Hope everyone enjoys the video! This was a really fun project, and I hope you all dig the final instrument! 🎸 Get Stella ► venustheory.gumroad.com/l/stella Tascam Portacapture X8 ► bit.ly/34JJmjA
As far as noise reduction goes, the inbuilt Audacity NR is bloody incredible! Such a pitty that a lot of more powerful DAWs don’t include equally good NR capabilities.
I still have my mothers old Framus 5/54 Riviera 1964 Black Rose vintage archtop guitar with a real unique, very dry and wooden sound. Maybe I should try to do my first sample library with it.
"I'm sure this guitar is already out of tune from taking it down the stairs..." Ha! I think I might own a Stella myself. She doesn't look like it, but definitely acts the same way.
It's ridiculously temperamental about things haha. One of these days I want to try and take it in to a guitar tech or luthier to see if they could do a more proper repair but I'm sure that'd cost me a small fortune if they could even save it.
my yamaha acoustic is older than god, and it's the one instrument i have kept hold of since i bought it in 1994. like yours it needs a setup, the frets are shallow, but it has so much character as it is I refuse to do anything with it. Love you for being of a similar vein and creating a sampler instrument of something like this. Off to buy it immediately.
That was fun to watch! I wish there was a detailed tutorial, a step-by-step one, that explains the hows and whys of this whole process. Can you please direct me to something you have made or someone else? Thanks and God bless! 😊🙏🏻❤
The Acoustic guitar is a devil to record. So funny to see you struggling with the same issues as me, which is holding your breath forever and for me also not making unwanted sounds with your clothes, chair, etc. Your video production is stellar dude! Thanks for providing high quality content! Best, Andy
Yes, this DOES inspire me to download it and try it for myself. What's more, it inspires me to do so right now! An extremely big Thank You in advance!!!
Nice video and how you describe your process. I find it easier to build my instruments in kontakt. Many think that kontakt is complex but as I explained in one of my videos some of the free samplers discourage newbies by making the instrument building process more difficult and "coding" like.
Luckily Decent Sampler instruments are very copy/paste. It's not nearly as complex as Lua or KSP for Falcon/Kontakt. However the visual aids for Kontakt/Falcon do make mapping things significantly easier - the creator of Decent Sampler is working on some new tools though to make creating instruments easier!
@@VenusTheory Thanks for your reply. I am not only referring to the visual aids for mapping. Modulation and layering of samples and groups in Kontakt are very intuitive without a single line of KSP code. Concerning Falcon, it's a beast (an overkill in certain areas). That's why I think Kontakt strikes the right balance. I like David (the creator of Decent Sampler) and his demeanor. He is a sweet guy. However, I am just afraid that some establishments might exploit his attempts coding a simple free sampler to send the wrong message to potential samplists (i.e it's hard to build evocative, complex, and organic instruments involving modulation etc. Therefore play around with free instruments and tip creators but pay the high premium for the "professional" good stuff).
@Ra Sharpness It's not hard to add a few custom knobs in Kontakt. Ten lines of KSP, copy/paste. I will address some of the easy shortcuts in my tutorials. But building a complex instrument does not require programming in Kontakt. The modulation and editing functions available within the engine are very intuitive. Cheers John!
Just installed the free Stella . . . most impressed . . . love the tone. Off to buy the full Stella samples. Oh, and thoroughly enjoyed your demonstration of creating the library . . . Thanks muchly VT
Check out "$13 Stella" on the album The Mason Williams Ear Show. Stella's were a mail order-department store item (think "Montgomery Ward"). According to the liner notes, Mason's Stella did not survive to make the recording, as sampling was limited to the likes of Delia Derbyshire ("Dr. Who" theme). "$13 Stella" might make a comeback with your Sampled Gibson. I guess inflation and brand recognition got to the price of yours. There is something attractive about the non-resonant "thunk" of the picked bass strings of your Gibson-Stella. Round-wound steel string noise for chord changes, might be welcome too. The Tascam recorder is very nice too. Love your microphone tree too; recording from solo guitar to a symphony orchestra (okay, not QUITE a Decca Tree).
Wow good stuff! That decent sampler thing is really looking good (compared to that popular one that starts with K). I hope more people start using Decent Sampler now that you showed that its fun and Quality sounding!
