I can't even begin to express my gratitude for David Hilowitz, Christian Henson, and the whole Pianobook community for making this possible! As a musician whose budget for new gear/software/samples is - quite literally - $0.00, Decent Sampler and Pianobook are a goldmine.
I've just bought Komplete 14 Standard in Native Instruments' Summer Sale but I'm left wanting for sounds that are less generic and are more whimsically crazy. I reckon that Decent is the way to go. That's why I'm here. You did a great job of explaining the concept. You've sold it to me. You deserve to have more subscribers than you have right now. I'm now one of them. I was entertained and educated. Keep it up, Adrian.
Thank you so much! I really appreciate it. Check out the Spitfire LABS instrument, it sounds like that's what you're looking for. They are free and sound really good.
I got a craving for some weird scales the last couple days, and it got to the point where I finally wanted to figure out a decent MIDI controller setup for playing microtonal stuff. I've been struggling with different setups all day. Had something decent working except that my VCV Rack setup wasn't doing polyphonic pitch bend correctly, so I figured I'd google "free vst instruments" rather than making my own sound. (You see... I'm actually new to VST's entirely. Usually I'm way more DIY.) Anyway, your video came up and I thank you for it. I've actually watched more than a couple David Hilowitz videos, and had heard he added microtonal stuff this year; but I never tried it since it's not my usual sort of thing. But Decent Sampler handles everything and comes with so many great sounds. Coupled with the GeoShred MIDI controller, I can explore weird 22EDO chords to my heart's content now.
I just found this video one year later. Good job man! Very entertaining and informational. Thanks for clearing up my questions re: Decent and for the BoilingSwarm tip.
Even though I have thew full version of Kontakt 6 that I bought when I was in a position to pay that sort of money for a sampler at the time I'm still going to look into trying Decent sampler and also look into the Pianobook libraries once I get my external hard drive working on my new computer. Spitfire Labs is another really good free sampler. I will certainly try out guitar pad.
I think the reason no major developers are releasing libraries for the Decent Sampler is because it is only "decent" according to its name. It still lacks some features, but the main reason I see is that the copy protection is not up to the times. It's not as sophisticated as Native Instruments, iLok or Steinberg. Of course, other factors, such as the popularity of Kontakt, are also responsible for the fact that many companies publish their libraries for this very sampler. Kontakt is the industry standard. More and more developers are releasing their own, but I think Kontakt will remain the most widely used. If you want a real beast, only UVI Falcon and Soundpaint top Kontakt. Here you have a combination of sampler and synth. In Soundpaint, by the way, you can also create your own libraries and it's free. Features like Legato and RR are unfortunately still reserved for the company behind Soundpaint (8Dio), but it has already been announced that these will be made available to everyone in the near future.
I downloaded decent sampler on my Mac, and when I wanted to open it in Locig, the program (logic) immediately crashes and I haven't been able to figure out why. Does anyone might have any idea why that could ?
I started the process of downloading Decent Sampler to add to Ableton Live on my Windows PC. Unfortunately I received a prompt that said "Do Not Run, Program Unfamiliar, May Harm My PC". Is there any info out there on corrupted downloads for Decent Sampler? Or do you think this is a false positive? Any help is much appreciated.
I've never had any issues with the plugin. I would check on the Decent Sampler website or try to contact the developer, David Hilowitz, he appreciates feedback and people reporting all kinds of bugs.
Its becoming an alternative to Kontakt. Sure, Kontakt is better and more fully featured, but for many of us Decent Sampler is more than good enough, and the amount of content available is growing very rapidly.
Hi Adrian. Thanks for that. It was a good introduction for me into Decent Sampler for sure. I can't help but feel you missed an opportunity there with the placing of the controls. a little bit of shuffling and you would have landed your release and tone controls right over the screws on the amp and centred and release a lot of anxiety for any OCD viewers :-) Great video thanks.
Whats the point using this when most DAWs have an even more powerful free sampler build in? Logic , StudioOne , Live , Bitwig ... Does it have filter at all?
this is the problem with shreddage I bought, it's kontakt only and the fact their installer for native access doesn't work means I can't use my expensive pack I bought. middle finger to you NI and Kontakt.
