I started converting an older Kontakt library today and it was rough at first, but once you get past that initial learning curve things sort of start falling into place from there. It is so satisfying when you load up an instrument you worked on and see it show up in Decent Sampler. Thanks again, you are such a blessing to the music community! Joyfully!🎹

can’t thank you enough brother. I just turned a vintage air piano bought for €20 at a thrift shop into a dspreset and it sounds otherworldly. keep up the good work 🗣️

how to go with velocity layers actually, and please also add compressor 😁

This is fantastic news, not least because it's you, so there's actually a very good chance that there's going to be a sensible direction and evolution 🍾🥳

Awesome that you've provided this excellent tool for free. What a gift. You are clearly talented musically, and in software and with sublime text editing skills. Impressed!

I followed your instructions this morning and sampled an weird but unremarkable little travel 12 string guitar into DS. I surprised when it worked on the first try. I guess you gave us some pretty darned good instructions.

Thank you. The free Decent Sampler is game changing. It opens up so many piano book libraries to a new audience.

Thanks David, this was great! I'm working to build a unit in building instruments in decent sampler for my students, and this video will be a great help. You make the coding aspect easy and less daunting.

This looks really cool, David! I’m interested in checking it out.

Damn, it's like a perfected SFZ! Thank you for this video, I'll be sure to look at this further.

I've created musics with Decent Sampler and free librarys. Decide to make my library too. Thank You for DS and this tutorial!

you had me at Sublime Text. So pleased that this is just XML. Makes perfect sense. Also I never knew you could edit multiple lines in Sublime. So double win for me today.

at first I could not get my head around this watching the video and almost noped out of it. Then I sat down, looked at some other dspreset files, and now I have a playable Korg M1 piano sample instrument with 4 velocity layers :D

I'm very new here. I've watched a few of your videos and really you're a great find sir. You've inspired and empowered me David, thanks so much!

This is a noble undertaking. Every language supports xml, plus you can define schemas for it, and it is built in to any editor. SFZ is somewhat near to xml but isn't. I envision fully in-browser editors and players in the future. Lastly, thank you for camelCasing the attribute names.

Hello David! Thank you for your excellent work with DS and merci beaucoup for your good educational content. I am going to sample an upright piano this weekend. It's a family piano that we sadly have to get rid of...I really wish to sample it because I first got into music with this instrument. Thanks again for all those useful insights.

Because you are awesome and made all this free. I'm going to release my first instrument free as well and make it only exclusively available for DecentSampler and Reason NNXT and of course, offer it free :) I'll try and make a video about the process. The instrument is "the Pig Flute", a contra bass flute which I recently made out of PVC pipe. Speaking of Reason, I've tried and tested your DecentSampler VST in Reason and so far it is working super smoothly! I'm not sure, but I think the Reason crew would PROBABLY be interested to also offer it as an RE (Rack Extension, Reason's native system)... not sure if that's something you'd want to look into, but just wanted to throw it out there.

What a wonderful project, thank you Ed Grimley

Perfectly explained and very well thought out. Thank you!

Nice work David! I'll try it soon 👍

Great initiative! The world needs a good free sampling platform that isn't tied to a corporation.

Very useful and thorough video. Really appreciate this resource!

Great Video Dave. Very Useful

Extremely cool video, thank you! Your explanations are perfect :)

Thank you David, very comprehensive.

Great stuff, I've been interested in making libraries with custom UI for a while but Kontakt seemed a little too complicated (well, now I've done my first DS library). btw, you forgot to mention you're the one who's behind the project!

Just when I thought you couldn't get any more awesome you go and drop this on us! Wow. Many humble thank yous. Peace~

Thank you SO much David!

Thank you, hopefully I'll be able to start making libraries to share.

This is super cool! I made a guitar power chord sample instrument once using the Grace plugin, and it was cool, but I think I need to recreate it using your application!

haven't created anything yet, but this video helped me fix this beautiful "frozen glock" library that had one of the round robins in a specific range 3 semitones above the others and it was very enerving. thanks!

awesome! gotta try it out someday

very well explained. thanks a lot.

Nice. Thanks for this!

That is so cool gonna sample my hunting horn and turn it into an instrument :) Thanks for the guide

I just came across this - brilliant. I sampled my French Mustel harmonium and tried to make an instrument with software called HISE but it defeated me. Maybe I can really do something with my hundreds of wav sample files!

Super David....

"Ultimately, I definitely expect to make a bunch of visual tools for creating sample libraries..." If Dave made it easier to create sample libraries with more visual tools, Kontakt would go out of business. Kontakt is older than me and to this day it is still unnecessarily difficult for beginners to create a single knob without learning a custom scripting language for Kontakt specifically, and the lack of KZfaq tutorial resources doesn't help. If Dave actually addressed the problem Kontakt never did, this would revolutionize the music production industry.

