Quick and easy desktop sampler recommendations please.

[aekoi]

Hi everyone.

I just need something quick and simple to sample drum hits, guitar, vocal samples, field recordings and such like. It will integrate with my modular set up. I read SOS's sampler round up (July 24 I think) and the review of the TE EP-133. I'm leaning towards the 133.

Any opinions would be most helpful. Thanks.

[Ben Asaro]

I have two samplers that I use, but they are both very lo-fi. Are you looking for something high resolution? Are you looking to do accurate pitching with it?

[aekoi]

I've never really experienced any pitching issues with any sampler I have used (various Akais, EMUs and Rolands), so I'm not sure what you mean. I'm just looking for quick workflow, doesn't need to be feature packed.

[Ben Asaro]

These are my samplers:

https://phatronics.com/

I have the LoFiATron and the SampLoFi.

Neither do accurate pitch creation.

[aekoi]

The more I am looking at TE 113 the more I think that'll do the job.

[forumuser931182]

1010music Blackbox – Compact Sampling Studio
Might be worth checking out

[forumuser931182]

Or Akai MPX8 SD Sample Pad if you want cheap

[Arpangel]

Quick and easy, and the word "sampler" are like matter and anti-matter, they do not go well together.
I'd love a sampler, but I don’t own one, I just haven’t found anything that’s even vaguely user friendly, I have a couple of lo-fi "toys" that I just somehow manage to get a sound out of, god knows what I'm doing, but it outputs something interesting on a good day, samplers have always seemed like they were designed by someone who was having a laugh trying to make something as convoluted and difficult to use as possible.

[BillB]

Or Akai MPX8 SD Sample Pad if you want cheap

From this review and comments read elsewhere, this would be the better MPX option
https://www.soundonsound.com/reviews/akai-mpx16

[nathanscribe]

If you're looking at the Teenage Engineering, also consider the Novation Circuit Rhythm.

[aekoi]

Or Akai MPX8 SD Sample Pad if you want cheap

From this review and comments read elsewhere, this would be the better MPX option
https://www.soundonsound.com/reviews/akai-mpx16

This would be good, but it doesn't seem to be in stock anywhere???

[aekoi]

Or Akai MPX8 SD Sample Pad if you want cheap

If this could sample 'in the box', it would be perfect, but sadly...

[aekoi]

If you're looking at the Teenage Engineering, also consider the Novation Circuit Rhythm.

This looks very good