When you see a library that REQUIRES full Kontakt, you know they're unlicensed. To get your library for Kontakt player, you need to pay NI some licensing fees and only then you can get it for the Player version. SO if you're paying 2000€ for a library and it requires full Kontakt, skip it. They're not doing what's required and are asking YOU to dish out their licensing fees by having to buy the full Kontakt. That's stupid.
In the Intro you said its not used by big company's and thats sad. but tbh, thats the hole point of it. Its to edgy, and completely free. a community thing. i think its right were it belongs
@@Adrian_ still a robbery when you need a 3rd party plugin and you need the full version. They are able to charge high prices because they have kinda like a monopoly. There's need for alternatives. Another problem in the industry is the iLok. I avoid software that uses it
@@eltonwild5648 Yeah the Kontakt situation feels to me like if you bought a digital copy of a Pixar movie, but then in order to watch it, you needed to buy the program they used to make it 😂
I can't even begin to express my gratitude for David Hilowitz, Christian Henson, and the whole Pianobook community for making this possible! As a musician whose budget for new gear/software/samples is - quite literally - $0.00, Decent Sampler and Pianobook are a goldmine.
Nice video, well done. Great to see a free sampler like this, especially with a community making samples for it!
Thank you for making this video and sparing me from spending money on Konakt. Also you speak English very well.
Thank you so much! I'm glad it was helpful!
I've just bought Komplete 14 Standard in Native Instruments' Summer Sale but I'm left wanting for sounds that are less generic and are more whimsically crazy. I reckon that Decent is the way to go. That's why I'm here. You did a great job of explaining the concept. You've sold it to me. You deserve to have more subscribers than you have right now. I'm now one of them. I was entertained and educated. Keep it up, Adrian.
Thank you so much! I really appreciate it. Check out the Spitfire LABS instrument, it sounds like that's what you're looking for. They are free and sound really good.
underrated channel
Right? Haha Thanks!
Great video man, I have never seen your channel but your production quality gave me the impression that you had at least 100k subs... Keep it up!
Thank you so much!
I got a craving for some weird scales the last couple days, and it got to the point where I finally wanted to figure out a decent MIDI controller setup for playing microtonal stuff. I've been struggling with different setups all day. Had something decent working except that my VCV Rack setup wasn't doing polyphonic pitch bend correctly, so I figured I'd google "free vst instruments" rather than making my own sound. (You see... I'm actually new to VST's entirely. Usually I'm way more DIY.) Anyway, your video came up and I thank you for it. I've actually watched more than a couple David Hilowitz videos, and had heard he added microtonal stuff this year; but I never tried it since it's not my usual sort of thing. But Decent Sampler handles everything and comes with so many great sounds. Coupled with the GeoShred MIDI controller, I can explore weird 22EDO chords to my heart's content now.
Dave Hilowitz's channel is goddamn amazing
I just found this video one year later. Good job man! Very entertaining and informational. Thanks for clearing up my questions re: Decent and for the BoilingSwarm tip.
Thank you for this simple to understand video. God bless! 😊🙏🏻❤
You're very welcome!
Thank you very much for a great presentation. Very helpful. Best wishes.
No problem! Thank you very much!
Love the Navi vocals
Thank you for making this video
No problem!
Thank you for this very informative video! Some of the free samples in pianobook are wonderful.
I'll have to install it and try it out. Thanks!!
Thanks so much for this video! You opened up my eyes. 👀
This is awesome and thank you for the video it is a beautiful way to explain.
Thank you so much!
Good stuff! Subscribed
I agree. Me too.
Awesome! Thanks for explaining all that!
No problem!
Thank you! Very useful. Cheers, Dean
I'm glad it was helpful!
Geez this is so much better than Kontakt......
Great video!
Thank you very much!
Even though I have thew full version of Kontakt 6 that I bought when I was in a position to pay that sort of money for
a sampler at the time I'm still going to look into trying Decent sampler and also look into the Pianobook libraries
once I get my external hard drive working on my new computer. Spitfire Labs is another really good free sampler.
I will certainly try out guitar pad.
I think the reason no major developers are releasing libraries for the Decent Sampler is because it is only "decent" according to its name. It still lacks some features, but the main reason I see is that the copy protection is not up to the times. It's not as sophisticated as Native Instruments, iLok or Steinberg. Of course, other factors, such as the popularity of Kontakt, are also responsible for the fact that many companies publish their libraries for this very sampler. Kontakt is the industry standard. More and more developers are releasing their own, but I think Kontakt will remain the most widely used.
