Elektroid ~ Sample & MIDI Device Manager


Elektroid is a sample and MIDI device manager. It includes the elektroid GUI application and the elektroid-cli CLI application.

github.com/dagargo/elektroid
flathub.org/apps/io.github.dagargo.Elektroid

Kontakt Player ~ Industry Standard Sample Player


KONTAKT PLAYER is a free application that runs all of our KONTAKT instruments, as well as a large number of instruments from other companies.

Features:
  • Free sample player based on Kontakt 6.
  • Hosts a huge selection of Native Instruments and third-party instruments.
  • Also included in KOMPLETE START – the free bundle with 2,000 sounds and 6 GB of content.

www.native-instruments.com/en/products/komplete/samplers/kontakt-6-player

Qsampler ~ LinuxSampler Qt GUI


Qsampler is a linuxsampler GUI front-end application written in C++ around the Qt4 toolkit using Qt Designer. For the moment it just wraps the client interface of LinuxSampler Control Protocol (LSCP)

https://qsampler.sourceforge.io/

Psycle ~ Modular Music Creation Studio


Psycle is a Music tracker (like FastTracker 2 or Impulse Tracker) combined with plugin modularity. It supports its own plugin API, the VST2 plugin standard, and a tracker style sampler playback.

https://sourceforge.net/projects/psycle

http://psycle.pastnotecut.org/portal.php
http://sourceforge.net/projects/psycle/

SoundTracker ~ Unix Sample Tracker


SoundTracker is a music tracking tool for Unix / X11 similar in design to the DOS program FastTracker and the Amiga legend ProTracker. Samples can be lined up on tracks and patterns which are then arranged to a song. Supported module formats are XM and MOD; the player code is the one from OpenCP. A basic sample recorder and editor is also included. SoundTracker is free (“open source”) software, licensed under the GNU GPL.

soundtracker

www.soundtracker.org

Aural Probe ~ Sample Library Tool


Aural Probe is a sample librarian tool for computer musicians / audio engineers. Automatically and non-destructively index your disorganised sample collection from a list of folders into categories (kick, snare, hihats etc.) based on folder/filename wildcard matches. Easily audition samples, load/save favourites, and drag-and-drop straight into your sequencer.

Features:

  • Categorize your huge sample collections (20GB+) without moving a single file
    Create categories based on file/folder keyword matches (eg. Kick category = “bd”, “kick”, “bassdrum”) or regular expressions
  • Quickly audition through samples with arrow keys or mouse
  • Filter samples by file type (WAV, AIFF, FLAC, MP3, WMA, OGG)
  • Full drag-and-drop support (simply drag a sample from Aural Probe into your sequencer/sampler, just like Windows Explorer)
  • Mark favorites, filter by favorites, load/save favorite lists
  • Automatic rescan and categorization of samples on changed categories or sample folder layout
  • See details about highlighted sample in status bar
  • ‘Always on top’ mode to make frequent dragging of samples into other windows easier
  • Right-click a sample for frequently used shortcuts (Explore, Copy, Copy Shortcut, Favorite, Delete)
  • 100% read-only – does not move/modify your samples, just indexes them
    Minimize to system tray

Aural Probe

sourceforge.net/projects/auralprobe

SRC Database ~ Compare Sample Rate Converters


Online database that compares the performance of common sample rate converters.

http://src.infinitewave.ca/

Audiotool ~ Online Digital Audio Workstation


Start making music in the cloud. Audiotool is a powerful online music production studio right in your browser. All crafted with lots of love for the small details.

www.audiotool.com

drumkv1 ~ Drum-Kit Sampler Synthesizer


drumkv1 is an old-school all-digital drum-kit sampler synthesizer with stereo fx.

Features:

  • a pure stand-alone JACK client with JACK-session, NSM (Non Session management) and both JACK MIDI and ALSA MIDI input support;
  • a LV2 instrument plug-in. URI: drumkv1.sourceforge.net/lv2
drumkv1.png

drumkv1.sourceforge.io

samplv1 ~ Old-School Polyphonic Sampler


samplv1 is an old-school all-digital polyphonic sampler synthesizer with stereo fx.

Features:

 

 

samplv1

samplv1

samplv1.sourceforge.io

synthv1 ~ Old-School Polyphonic Sampler


synthv1 is an old-school all-digital 4-oscillator subtractive polyphonic synthesizer with stereo fx.

Features:

synthv1-screenshot6

synthv1.sourceforge.io

LinuxSampler ~ Open Source Sampler


The LinuxSampler project was founded in 2002 with the goal to produce a free, (cross-platform), streaming capable, open source, pure software audio sampler with high stability, efficiency and very low latency, while providing professional grade features, comparable to both hardware and commercial Windows / Mac software samplers and to introduce new features not yet available by any other sampler in the world.

linuxsampler

linuxsampler.org

Visual Front Ends ~ GUI:

QSampler_0_2_1_ubuntu_preview

QSampler

JSampler

JSampler