http://beta.musicradar.com/news/tech/tal-sampler-plugin-offers-an-old-school-sampling-workflow-624045
It might be called TAL-Sampler, but Togu Audio Line's latest plugin is not just a sampler player. In fact, according to the developer it's a full-featured analogue-modelled synth that uses a sample engine as a sound source and also provides a mod matrix and self-oscillating 24/12/6 dB low-pass filter.

Having said that, TAL-Sampler doesn't come with multi-gigabyte library. It harks back to the early days of sampling, when just small snippets of audio were used, and the focus is on fast loading times and an intuitive workflow.

That looks very interesting. However, it won't be successful without that multi-gigabyte library. Hopefully, they had the foresight to make it very easy to import samples and thus encourage third-party development. Who knows? In a few years TAL might become Apple's next acquisition.
 
[EDIT] The product page is here. After reading it, I'll take back my previous comment; this is meant to be a niche product, not an Alchemy replacement. The gimmick here is to emulate obsolete, er, vintage DACs (read: 8-bit).

Also TAL Reverb 4....which is included in TAL Sampler, and apparently is free...
 
http://tal-software.com/products/tal-reverb-4

if it can emulate the akai 950 filters.. it'll sell more.. I told patrick to , if he could to include that.
some of the "grit" the old samplers added was noticable when removed (in a bad way)
 
too much is over complicated now, and even though I buy medium range stuff software wise, I have a softspot for TAL's stuff.. as it's very good but as a bonus accessible to most.
 
how many use kontakt for actual sampling ? if you grew up with akai 950's 1000's and 3000xl's as a mainstay of your music in the late 80's and 90's+  then you get what he's doing. it's making you focus on the task in hand NOT worrying about big libs etc. yer k10 just 270gb of my 2nd laptop drive in sample libs :)
 
all the tunes folks liked that were in the 90's 6 floppy disks worth of samples and a few synths / drum machines... compared size wise.
 
people just get sample packs, don't do any creative sampling.. I'd say hhm 70-80% now.. partly due to copyright laws etc.
 
I got an email regarding it as I have his 101 / juno emulations also.. not as good as lush, but a lot nicer on the cpu thats for sure.. and the price is decent also.
 
http://tal-software.com/products/tal-sampler
 
 and as a final thing to say, it might help people make music more.. due to it not being uber expensive and not being DAW specific you can just trade files with a collaborator and just send the midi.
 
 

8-bit/12-bit grit is definitely a "thing" which adds to a sound in a good way in the right circumstances. It adds a nice crunchiness which I find requires little to no compression in a mix. Great on drums and bass.

Well its than n stupidly pitched up drum slowed back down to save that 1mb . a certain c64 muso had redone tunes on synths that are too bright and tinny. Funny how the 8 bit original sound better

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Well its than n stupidly pitched up drum slowed back down to save that 1mb . a certain c64 muso had redone tunes on synths that are too bright and tinny. Funny how the 8 bit original sound better

If you're talking about Rob Hubbard, I do recall one of his tunes, I think it was the music from One Man And His Droid, which was vastly improved by the addition of some modern bass. However many of those old 8-bit C64 tunes sounded phat and fantastic, as a kid I used to sit and listen to them more than playing the games.