If you want a real beast, only UVI Falcon and Soundpaint top Kontakt. Here you have a combination of sampler and synth. In Soundpaint, by the way, you can also create your own libraries and it's free. Features like Legato and RR are unfortunately still reserved for the company behind Soundpaint (8Dio), but it has already been announced that these will be made available to everyone in the near future.
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this is toooo cool
Do you have the full name of that WAVES DecentSampler Instrument or a link to it? I can't seem to find it.
Decent sampler is not a waves plugin.
I downloaded decent sampler on my Mac, and when I wanted to open it in Locig, the program (logic) immediately crashes and I haven't been able to figure out why. Does anyone might have any idea why that could ?
Best times for low budget or no budget musicians are definitely NOW.
I started the process of downloading Decent Sampler to add to Ableton Live on my Windows PC. Unfortunately I received a prompt that said "Do Not Run, Program Unfamiliar, May Harm My PC". Is there any info out there on corrupted downloads for Decent Sampler? Or do you think this is a false positive? Any help is much appreciated.
I've never had any issues with the plugin. I would check on the Decent Sampler website or try to contact the developer, David Hilowitz, he appreciates feedback and people reporting all kinds of bugs.
@@Adrian_ That's good to know. I appreciate the quick response.
Is it able to play in just intonation mode?
6:42 IM DEAD
Very insightful video, thank you for sharing. Entertaining and funny, too!
Thank you very much!
Its becoming an alternative to Kontakt. Sure, Kontakt is better and more fully featured, but for many of us Decent Sampler is more than good enough, and the amount of content available is growing very rapidly.
incredible
Xml is not coding. Its basically template or settings file with some structure which you can use between different softwares
A set of human-readable instructions that follows a syntax and tells a machine what to do? Couldn't possibly be code...
Hi Adrian. Thanks for that. It was a good introduction for me into Decent Sampler for sure. I can't help but feel you missed an opportunity there with the placing of the controls. a little bit of shuffling and you would have landed your release and tone controls right over the screws on the amp and centred and release a lot of anxiety for any OCD viewers :-) Great video thanks.
Thank you! Haha I tried to do that but it was taking a bit too long to get it just right!
Whats the point using this when most DAWs have an even more powerful free sampler build in?
Logic , StudioOne , Live , Bitwig ... Does it have filter at all?
this is the problem with shreddage I bought, it's kontakt only and the fact their installer for native access doesn't work means I can't use my expensive pack I bought. middle finger to you NI and Kontakt.
When I drag the zip file to the decent sampler and click yes. Nothing happens. I'm not sure why
Gotta extract the files first and then drag a project file to the decent sampler.
To be fair, I also got the impression from this video that you could just drag the zip also.
When you see a library that REQUIRES full Kontakt, you know they're unlicensed. To get your library for Kontakt player, you need to pay NI some licensing fees and only then you can get it for the Player version.
SO if you're paying 2000€ for a library and it requires full Kontakt, skip it. They're not doing what's required and are asking YOU to dish out their licensing fees by having to buy the full Kontakt.
That's stupid.
clap clap clap!!!!
Good idea for a library ;)
10:30
Yea, I know exactly what you mean.
is the timestretching good?
It sounds good to me
In the Intro you said its not used by big company's and thats sad. but tbh, thats the hole point of it. Its to edgy, and completely free. a community thing. i think its right were it belongs
Doesn't work. Reaper doesn't recognize it.
Biggest downside… I say one of the coolest aspects. Where analog and computing verge unified by you the artist and creator.
Computer says no
Of only it could actually, y'know, sample 😂
That's definitely coding. Your definitely a programmer now. Congrats!!
😂
hace un video en español
Tal vez 😂
Expensive samplers like kontakt are a total robbery for musicians. Makes no sense
As powerful as it is, it's so overpriced. I guess that's why they came up with kontakt player, thank god.
@@Adrian_ still a robbery when you need a 3rd party plugin and you need the full version. They are able to charge high prices because they have kinda like a monopoly. There's need for alternatives.
Another problem in the industry is the iLok. I avoid software that uses it
@@eltonwild5648 Yeah the Kontakt situation feels to me like if you bought a digital copy of a Pixar movie, but then in order to watch it, you needed to buy the program they used to make it 😂
Dude, don't try learning CSS if this is a PITA lol