I'm enjoying decent sampler, you are doing a great job on it, btw is it possible to add different velocity layers to the preset file?

Oh no! I hope they update this so it's not such a huge hassle. In a hurry and just need to create a sample instrument in Cubase 12 right now, and suddenly found there's no obvious way to do that (built in sampler seems useless, no multisample) Thanks for doing the video though.

Nice!!!

Love this concept and I've had a go at making an instument but alas I am a poor hack, and have made an awful instument so far !!!! Couple of questions come to mind though, I'm making drum machines out of it, 1st a cheeky Amen break and then I hope to make a hiHat toy but .. I'm not sure how to get one sample to choke another, for a hi hat open choked by a HiHat closed. Also are there plans for multiple outs at some stage ? Is there a way to have a master tune / pitched for global for all the instruments, and a way to have a knob to tune pacific samples ?

excellent, like the editing textfile style when creating i prefer that instead of gui.

Excellent work! Was wondering (a) if you were planning on opening up the source code, or keeping it close (understandable if you want to have security for selling samples), and (b) how Decent Sampler compares in intended scope to HISE?

Hi Dave, I'm looking forward to trying this out. As a composer I think there are lots of possibilities and as I have a Computer Science background the markup looks very intuitive. I know you mentioned at the start that all the round-robins played at the same time which wasn't the aim, but it did sound quite full... How about a mode/button that allows you to play n-1 random round-robbin's down to 1 (fat to thin)... just a thought :)

wow, my yaw dropped. it hurts. lol, kidding. thx for sharing. i installed this on linux mint, must test. i am planning to travel the world, and record local musicians / instruments etc. will see how it goes was thinking about having something like this, and here it is - thx again for sharing have not yet delved into the docs, but will nevertheless suggest - maybe surge xt synth effects (open source) could be incorporated / magically dipped into ds engine thx for sharing, great work, have fun, aum, s love nia

Hey David! Im quite amaized about your work. I really needed a plugin like this which is more simple than kontakt player, but still has the same features. I made multi microphone drum samples from my acoustic drums and cymbals and i would like to import them into Decent Sampler... But related to this i have a question. Is is possible to programme the hi-hat articulations like, closed, open, and the cymbal chokes? Thanks for your reply.

Wow David thank so much for this Vid!! I have never heard of Decent Sampler until now and might consider creating this format in the future , I been creating more kontakt instruments all these years, question only one preset ? or can it have more then one??

Does this have the ability to add key-switches and note-off sounds? I want to sample my guitar and have all the articulations and noises included.

GRAZIE MILLE! :D

Nice work 👏 🙏 Is a visual preset create/edit tool still planned?

Hey Dave, I love the idea of the free decent sampler and the fact that instruments are just XML files (+samples of course). I use Notepad++ with XML Tools or also Eclipse for XML editing (eclipse does also feature tag auto close). Could you please tell me if there's a DTD oder XSD available to validate new created decent sampler instrument files?

Hey David, I have a question: what's the reason you wanted to create your own sampler? Were you dissatisfied with the sfz format? Because I noticed, for example, that the sfz-format has no "random" value for it's sequence mode, while the dspreset-format does (talking about a random round robin mode that doesn't trigger the same sample twice). Edit: and forgot to say, but it looks great! Really nice work.

Great David! thank you so much for your effort!!! I was wondering if you will going to add time synced in tempo loops, like load a drum loop and make it time stretch to the DAW's bpm. Is that possible? Thanks again!

This is actually kinda helpful. Just one question though, how do you insert the modulations?

GUI for logic,and other daws would be awesome God Bless Sir

Does Decent Sampler import EXS files? (Specifically for iOS; I’m trying to get EXS files into iOS and AudioLayer isn’t the best approach to it)....

This is amazing, are there any guides to convert from exs24 to decent sampler?

Now its also avalible for Linux❤

Nice! Is it open source? That would be really awesome

You'd mentioned it'd be easier to copy from a Kontakt instrument. Is it possible to open the Kontact info in a Text Editor?

Having fun with it so far, but it’s almost ridiculous how there isn’t one-shot mode

David, thank you for this. Can you please send me the Winter Felt Piano Free Prototype for DS? It has not been available for DL on PianoBook for months. Please help? I am looking everywhere for it. Many people downloaded it. Please, please help? Thank you!

Now I want to go and sample something and try to create a library. Is there a list of libraries that are compatible with Decent Sampler? I know there are some on pianobook but are there others out there?

Hi, can you please make a video on how you can use the Boilerplate?

Any examples on adding velocity layers? I'm guessing loVel and hiVel tags.

Hey, I tried to use the Contact page of your website, but it seemed to hang on both Google Chrome and Firefox. I was basically trying to ask if there's a way to modify the key bindings so that I can play more notes than just C4 and higher using my keyboard.

