Building Kontakt, DecentSampler and SFZ instruments in less than 20 seconds

In this video I walk through the automation I have been developing to turn "monolith" style recordings into virtual instruments across Kontakt, DecentSampler and SFZ, which has been used to build various Pianobook instruments released by Christian Henson.
A big shout out to Dave Hilowitz for all his work on DecentSampler and help with Kontakt scripting. Also big thanks to Yaron and EvilDragon from Native Instruments for support with Creator Tools and Kontakt scripting.
Some links:
- Monolith automation: github.com/Ste...
- Monolith guide: www.pianobook....
- Claustrophobic Piano: www.pianobook....
- Autumn Piano: www.pianobook....
- Family Piano: www.pianobook....
- Kontakt Creator Tools: www.native-ins...
- DecentSampler: www.decentsamp...
- LUA: www.lua.org/

[@DavidHilowitzMusic]

Great video! Amazing to see the monolith generation in action.

[@StephenTallamyMusic]

Thanks for all your help with the Kontakt scripting and DecentSampler stuff for this

[@Markrspooner]

Amazing guide Stephen!

[@ProducersVault]

great idear

[@thomasschimmack1403]

Wow, this is brillant! Pure magic! Thank you very very much. Can't wait to try it myself! 😀

[@pxldj]

This is so useful, thank you so much!

[@StephenTallamyMusic]

Thanks for watching

[@hbrmetal]

May God bless you who stopped at this comment and your whole family, may you prosper in all areas

[@blackgoldaudio]

Great guide, appreciated..:)

[@StephenTallamyMusic]

Thanks for watching!

[@Limbiclesion]

I will contact the Reaper developer and introduce the goal and the model 🙏🙏🏿

[@faxinadu]

[@RS-pm8qk]

my brain hurts...This was the most complicated thing I've seen. Im a beginner in sampling, how do you suggest I get started? Using Kontakt or Decent Sampler? Do you need to learn all this code to?

[@StephenTallamyMusic]

Sampling a piano is a bit complicated and really the monolith idea is supposed to make it simple because if you follow the recording template you shouldn’t need to know anything really about Kontakt or DecentSampler. That said, if you are just starting out, it’s probably a good idea to start with the How to Sample series on the Pianobook channel as it walks through the main concepts of sampling ua-cam.com/play/PL7LAW76xUv7FttHDqimvaUXXzAntkwPha.html

[@strykeplaysmcjohnpickhypix1205]

@Stephen Tallamy Music is there any way to code decent sampler instruments to be MPE compatible? I know that in Kontakt you can create 4 seperate instances of the instrument and assign them to different midi channels to make them MPE compatible, but can you do that in decent sampler too?

[@DJAROK]

amazing video! and very useful stuff. I'm just getting ERROR: Monolith-0.6/kontakt.lua223: attempt to index a nil value (field scripts). Stack traceback :Monolith-0.6/kontakt.lua223: in main chunk ? i didn't get it what I'm missing.