TX16Wx
by CWI Technology
by CWI Technology
4.5 / 5
(45 votes)
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The TX16Wx Software Sampler is a simple, yet powerful sampling instrument inspired by various classic hardware samplers from the 80s and 90s, but mainly the excellent Yamaha TX16W sampler as used with the Typhoon operating system.
Many software samplers sport a multitude of features aimed mainly at disk-streaming gigabyte sized preset libraries. The TX16Wx instead aims to bring back some of the joy of working with the classic hardware instruments, using sampling not for playing back pre-built libraries, but instead creating your own new sounds in creative way. Perhaps the biggest reason this software was created though, is that I have yet to find a software sampler, free or otherwise, with both workstation features, and a clear cut, well-documented file format that does not lock the user in to a product forever. The TX16Wx file format is simple XML files and can be translated even by hand in a simple text editor.
TX16Wx can load:
WAV/AIFF/AIFC.
SoundFont 2.
SFZ Files.
Logic EXS.
Akai AKP.
Ogg Vorbis.
FLAC.
REX/REX2.
Typhoon compressed AIF files.
Original Yamaha OS Wave files.
Many software samplers sport a multitude of features aimed mainly at disk-streaming gigabyte sized preset libraries. The TX16Wx instead aims to bring back some of the joy of working with the classic hardware instruments, using sampling not for playing back pre-built libraries, but instead creating your own new sounds in creative way. Perhaps the biggest reason this software was created though, is that I have yet to find a software sampler, free or otherwise, with both workstation features, and a clear cut, well-documented file format that does not lock the user in to a product forever. The TX16Wx file format is simple XML files and can be translated even by hand in a simple text editor.
TX16Wx can load:
WAV/AIFF/AIFC.
SoundFont 2.
SFZ Files.
Logic EXS.
Akai AKP.
Ogg Vorbis.
FLAC.
REX/REX2.
Typhoon compressed AIF files.
Original Yamaha OS Wave files.
- Re-sizable, flexible GUI.
- Full Undo/Redo support.
- Built-in file browser with sound playback and wave and program preview.
- Fully skinnable.
- Program icons.
- Unlimited multi-timbral operation.
- 128 voice polyphony.
- 6/12/24 dB resonant filters.
- Low-, high, band- and allpass.
- Notch, peak, low- and highshelf.
- Two syncable LFO per voice.
- Two Modulation Envelopes per voice.
- Three Sequence LFO per voice.
- Modulation matrix with 16 modulation slots per voice.
- Three-way cross modulation (variable modulation strength).
- Multiple keyboard scales.
- Multiple trigger modes.
- Mono/Poly/Legato operation.
- 8 choke groups per program.
- Per-sample loop start/end/direction modulation.
- Polyphonic glide.
- Polyphony limit per channel.
- VST micro tuning support.
- Built-in sample editor.
- Automatic Loop Slicing + slice mapping.
- Actually Samples! Record audio straight into the sampler.
- Automatic pitch detection.
- Loop tools.
- Loop cross fading.
- Multiple loop definitions per wave.
- Trim, cut, duplicate.
- Pitch detection.
- Normalize.
- Reverse.
- Tempo detection.
- Graphical keyboard mapping editor.
- Automatic sample layout.
- Flexible drag & drop-based group edit.
- Quick select of sound data via MIDI.
- Drag & drop of samples/programs/performances/banks.
- Multiple outputs: 4 Stereo + 8 Mono outputs.
- Individual output mapping for key groups.
- 16 mappable controllers for automation.
- 128 mappable VST parameters for automation.
- Preview loaded programs and samples in your song before loading.
- Reads multiple sample and bank formats.
- Saves data in DAW project directory.
- Low CPU usage.
(5 / 5)
i love this very much!! but i wish there was a way to import the samples from the project i'm on and not just from the browsers
(5 / 5)
I would like to use It in Linux under wine. It Is installed but reaper don't recognize It..... Can anyone help me? (please, make a linux version, .vst3 or whatever extension you want.......)
I did work in the past with Roland S-330/50 W-30 Samplers. So old-school hardware stuff. This Sampler is perfect easy to use like the old days. This TX16Wx can do all i did with My old Roland samplers. Really easy perfect !!! Workt perfect as an VST in Cubase. And yes it can also sample sounds just like in the old days :-) Zhis is a real full sampler easy , also wave start and end point easy to set. And real easy to assign waves to the keyboard. Perfect machine !!!!
(5 / 5)
This is awesome.
Just download the legacy version on their own website. The new version sucks imo...
Doesn't look anything like the picture for me. Instead I get a horribly over complicated and confusing interface.
download the legacy version on their own website
(5 / 5)
Excellent sampler! I love it!
the new version is buggy as hell, old version was way better
For some inexplicable reason, this thing won't enable polyphonic sample reproduction, or MIDI CC. I wanted to make an M1 piano and couldn't get it to play like a piano, even though it's set to "poly". To add salt to the wound, it fell out of tune the second time I opened it and stayed out of whack since. What am I doing wrong here?
(5 / 5)
This is a brilliant sampler! Very powerful and capable!
(5 / 5)
How in the world is this free?
(5 / 5)
Excellent sampler! And it got upgraded to version 3!
(5 / 5)
I love this thing. I was looking for a good sampler to set up drum tracks. This slices loops or lets you load individual samples (or both), and you can tweak each sample. In the full version I can add a few basic effects to individual tracks (I think I could also send them to Reaper's mixer with their own tracks). I also loaded a piano bank. This is a great sampler (I'm not an expert, though). It takes a bit to learn but the details are all useful.
(5 / 5)
The best sampler. Better than any other freeware sampler and can actually compete with commercial samplers. TX16Wx can be both - simple and complex at the same time. It's up to you how you want to use it. If you need a sampler that has a good GUI, fast workflow and many useful features - this is the one.
(5 / 5)
This is what I was looking for. Great stuff
(5 / 5)
The best "true sampler" ever. True because you can record directly on it.
True because samples are used as waveform for creating original sounds and mangle a lot with them. TX16Wx has the best waveform editor I ever tested.
My main VST so far.
(5 / 5)
Awesome!
What exactly am I supposed to run? I've installed it and yet I can't find a dll or separate program in the directory...
(4 / 5)
It can do everything... just download it
(5 / 5)
Easily the best free software sampler. Tons of great features, including slicing! Support the devs and buy the paid version, it's a bargain.
(5 / 5)
Really intuitive and easy use!
(4 / 5)
I liked it but it crash my Reaper alot and usually causing flickering of audio files. Only some of versions doesnt flickering audio. I have Windows XP 32 bit. They should repair this.
(0 / 5)
I was so hopeful. But after installing, I had to find out by searching the net, that it requires SP3 on win XP or it don't work. Thank You. Then I found out it only requires MSXML6 from microsoft. so I installed it. But still nothing. Then on the way I found many complains about crashes. Then I gave up....
(5 / 5)
One of the best I've used. So good, I lashed out and bought the pro-version. But, the free version is great too. Powerful, and not too limited in what you can do. Highly recommend.
(5 / 5)
This sampler is awesome! It does pretty much everything that my Directwave one does in FL except it is free. If you have a host, don't waste your money. This is top notch. The editor and the meters are great. It is also pretty easy to use.
(5 / 5)
Read pdf before you use this one. It works like hardware samplers do. Can record, slice, edit samples and a lot more. Even have a sound preview in Open file dialog. This one, Highlife and Shortcircuit are the top.