This was amazing and informative. I own your other libraries and am loving them. I'll be picking this one up too. I don't make intruments but I use a lot of them, and as such, I dislike Kontakt and I hate Maize Sampler. Decent Sampler is unencumbered by what irks me about the others and I'm glad to see you supporting the growth of that format. Thank you and Rock on!
lol, 80.00 for a guitar that would easily run you 1,000-1,500.00? wow! that's so nice! all I can say is winner winner, chicken dinner! Also, nicely done on the sampling
I was a bit worried about the touchscreen at first, but it's really snappy and actually great to work with. Suppose we'll see how it holds up in the field once it quits raining in this damn state and I can take it outside!
How do you create the GUI of the sample Library? I am a musician and an artist. I am very interested in this process. I would really like to know the process for packaging the sample for digital delivery also.
And speaking of libraries...or not...I'm stepping into the world of doing some background tracks for a friends project, a documentary of a persons life growing up in in Uganda. Can you shed some light on a organized file system of how you would categorize different music styles, rhythms, genres, etc.? Appreciate your help!
I had the same idea but since the name wasn't even close to the logo I'm not sure that was the key to the mystery. It also has Zeon on it as well and was all over the case, so I'm assuming Zeon was maybe the owner and Stella was someone in relation to them. I guess we'll never know!
Hey, awesome video! (they always are). Can I ask what stereo bar you’re using and if you need an adapter for the shotgun mic clip? Also, for the programming side, what language is that in and are there any guides you can point to? Thank you!
Hey Man, I have a question of different sort. What backup service do you use and how do you set it up? The things we don't get to hear about it schools...
Kurt Cobain played a Stella (brand guitar) on "Polly" on Nevermind, and the same guitar is believed to have also been used on "Something in the Way." When a guy from Guitar World magazine pointed out to Kurt in an interview that the guitar sounded a little flat on "Polly," Kurt replied, "That’s a 20-dollar junk shop Stella - I didn’t bother changing the strings. [laughs] It barely stays in tune. In fact I have to use duct tape to hold the tuning keys in place." It may have only had five strings on it at the time of recording as well.
@Venus theory is there any way to code decent sampler instruments to be MPE compatible? I know that in Kontakt you can create 4 seperate instances of the instrument and assign them to different midi channels to make them MPE compatible, but can you do that in decent sampler too?
so cool! thank you for this you should join the ambient collab album a bunch of synthers and i are putting together id love to have you on a track, easy, lowest amount of time expended, fun, ......not lucrative lol.... probably low views too hahah
I'm still so confused about how to do the coding stuff & getting an image loaded in your explanation there was a bit too brief for me to understand what you did
Haven't done a session at 192 yet, but I have an upcoming project in a couple weeks where I'm going to try that out. I'll be curious to see if it's as bad as people say it is.
@@VenusTheory It is very cool. I am more into strings and pads, but I really like this instrument. Also that I can ajust the Attack-Level. Nice to create something roaring out of it. Thank you very much.
Mr. Venus I wanna learn to code, any suggestions or what should I learn first. My interests are sample libraries and audio plugins. Great video by the way!
There's actually a full guide here! www.decentsamples.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/format-documentation.html As for coding plugins, there is a great channel here: ruclips.net/user/TheAudioProgrammer
Audacity can do this! You essentially have to use sound finder then export multiple. See my video for more details ruclips.net/video/XlUUVPgfN6M/видео.html
@@VenusTheory I had a friend who wrote a song called Stella about his first guitar. He wrote the name trying to make it look like font from a Metallica logo. When i saw your guitar with the carved name like that i thought it might be the same one!
“Here’s how I make a sampled instrument” Let me use some software that I wont talk about, and program samples to round robin that I also wont talk about. 🤷♂️
Hope everyone enjoys the video! This was a really fun project, and I hope you all dig the final instrument!
🎸 Get Stella ► venustheory.gumroad.com/l/stella
Tascam Portacapture X8 ► bit.ly/34JJmjA
Great job, buckaroonie!
Would have liked to see more of the creation of the instrument
Man, the amount of knowledge you possess is immeasurable. WHAT EXACTLY DO YOU NOT KNOW?!
As far as noise reduction goes, the inbuilt Audacity NR is bloody incredible! Such a pitty that a lot of more powerful DAWs don’t include equally good NR capabilities.
