn't care "where" the sample comes from and will play whatever you give it (drag/drop from wherever your samples are).
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