How to use Decent Sampler on iOS

[@nathanang.]

Your work (and that of Pianobook's musicians) are ridiculously underrated. Thank you for all your hard work!

[@haleisreading123]

Wait this is so funny I was just looking into PianoBook's sample extensions (completely unrelated to this) then the first thing I see is your comment! What does Pianobook have to do with MetGala???

[@slowgaffle]

Very well spoken and clear description of how to perform a tricky operation to those not used to it.

[@midi_in]

Thank you David. I've been using DecentSampler as a plugin in my desktop Logic Pro, and have only just started to tinker with mobile. So DS was my first stop. This video answered a few questions, thank you for this and all of your work.

[@FiddlingwithmyWhistle]

Super cool, Are you going to make a android one ?

[@DamienzTheBand]

Thanks for the excellent walkthrough! Great that you made a version for iPad/iPhone, not many others that made the effort in a free product. Huge thanks!

[@bryanmartinez7849]

I love ur voice man it’s so relaxing

[@reginaldworthington7558]

Just want to comment and note that I really like your well produced and laid back style in this video David. Such a refreshing change from the regular fare on YT and the sampler looks great. Going to give it a try. Cheers.

[@NorbertVarga]

David, I cannot even express how grateful I am for this! As a touring musician who relies on a bunch of rare geriatric keyboards I've been looking for a decent (pun not intended) sampling solution for IOS as a backup for several years. Thank you!

[@LdotSdot210]

just made a preset for personal use out of piano samples I recorded from my roland xp-30 this morning. it was pretty easy and really awesome.

[@miguelcoutinho2521]

Thanks this is becoming awesome. It has answered all my questions. Keep the good work 👍🏽

[@miguelcoutinho2521]

I like this initiative. If there is something I can do let me know.

[@jasonstokes5469]

Thank you David!

[@Gaett]

That’s awesome ! Thanks a lot 👍👍👍

[@mofateam1]

I love DS. Thank you so much !!

[@DavidHilowitzMusic]

You're welcome. :)

[@Neuri]

dude, awesome thanks for all your work

[@jackrubinacci_official]

Wow!!! I’m so grateful for this. Love your work but I’m using mostly iOS these days so this is a big deal for me ! Thank you 🙏

[@levirichins6192]

This is amazing!! Thanks!!

[@zhexum]

This is great! Wondering if there’s any possibility of actually flipping the keyboard to the top of the screen, or even making it full screen. I sometimes find myself accidentally switching to a different app with the iPhones app switchy bar at the bottom. Furthermore, this is an amazing tool! Thanks!

[@UnaSlapovi]

Hi David Many thanks for your explanation and guidance’s. It is amazing app. Can you explain is it possible to play standalone app in background without use of third apps.

[@coffeekev]

Trying to play Decent Sampler iOS in AUM with a keyboard midi controller. The pitch bend wheel has no effect with any of the Decent Sampler sounds. I can’t find anywhere in the app to do anything about this. Is it impossible to use a pitch bend wheel with Decent Sampler?

[@777wisdom7]

Hello it would be nice if you could download the piano book samples directly into descent sampler

[@stoogs]

Thanks so much, this is brilliant! Kontakt feels like bloat compared to this! 1 Request, Double clicking to load a sample, thats literally all i could ask for?

[@George-nx8zu]

Unfortunately if I rename the file to use the dslibrary extension then it does not seem to want to Airdrop onto the iPad, and my iCloud is already full so that's not a great solution for me.

[@SAMIZRAEL]

Great app...great site (piano book)... I wish you could fix the search algorithm in the site cause it's not finding the decent sampler format properly...

[@DavidHilowitzMusic]

It's coming. In the meantime, I use this Google search: www.google.com/search?q=site%3Apianobook.co.uk%2Flibrary+%28%22DecentSampler%22+OR+%22Decent+Sampler%22%29

[@SAMIZRAEL]

@@DavidHilowitzMusic thanks 😊

[@nickwatland3565]

Auv3 ? Looks awesome !

