Sampler anti-aliasing and pitch-shifting comparison
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Common sample |
Realtime winners |
Info
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| Soft/Hardware Sampler | Listen | Full spectral view (taken with Cool Edit) |
| Buzz (Matilde Tracker, Linear and Spline Interpolation) |
 Aliasing errors when pitched up (lower left corner: the bigger red points), |
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| Native Instruments Kontakt 1.3 |  It's average. |
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| Propellerheads Reason 2.5 (NN-XT Digital Sampler) |
 With "High Quality Interpolation" on, it sounds fine. |
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| Emulator X |
 With "Ultra-High Precision Interpolation" on, |
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| Emagic EXS24 MKII |
 Ouch, quite bad. What about a high quality switch? |
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| Gigasampler 2.54 Thanks to Anonymous from Hungary for sending the file. |
 Wow. Never thought that an ugly interface could sound that good! |
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| Fruityloops Studio 4 (Rendered output: with method "sinc depth 64", not realtime) |
 Realtime quality as the old Fruityloops, but the audio export has been improved even more, wicked. |
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| Fruityloops (Rendered output: with method "sinc depth 64", not realtime!) |
 With "sinc depth 64" as rendering method everything's cool. |
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| Steinberg Halion 2 (Resampling: Best, Full Quality Slider) |
 Not very convincing, even with the High-Quality settings and audio export. |
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| MOTU Mach Five 1.2 |
 Great interface and mediocre sound quality, |
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| Creamware Pulsar (STS 4000 Sampler) |
 Not much better than Buzz, |
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| Modplug Tracker Updated (2001-05-08): Aliasing fixed in Version 1.14 |
 Was okay before, very good since version 1.14. |
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| Native Instruments Reaktor (Sample quality excellent, Version 2.3) |
 Same problems as Buzz |
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| Soundblaster live! (created a Soundfont with the Vienna software and played through MIDI) |
 Very good realtime quality. Too bad the E-MU Chip inside doesn't get a great interface. |
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| E-MU ESI 4000 Turbo |
 Some aliasing. |
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| Akai S3000 XL |
 Not bad, but still some rough aliasing. |
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| Akai Z8 Thanks for Rajah Patel for sending the file. |
 Nearly perfect for realtime output, some quiet aliasing on certain notes. |
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| E-MU E4X |
 Funny - nearly no aliasing except on one(!) note. Otherwise excellent! Thanks to The Green Man / Basswerk for sending the file. |
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| Vsampler 3.1 |
 Ultra Mode The interface got better since 2.5 and the "perfect" and "ultra" modes are the icing on the cake - perfect! Great work guys. |
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| Renoise |
 Perfect when rendering. |
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| Madtracker |
 Great with export setting "sinc interpolation". Now you have two (Renoise & Madtracker) world-class Trackers to choose from :-) |
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| Shortcircuit 1.0.15 |
 Very nice! (if not excellent) |