sampler
Plays back recorded audio, mapped across pitch and velocity.
AVL Drumkits— Glen MacArthur
Black Pearl and Red Zepplin drumkits recorded with 5 velocity layers per kit piece.
AVL Percussions— Glen MacArthur
11 percussions instruments (Cajon, Woodblock, Handclap, Fingersnap, Bongos, Maracas, Tambourine, Cowbell, Claves, Waterglass) recorded with 5 velocity layers per piece.
Basic Harmonica— michael02022
Basic harmonica.
BeatMD— Paul Jones
A simple sampler plugin modelled on an old piece of analog gear, available as VST3, AU, and AAX.
Beatrec— Thomas Brok
Open source rolling sampler (VST3/CLAP audio plug-in), built with Rust
Billie Drum— EwonRael
SFZ drum kit inspired by the sound of Michael Jackson's Thriller album, blending acoustic and digital drum samples at 44.1kHz
Black and Green Guitars— DSmolken
Black Hofner Club and Green Gretsch Anniversary electric guitars.
CRASSHHFY— Cal Goheen
Neural drum sampler plugin that uses a diffusion network to generate drum samples, with priming ("Drumify"), inpainting ("Variation"), and a kick/snare/hihat classifier
Double Bass— DSmolken
1958 Otto Rubner double bass played arco and pizzicato with additional miscellaneous noises.
Drops— Clearly Broken
Drops is a single audio file sample player. Load an audio file, play it, loop it, pitch shift it, and make it into something entirely new.
DrumCraker— Wamphyre
Free drum sampler VST3 plugin optimized for Linux, FreeBSD, Windows and macOS, fully compatible with DrumGizmo drum kits.
Drumlabooh— Peter Semiletov
A drum machine supporting Hydrogen, Drumlabooh/Drumrox, and SFZ drumkit formats, with a built-in mixer, per-instrument filter FX, and round robin/cycle random sample modes.
Duck Sampler— Jesús Valdez
A JUCE-based C++ sampler plugin featuring sample playback, ADSR envelope, LFO amplitude modulation, distortion toggle, and output volume control.
Equinox— Oliver Rasmussen
Subtractive synthesizer and sampler plugin
Fasttracker II (FT2) Plugin— Blamstrain/TPOLM
Multi-instance-aware VST3/AU/LV2 plugin rewrite of 8bitbubsy's Fasttracker II clone, using JUCE
FluidSynth.clap— Cannery Coders
A clap-plugin bridge to fluidsynth.
Fxme Sampler— Olivier Doaré
Sampling instrument with a flexible multi-channel mixer, built-in convolution reverb, and advanced velocity mapping, configured via a portable mapping.xml file
Glasses Of Water— Freepats
Musical instrument made with glasses of water, recorded with an AKG Perception 120 microphone.
Grace— Shannon Oram
Sampler VST Plugin for Windows
gRainbow— Strange Loops Audio
Granular synthesizer that uses pitch detection to choose harmonically matched grain candidates from a sample, producing MIDI-playable, polyphonic textures without the inharmonic artifacts of typical granular synths.
Hang D Minor— Freepats
Pitched steel percussion instrument tuned in D minor, recorded using a Zoom H1 portable recorder mounted on a tripod.
Horse Pulse— DSmolken
Bass Tagelharpa played pizzicato.
Hungarian Zither— DSmolken
Hungarian 'prime' zither. A rectangular instrument with over a dozen strings, mostly tuned to G, with two melody courses and the rest as drones.
INTERSECT— tucktuckg00se
A nondestructive, time-stretching, and intersecting sample slicer plugin with independent per-slice parameter control.
jDrummer— Justin Ehrlichman
An open source drum plugin that is inspired by commercial plugins such as EZDrummer3 and the Logic Pro/GarageBand Drummer
jRhodes3c— Jeff Learman
1977 Rhodes Mark I Stage 73 piano.
jSteelDrum— Jeff Learman
C Steel Drum (a.k.a. 'steel pan') hand-made in Trinidad.
JuicySFplugin— Birch San
SoundFont synthesizer for playing General Midi music using sf2 files.
Just a Sample— Binyamin Friedman
A modern, open-source audio sampler
Key Repeat— Midilab
A lightweight beat repeat sampler.