Hi David this was really interesting and very well presented . The text environments / engines etc your using in the demo are I think Mac specific but which produce product with a final file extension which can be imported by Decent Sampler on Mac, IOS and Windows . Do you know if similar coding environments are available in IOS or windows. If none exist then I think I could write a program in VBA which would achieve the same or similar programming environment for those folks wanting to produce sample libraries in windows ., perhaps with some added automation of repetitive and critically essential commands . Best LImbic ⌨️📡

Hi David, thanks for the video, liked and subbed ✅ George Mickel

I know you stretch it two Octaves what is the max you can stretch or device across the keyboard without it sounding unnatural is the original recorded sample?

hey dave, all is working however, when i zip it and send to my ipad, the image skin is no longer showing.??? when i check the zip on the i pad i can see the skin art is contained within, but it does not pop up on i pad. on mac all is smooth.. THANKS AGAIN

Hi , how do I get the Decent Sampler actually into ableton as a selectable VST, thanks?

I hpe this format does well (well enough to gain a visual editor!) Will this have a 1 to 1 mapping of all of SFZ 2.0 opcodes? It needs (at least) per voice LFO(s), filter(s) and amplitude envelope.

I SEE THE I PAD DOES NOT LOAD EXE LIKE THE DESKTOP INSTANCE OF DESENT SAMPLER, I WONDER IF THE SKIN ART FEATURE IS LIMITED IN IOS? THAT MAY BE WHY MY SKIN ART DONT SHOW ON IPAD DESPITE WORKING FINE ON MAC.

Hi David . I've downloaded Decent Sampler for Windows and i can play using the executable . But when i try to add the plugin on FL Studio it gets stuck :(

how would you map up and down strums captured wav notes across the keyboard to a keyswitch up and a keyswitch down activation switch keyswitch_up plays note_60_up.wav keyswitch_down plays note_60_down.wav i then can sample capture all my gutars fender acousticsonic strat, lp, etc..

The syntax is similar to HTML Edit: I understand everything I am just confused with the root note being “62” low note being “60” and high note being “62”? Thats where the note would be one the keyboard? I just don’t understand why 3 positions for 1 note if that makes sense?

I still get error for loading the samples i have tried exactly what you hare showing and alot of other stuff... What am i doing wrong

Merry Christmas! Can you share how to import Decent Sampler files into iOS (ie Pianobook DS libraries)? 🙏🏾

David, I tried contacting you via the form on your site. Would you ever consider adding loop crossfading to Decent Sampler? It's the only thing keeping my samples from porting from Kontakt. Either way, this is brilliant!

Hey David! I was very intrested to start using decent sampler so i installed it on my laptop (windows 10) but for some reason as soon as a load a library or click on the "my libraries" tab it closes (crashes) immediately. Is there a solution for this?

Thanks a lot Dave..How can we add pitchbend to our .dspreset or is it still in the works at the moment..

Is this really the only way to do this? Like its 2 years on, is there something with a GUI to do this.

Everything works fine until i try to load the instrument. It shows each file name and just shows ERROR next to it within DS

How to upload dspreset on decent sample website

4:20 this sounds like skeleton noises from Minecraft

how to get the decent sampler presets file to load it ?

Is there a way on how to convert a Kontakt instrument into a decent sampler one? If there is, is there a tutorial on how to do it? Kudos anyway :)

its possible to link the browse button to go to my libraries store or its posible to sell my libraries on your store or what would be your recomendarion on that matter, thanx

C4 MIDI number is 60 not 72 C5 is 72 this scale is one octave down 🙄🤔

And I understand when time allows you probly create a visual GUI interface

Is there anybody on here. willing to share any of the ones they have converted? Really looking for some good pianos

Is there way to do this on windows? @2:54

hello how to get this unique number

Hi David, greeting from me, maker of some VST (you can check my channel). I have 2 question : 1) Is it possible to protect the wav sampling so user can't see or grab the Wav when user use my library ? 2) Does Decent Sampler has Loop sync BPM-host capabilities ? Beside David, somebody can please help me answer this?

David did You created this ?

David, I made a comment but it keeps getting deleted. Why? No warning. It just throws an error when I try to edit it.

Plz give the code file plz for decent sampler

Oh my god it sucks that this is so difficult:(

Hey David, I was wondering if it would be possible to control descent sampler via cli commands or via a programming language. It would be amazing if you could, let's say: create a DS instance as an object, set instrument and values in that instance (maybe on creation or have the ability to manipulate it later), and then use that object to play notes of varying pitches and length. If you could do this with programming, I think there would be quite a bit of possibility that could open up. Im assuming your code is close source? So I haven't found a way (like using coding vst hosts) to manipulate it to work yet, but will like to try if you have any ideas on this matter. Thanks.