How I made my first Instrument in Decent Sampler – 1987 Drums (free download)

In this video I’m explaining what I went through to create an usable drum sampler from an old, cheap drum machine, with more features and better sound than the original hardware.

With the tips and information in this video, and the resources linked below, you should be able to make your own Decent Sampler library too. I made a lot of mistakes that made it harder, which you can now avoid.

Decent Sampler is a sampling platform similar to KONTAKT, and ESX24, but free and accessible to everyone to create their own.
The short time between idea and proof of concept with DS was extremely enjoyable and while my final instrument is fairly complicated, each stage of the process was very simple.

Video chapters

00:00 - I made a Decent Sampler Library of my RX17 drum machine
02:02 - The sampling session
03:58 - different iterations of the library so far
06:02 - 1987 Drums Demo
06:37 - The Effect layers
09:22 - Velocities
09:56 - machine gun snare
10:36 - I will be sharing this for free soon
11:22 - Decent sampler learning resources
12:18 - Breaking down the code - Header
12:46 - - UI
15:43 - - tab section (controls)
18:38 - - binding
19:46 - - sliders
20:11 - - tagging
20:49 - Groups and Group
21:18 - Effects
21:53 - Groups volume and envelope
22:55 - Thoughts on structuring the library
23:35 - Sample section
24:55 - Do you have to write everything from scratch?
26:00 - possible bug
27:09 - What I SHOULD HAVE done
28:12 - Title medadata and MacOS
29:23 - Using a spreadsheet to speed up sample data entry
30:58 - more things I would do differently

Helpful Decent Sampler resources

• Format Documentation – https://www.decentsamples.com/docs/format-documentation.html
• Creator of Decent Sampler –  @DavidHilowitzMusic 
• @TrueNorthAudio  – How do you make free sample libraries in Decent Sampler https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJUelihnq_g
• Sublime Text editor – https://www.sublimetext.com/

Download for free

Download 1987 Drums

Decent Sampler is required

Sound Demo

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