SampleRobot

[theshaggyfreak]

I've been wanting to get a piece of software to help out with instrument sampling for quite some time. For those who haven't done it the hard way, it really is a bit tedious to go through the process of sampling even a basic sound. There's a lot of editing and making sure loop points work. SampleRobot has been out there for quite some time but it's always been a rather expensive piece of software to purchase. Well, they now have it set up where you can purchase it for specific sample players for the affordable price of $60 (US).

I ended up buying the Kontakt/Reason version of SampleRobot. Why are these two paired together? Well, this version of the software will kick out an SXT file which is mainly a Reason file but Kontakt can read it too. As a test, I set it up to sample the square wave of my NES using my new Chip Maestro.

The process was pretty painless and extremely simple. SampleRobot will even walk you through each setting that it needs before you hit record. Below is a Kontakt version of my initial testing of the software. I ended up opening the SXT file and re-saving it in Kontakt format.

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/6718229/NES%20Square%20Wave%20Test.zip

So, this is really a great piece of software to pick up if you want to make your own sample libraries. Samplerobot will even assist in creating libraries of acoustic instruments. Between synths and other various instruments, I have quite a few things that I sample in my studio. Anyway, I thought I'd throw this out there for those who might be interested in such things.

http://www.samplerobot.com/

Oh! They do have a Mac version of it now and it works fairly well so far. It's a bit quirky since it uses a WINE shell but it's better than rebooting my iMac into Windows all the time.

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I did a 2nd test and this time I sampled my Monotribe.

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/6718229/Monotribe%20Test.zip

Edited June 17, 2013 by theshaggyfreak