Live Sampler— Arunas Cesonis
Records incoming audio into a buffer and plays it back looped, sample-accurately, entirely controlled by MIDI notes for recording, triggering playback voices at offsets, and reversing playback.
LooperPedal— Rafael Bormann Chuede
Guitar looper pedal plugin with MIDI control — record, overdub, play, and pause loops up to 120 seconds with seamless crossfade
Modern Kit— Samuel Santana
Modern drum kit sample library in SoundFont (SF2) format
MyDrum7— realsigmamusic
High-fidelity virtual acoustic drum kit plugin in LV2 format, built natively for Linux with a focus on organic, realistic sound and low CPU usage
Naked Drums— Wilkinson Audio
Multi-mic drumkit, with 10 round-robins, up to 5 velocity layers and several mic layers (Direct, OH, Close room, Far rooms, Mid-side and Wide OH).
Ninjas 2— Clearly Broken
Easy to use sample slicer, quick slicing of sample and auto-mapping slices to midi note numbers.
OBSIDIAN Neural— Innermost
AI-powered live performance tool (VST3/AU/Standalone with Ableton Link). 8-track sampler with real-time AI loop generation from text prompts using multiple models. Playable AI instrument for live sets.
Oi, Grandad!— Modular Samples
Four-voice granular sampler with modulation and resynthesis capabilities, built with HISE.
Otodesk Sampler— OTODESK
Multi-slot sampler with intelligent pitch detection, real-time RubberBand time-stretching, and a deep modulation engine
Pro Punk Drums— Paul Jones
JUCE simulation of my drum kit with mixing tools
Quetzalcoatl— Modular Samples
Quetzalcoatl is an 8-layer sample playback plugin (rompler) for Mac, Windows & Linux. Features multi-stage crossfading, wavetable mode, wavefolder, extensive modulation/sequencing, filter, and a large built-in sound libr
Recall Sampler— ummshsh
VST plugin that records everything, you can drag recoreded parts anywhere
Salamander Drumkit— Rytmenpinne
Drumkit recorded in the garage with an acoustic sound/feel.
Salamander Grand Piano— Alexander Holm
Yamaha C5, recorded with two AKG c414 disposed in an AB position ~12cm above the strings.
Sam's Sonor— Sam Greene
Sonor Force 3001 drum kit sampled with 4 velocity levels for each part.
Sfizioso Player— Patrizio Rullo
An open-source SFZ sample player (VST3/AU/Standalone) with MPE support, built on the sfizioso engine — an independent, MPE-capable fork of sfizz.
sfzq— Steve Folta
SFZ/SF2 Player CLAP plugin for Linux
SlowSampler2— chsh2
VST3 sampler for time stretching and pitch tuning, built for turning any sound into a playable instrument
Sonatina Symphonic Orchestra— Peter Eastman
Orchestral instrument library containing a full set of section and solo instruments with lots of articulations.
Spanish Classical Guitar— Freepats
Spanish classical guitar with nylon strings, recorded with an AKG Perception 120 microphone.
Splendid Grand Piano— Akai
Steinway piano with 4 velocity layers.
Synthesizer Percussion— Freepats
Drumkit sounds commonly used in vintage electronic music made with analog synthesizers.
The Archaeologist— larrymarmalade
Generative resampler / memory instrument — listens to your playing, archives it, and re-excavates fragments as degraded, transformed memory objects
Upright Piano KW— Freepats
Kawai upright piano, recorded in a living room using a Zoom H1 portable recorder mounted on a tripod in front of the piano.
Vaporizer2— VAST Dynamics
A hybrid wavetable additive/subtractive synthesizer and sampler workstation plugin.
Virtual Playing Orchestra— Paul Battersby
Orchestral sample library featuring section and solo instruments for woodwinds, brass, strings and percussion.
Virtuosity Drums— Versilian Studios
Contemporary Jazz drum kit library, performed with sticks, recorded at Virtuosity Musical Instruments in Boston, MA.
VMPC2000XL— Izmar Verhage
A JUCE implementation of the Akai MPC2000XL, an iconic sampler/sequencer drum machine.
Xps-8000xl— Firstnamegabe
Lazy chip sampler
zmann— AZProductions
A collection of sample-based instrument plugins (Bells, Orchestron, and more) built with the NIH-plug Rust framework.