I still have my mothers old Framus 5/54 Riviera 1964 Black Rose vintage archtop guitar with a real unique, very dry and wooden sound. Maybe I should try to do my first sample library with it.
"I'm sure this guitar is already out of tune from taking it down the stairs..."
Ha! I think I might own a Stella myself. She doesn't look like it, but definitely acts the same way.
It's ridiculously temperamental about things haha. One of these days I want to try and take it in to a guitar tech or luthier to see if they could do a more proper repair but I'm sure that'd cost me a small fortune if they could even save it.
my yamaha acoustic is older than god, and it's the one instrument i have kept hold of since i bought it in 1994. like yours it needs a setup, the frets are shallow, but it has so much character as it is I refuse to do anything with it. Love you for being of a similar vein and creating a sampler instrument of something like this. Off to buy it immediately.
That was fun to watch! I wish there was a detailed tutorial, a step-by-step one, that explains the hows and whys of this whole process. Can you please direct me to something you have made or someone else? Thanks and God bless! 😊🙏🏻❤
The Acoustic guitar is a devil to record. So funny to see you struggling with the same issues as me, which is holding your breath forever and for me also not making unwanted sounds with your clothes, chair, etc.
Your video production is stellar dude! Thanks for providing high quality content!
Best, Andy
Holy crap that turned out nice! I’ll be picking up the $30 version for sure!
Yes, this DOES inspire me to download it and try it for myself. What's more, it inspires me to do so right now!
An extremely big Thank You in advance!!!
Great video and definitely makes me want to build a sampler. The coding stuff was really intimidating though.
Nice video and how you describe your process. I find it easier to build my instruments in kontakt. Many think that kontakt is complex but as I explained in one of my videos some of the free samplers discourage newbies by making the instrument building process more difficult and "coding" like.
Luckily Decent Sampler instruments are very copy/paste. It's not nearly as complex as Lua or KSP for Falcon/Kontakt. However the visual aids for Kontakt/Falcon do make mapping things significantly easier - the creator of Decent Sampler is working on some new tools though to make creating instruments easier!
@@VenusTheory Thanks for your reply. I am not only referring to the visual aids for mapping. Modulation and layering of samples and groups in Kontakt are very intuitive without a single line of KSP code. Concerning Falcon, it's a beast (an overkill in certain areas). That's why I think Kontakt strikes the right balance. I like David (the creator of Decent Sampler) and his demeanor. He is a sweet guy. However, I am just afraid that some establishments might exploit his attempts coding a simple free sampler to send the wrong message to potential samplists (i.e it's hard to build evocative, complex, and organic instruments involving modulation etc. Therefore play around with free instruments and tip creators but pay the high premium for the "professional" good stuff).
@Ra Sharpness It's not hard to add a few custom knobs in Kontakt. Ten lines of KSP, copy/paste. I will address some of the easy shortcuts in my tutorials. But building a complex instrument does not require programming in Kontakt. The modulation and editing functions available within the engine are very intuitive. Cheers John!
Before chopping up the samples, you should use the new Waves plugin that gets rid of the noise... It's fantastic!
Whats the plugin called?
@@SefaDrums clarity vx, and clarity vx pro
Respect, man. Best from Poland, you're doing a great job. Thanks.
8:15 Reafir is a pretty gud (free) alternative
Just installed the free Stella . . . most impressed . . . love the tone. Off to buy the full Stella samples. Oh, and thoroughly enjoyed your demonstration of creating the library . . . Thanks muchly VT
There's a beautifull "Stella's Theme" (and a "Estella´s Theme" by P. Doyle, wich make me cry...). Hugs from Argentina
This is sooooo good... the video and the Stella sampler.
Check out "$13 Stella" on the album The Mason Williams Ear Show. Stella's were a mail order-department store item (think "Montgomery Ward"). According to the liner notes, Mason's Stella did not survive to make the recording, as sampling was limited to the likes of Delia Derbyshire ("Dr. Who" theme). "$13 Stella" might make a comeback with your Sampled Gibson. I guess inflation and brand recognition got to the price of yours. There is something attractive about the non-resonant "thunk" of the picked bass strings of your Gibson-Stella. Round-wound steel string noise for chord changes, might be welcome too. The Tascam recorder is very nice too. Love your microphone tree too; recording from solo guitar to a symphony orchestra (okay, not QUITE a Decca Tree).
