The only real problem is that no complete manual was ever written. It comes with free envelopes that can modulate whatever you want: delay the entrance of resonance or drop it down fast, delay eq to avoid the attack phase, etc. Without question the best filter interface and controls.Īlmost everything can be modulated by everything. The display lets you see the amp envelope in an outline behind the filter envelope, so you can adjust the filter to correspond or not correspond with that envelope's stages. Still better, you can set the freq cutoff note by note nonlinearly-in other words, once you've set a cutoff freq, you can vary the extent to which each key is filtered, with widely different settings across the range or across just two notes that are side by side. Veloctiy to cutoff, to envelope, to resonance knobs. You can set the Attack freq, the Decay freq, rate, and shape, and enter up to 68 other points on the envelope, which you can drag around however you want. The filter controls: Not just a simple ADSR envelope.
The interfaces of other samplers will seem designed to obscure edits and slow your work. Once you learn the program, the interface makes perfect sense. Press F2 and you have the page for Zones and samples, etc. There is also a button bar to the right (customizable) that lets you call up any page, and keyboard shortcuts allow you to avoid even these buttons. The pages can be either docked in a rack view or allowed to take up the entire page. Some people may have had trouble with it because the program can do so much, and it presents separate pages for each major set of parameters, such as Filters, Amp, Banks, etc, with many buttons on each page. I'm not sure that there needs to be a new version of this software-it does almost everything.
However, it supports external VST effects, so that problem can easily be solved. The last version came out in January of 2006. (Halion 3 seems to have taken some of its interface design from VSampler.)
I've returned to VSampler recently, after learning more about sampling, and I find that it has by far the best interface and the best ability to modulate parameters. I moved away from it and into VSTI's and experimented for some time with Kontakt and others. (Notice that all of the reviewers below were using an older version of the software.) VSampler was my first softsampler.
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