[@ChuckSilva]

Windows support and VST would be amazing...to use within Ableton 🎼🎶❤️

[@hopbb8842]

It's already on Windows and MacOS from day 1, man..

[@ChuckSilva]

@@hopbb8842 c0ol-not sure how I got confused but thanks for pointing that out...

[@crabbydad8931]

awesome! does ios DS support mono gliss samples?

[@kshitijk14]

hey man i want some help on how i can make a drum library through decent sampler or sforzando with some knobs as well, but getting a big confusion,

[@discophone_6214]

It is not working as you describe in the video. I changed the fileformat to dslibrary and when trying to sen it over to ipad. It opens the decent sampler but no patches were opened and i cant find the files in flies app

[@DavidHilowitzMusic]

How did you move the files over to your phone?

[@discophone_6214]

@@DavidHilowitzMusic via airdrop but when i uninstall the app and the transfer they showup at files app

[@tropbosspour]

Please Make it available for raspberry pi so makers can build wonderful instrument with it

[@livconnolly]

Is it possible to use Decent Sampler in Logic Pro X? Having difficulty finding any tutorials on how to import it...

[@seanleeduncan]

Until my Koala feature request comes through, can anyone help point me towards an iOS sampler that 1) Shows filenames on the pads AND 2) Works with Bluetooth controllers like Birdkid's Offgrid? Thanks

[@joedominguez-romero]

This process isn’t working for me. I have a grip of downloads only a few got thru, those few already had “dslibrary”extension when I downloaded them. But the other ones (most of the downloads I have) have the “dspreset” and the app tells me to zip it (compress), and change the extension to .dslibrary, which afterwards I do that N load it into the app N The app doesn’t accept it, N that’s after the zipping and extension name changing process. [EDIT]…. I think I might of figured it out. So far I compressed the WHOLE FOLDER of the download back originally like when you first get them, and instead of unzipping them into folders, you just load up the zip from within Decent Sampler

[@DJMacro_synth]

Can you make your own samples though?

[@andrewbarker8635]

Thanks David! I am so excited to see an accessible, decent sample format coming to ios! Any plans to bring this to Linux / Raspberry Pi? I feel like there's a strong community of Pi users who would love it, as the available samplers are very meh imo.

[@DavidHilowitzMusic]

Yes, I compiled my first Linux build last night. So far it seems to work well?

[@andrewbarker8635]

@@DavidHilowitzMusic Awesome! Didn't realize you had dev chops. You are very talented!

[@badnewschris8002]

does anyone can help me to install it?? i use lubuntu, but i ignore the way to install it.......

[@hopbb8842]

@@badnewschris8002 Just extract VST3 folder into your /home/*your username here*/.vst3, VST2 (.so file) into /home/*your username*/.vst2. The standalone can be extracted into anywhere, preferable your home folder. So far VST3 and standalone worked for me, just the GUI is freezed for a few seconds when loaded. I'm okay with that, though

[@badnewschris8002]

@@hopbb8842 thanks i will try

[@Gaett]

Hey David, Question please :) ! I want to try Decent sampler on my iPhone with my M32 Komplete Keyboard. But what kind of connector do you use to link your keyboard to your phone ? And, is the power supply of the the keyboard is provided by the phone ? It seems to be in the video. Thanks

[@everybodyhasoul5438]

Camera connection kit with pass through power.

[@cliffhanger5020]

Can we use it for podcasting??

[@quantumuncertainty1023]

Are these multi-layer, multi-velocity samples? Can this app play these? Thank you.

[@DavidHilowitzMusic]

Yes and yes. :)

[@swarafusionband420]

Is it possible to use my own sound samples ?

[@badnewschris8002]

Now let's hope that we can use it on Android phones in the future :D #Sampling4every1.

[@EmiPianoMX]

You can use Fluidsynth MIDI with sf2, but there would be a bit of Android latency.

[@badnewschris8002]

@@EmiPianoMX oh thanks!

[@ion677]

You can’t change a files extension on iOS. So . . . you need a computer to do this?

[@KazeNoTaniFarmHakuba]

You can do it in a file manager like Documents by Readdle 👍