Wow good stuff! That decent sampler thing is really looking good (compared to that popular one that starts with K). I hope more people start using Decent Sampler now that you showed that its fun and Quality sounding!
6:53 It's hard to contain these noises🤣
Very nice. I'm hoping there's more documentation out soon that explains the process for creating key switched articulations in Decent sampler.
Stella was an investor in what you have just created ..is that not magic of how life unfolds 😎
That kinda broke my brain for a minute - beautiful way of thinking of it haha. Things align in weird ways sometimes!
Sounds great
Tascam sounds like a must have…
I've been looking at the bigger Tascam field recorders for a while. Found this video very interesting.
Great vid, thanks for the free instrument, been having great fun with decent sampler since your vid about it
That’s awesome 👏
This was amazing and informative. I own your other libraries and am loving them. I'll be picking this one up too. I don't make intruments but I use a lot of them, and as such, I dislike Kontakt and I hate Maize Sampler. Decent Sampler is unencumbered by what irks me about the others and I'm glad to see you supporting the growth of that format. Thank you and Rock on!
Big Thank you _ 4 The inspring video Work and excelent tutorials !
That was really interesting! Enough detail (for me, anyway) and at a good pace. Thanks! :)
I have a similar relationship with an old red label Yamaha FG 180.
Excellent!
lol, 80.00 for a guitar that would easily run you 1,000-1,500.00? wow! that's so nice! all I can say is winner winner, chicken dinner! Also, nicely done on the sampling
Great video as usual, but I'm finding it in 2024 and sadly the free version link seems to have disappeared.
yea it was cool
Beautiful work and thanks for sharing
I first thought of Stella Blue, the Grateful Dead song. There's a million hippie kids named after it lol. Awesome vid and instrument too!
It sounds really good dude 🙏🏼🤩
Thanks!
Great video! Thanks for the amazing work! 🙏
Always giving useful tutorials 🔥 🔥
just downloaded it, thanks!
Very interesting. Looks fun. :)
bought it before I heard the final. cause I'm a fanboy.
Wow, I think I may try that!
Excellent, well done.
Sounds good ✌️
Gorgeous!!!!
Awesome work
I will stay with my good old Zoom H5. But hell, that touch interface of the Tascam is pretty sexy. 😁
I was a bit worried about the touchscreen at first, but it's really snappy and actually great to work with. Suppose we'll see how it holds up in the field once it quits raining in this damn state and I can take it outside!
@@VenusTheory Thought about showing off with that feature in front of clients. 😂
Holy crap! Decent Sampler is available on Linux? How have I not heard about this sooner?
great video!! 🙌
What software do you use for slicing the samples? 8:05
I would also love to know
Sounds awesome!
Thanks! Captured for everyone to enjoy haha. Such a weird tone, but it's really cool!
How do you create the GUI of the sample Library?
I am a musician and an artist. I am very interested in this process. I would really like to know the process for packaging the sample for digital delivery also.
And speaking of libraries...or not...I'm stepping into the world of doing some background tracks for a friends project, a documentary of a persons life growing up in in Uganda. Can you shed some light on a organized file system of how you would categorize different music styles, rhythms, genres, etc.? Appreciate your help!
Love your content Cameron. Thank you. Any tips on where to download editable code for decent sampler? Is the coding learnable for a novice? Cheers.
What a guitar. I love the Sound too. Girls are the best 🇩🇰
Same - it's got a lovely 'broken' quality to it. Sounds so boxy and beat up in the best way.
Stella was actually a famous acoustic guitar brand. Most notable Stella artists are Robert Johnson and Kurt Cobain.
I had the same idea but since the name wasn't even close to the logo I'm not sure that was the key to the mystery. It also has Zeon on it as well and was all over the case, so I'm assuming Zeon was maybe the owner and Stella was someone in relation to them. I guess we'll never know!
As with $2700 synth, very interesting and helpful tutorial, really cool!!! The only drawback again - slander.
Thank you for the process run down. Great video! Hope you don't mind me asking... what did you use to chop up the raw samples?
Wow!!!!!!!!
Love the Tascam, But I don't trust touch interfaces.
;(
Hey, awesome video! (they always are). Can I ask what stereo bar you’re using and if you need an adapter for the shotgun mic clip?
