Kotkas has released Paax, a free VSTi sampler for Windows with the functionality of many commercial software and hardware samplers, yet it's quite easy to use, plus it's free.
Features:
Features:
- Plays 8/16 bit, mono/stereo wav files at any sample rate.
- Up to 128 presets per bank.
- Up to 84 splits per preset and 4 velocity-triggered samples per split.
- 16 simultaneous voices.
- Low CPU consumption.
- RAM save scheme (only active presets' samples are loaded at one time).
- Low aliasing resampling technology, 32 bit audio engine.
- 3 envelope controls (ADSR) per preset: amplitude, pitch and filter cutoff.
- 3 configurable LFOs per preset: tremolo, vibrato and filter cutoff.
- All envelopes and oscillators can be synchronized to MIDI tempo.
- Managing presets, splits and samples is simpler than ever!
- Bank format offers choice for embedded or referenced samples.
- VST 2.3 compatible.