Decent Samples

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Decent SamplesDAW & pluginsSample Creators: Turn Your Synth Into a Sample Library with the New Auto Sampler If you have a synthesizer you love, you can now turn it into a Decent Sampler instrument without any coding and without recording a single note by hand.

10.26

Decent SamplesDAW & pluginsSample Creators: Make Your First Sample Library, No Coding Required Every instrument you’ve ever played in Decent Sampler started as a folder of recordings. Somebody recorded a piano, a kalimba or a synth one note at a time, then told Decent Sampler which recording…

10.26

Decent SamplesDAW & pluginsSample Creators: A New Wavetable Engine With the release of version 1.20.0, Decent Sampler now has a wavetable engine. Wavetables are a powerful synthesis technique that allows you to create complex, evolving timbres by scanning through a…

04.11

Decent SamplesDAW & pluginsSample Creators: New Feature in Version 1.15.2: Pluck Oscillator Version 1.15.2 of DecentSampler introduces a cool new oscillator type that brings physical modeling synthesis capabilities to the platform: the pluck oscillator.

01.23

Decent SamplesDAW & pluginsSample Creators: New Features in Version 1.15.0: Oscillators, Lines, and Rectangles Version 1.15.0 of DecentSampler introduces three powerful new features that expand what’s possible when creating sample libraries: built-in oscillators for synthesis without samples, line elements…

2025.12.07

Three pins, and nearly every signal in this business passes through them.

The magazine is named after the cable: the microphone in the booth, the line to the desk, the DMX run that fires the lights. Studio, stage and rig share the same cable. Most magazines pick one of the three. This one covers all of it, because the people we read do too — the engineer mixing a record on Tuesday is on front of house by Saturday.

Around a hundred and sixty sources, in English, Japanese, Spanish, German, French, Chinese and Italian: makers and their release notes, reviewers who put a hand on the thing, studios and touring crews, the producers and collectives surfacing this month and the scenes they came out of. Synths and modular, plugins and DAWs, guitars and drums, microphones, monitors, PA and lighting. What the trade is talking about is counted and plotted. The editor's letter has just started; it will find its rhythm.

For each story: a headline, a short excerpt, one picture and the link out. We never reprint the article, and the picture belongs to the maker or the photographer. A German review appears in German and a Japanese one in Japanese, as the writer published it; the link goes to the original.

Nothing is sold on this site. When a link leads to a shop, it is the maker's shop, not ours.