Also, for the programming side, what language is that in and are there any guides you can point to?
Thank you!
You crack me up man haha
I have always wondered how sampler plugins were made
Thanks for this rundown. I’m excited to try my hand at creating a ds instrument
How do you go about making slides from one note to another?
dope
Are there any benefits (besides portability) to using something like the Tascam over recording directly into your PC?
Hy. I wanted to ask if you can't do that in cubase11 as well? There's also a sampler there.
I want to see the “not super fun to watch” stuff
Hey Man, I have a question of different sort. What backup service do you use and how do you set it up? The things we don't get to hear about it schools...
Where do I learn how to code and actually make the vst? I would be super interested making sample libraries line this!
Oh, this sounds almost like kantele.
How many hours do you think you put into this creating the sampler instrument? (Minus the video production portion)
Kurt Cobain played a Stella (brand guitar) on "Polly" on Nevermind, and the same guitar is believed to have also been used on "Something in the Way." When a guy from Guitar World magazine pointed out to Kurt in an interview that the guitar sounded a little flat on "Polly," Kurt replied, "That’s a 20-dollar junk shop Stella - I didn’t bother changing the strings. [laughs] It barely stays in tune. In fact I have to use duct tape to hold the tuning keys in place." It may have only had five strings on it at the time of recording as well.
Wow, I remember reading that exact interview when I was in high school
I can't find the free version anywhere anymore
@Venus theory is there any way to code decent sampler instruments to be MPE compatible? I know that in Kontakt you can create 4 seperate instances of the instrument and assign them to different midi channels to make them MPE compatible, but can you do that in decent sampler too?
so cool! thank you for this
you should join the ambient collab album a bunch of synthers and i are putting together
id love to have you on a track, easy, lowest amount of time expended, fun, ......not lucrative lol.... probably low views too hahah
Great video, way too short in my opinion. All the bits you skip are interesting to me too. Thx!
I'm still so confused about how to do the coding stuff & getting an image loaded in your explanation there was a bit too brief for me to understand what you did
How long did the whole process take?
Next virtual instrument on the list gotta be the burp maschine... right? Right? 😊
150k special?
Holy shit
Does your TASCAM also have a static noise issues when recording at 192khz? It's the main reason why I'm not getting it.
Haven't done a session at 192 yet, but I have an upcoming project in a couple weeks where I'm going to try that out. I'll be curious to see if it's as bad as people say it is.
clapping cheeks caught me 🤣😂
Who is also here after already playing around with it in Decent Sampler? 😁
Hope you're enjoying it!
@@VenusTheory It is very cool. I am more into strings and pads, but I really like this instrument. Also that I can ajust the Attack-Level. Nice to create something roaring out of it. Thank you very much.
Mr. Venus I wanna learn to code, any suggestions or what should I learn first. My interests are sample libraries and audio plugins. Great video by the way!
There's actually a full guide here!
www.decentsamples.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/format-documentation.html
As for coding plugins, there is a great channel here: ruclips.net/user/TheAudioProgrammer
@@VenusTheory Thanks!
8:06 what software?
What was the software you used for chopping the samples off camera?
Audacity can do this! You essentially have to use sound finder then export multiple. See my video for more details ruclips.net/video/XlUUVPgfN6M/видео.html
It sounds like a dulcimer . .
Are these flowers alive or plastic?
Beer
I don't get why not a single living soul samples stroke noises into their guitar libraries. Without that, everything sounds 10x worse than it should.
absolutely!! Most sample libs sounds sterile, boring, a bit like a 1990th rompler JV 1080 player.
@@Byron101_yup, i was thinking the same.
Did you buy STELLA in Ohio, Nevada, or Idaho?
I did not - Central Illinois actually, so could have possibly been from Ohio?
@@VenusTheory I had a friend who wrote a song called Stella about his first guitar. He wrote the name trying to make it look like font from a Metallica logo. When i saw your guitar with the carved name like that i thought it might be the same one!
6:52 XDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD
Raw and uncut.
“Here’s how I make a sampled instrument”
Let me use some software that I wont talk about, and program samples to round robin that I also wont talk about. 🤷♂️
Sooo... it's not actually free, that's just the name of the sampler. Free Decent Sampler. Yeah, whateva.