Simple Microtonal Sampler v1.5, 64-bit Windows Polyphonic free VST3 and VST2. Over 5000 tunings.

Latest version: v1.6 (April 16, 2023). FIXED TUNING PICKER PROBLEM. If you’ve used this VST before, please read the text doc in the zip for old users.

March 25, 2023: ALL BUGS FIXED. DOES NOT CRASH. ALSO ADDED FINE AND ROUGH TUNING CONTROLS!

5377 microtonal tunings, plus you can add your own. Comes with 2 example samples, plus you can add any of your own. You can re-tune any instrument or any sound microtonally by using a sample of it.

A song using this sampler and 8 EDO scale. Note: microtonal music can take a few hours of listening to sound “right” lol. But this is one of many scales in this software:

Another song that uses this sampler. (in 31 TET, 23 TET, 10 EDphi, 8 ED3 (+12 edo) tonal scale options:

Street Date: March 25, 2023. Initial release version: 0.9. VST ID: smsa.
Mfg ID: BIPT. Website: biptunia.com

Other VSTs we make, including some microtonal

Simple Microtonal Sampler is the ONLY microtonal Windows sampler. And it’s free.

Includes 8 presets (including 2 in 12 TET, standard western common tuning, for comparison), two samples, and 5376 microtonal tunings. You can add your own WAV samples too.
The audio file above is a quick test I did with the two included samples, 31 TET temperament, and some drums.

The vocal sample is a male human saying “Intergalactic Gas” . The music sample is an A-440 sine wave.

Tested with 16-bit and 24-bit WAVs, both mono and stereo.

But of course, you can use your own samples. That’s the whole point!

Any WAV can be imported into the

/samples

subfolder.

The Tune Rough and Tune Fine sliders allow you to change the base note of a sample.

The default is zero in the middle. You can go above this or below this.

To return to zero, either type 0 in the box and hit enter, or you can move the sliders more slowly by holding down CTRL and moving the slider.

Or you can go above the presets and hit “Reset to factory default”, though this will reset everything.

You’ll have to use the picker to find the tunings file inside the VST file on your hard drive.

IF YOU EVER GET AN ERROR where you can’t close and/or use anything on the synth, it has not crashed, it is just looking in the wrong folder. This happens usually if you rename a file path that includes the VST. If this happens just look for the “MidiPlayer2” error message in your system tray, click on OK, and close it.

Background photo of Andromeda Galaxy by the author: Michael W. Dean of BipTunia synths. Full photo here.

Add new tuning files in .MID format, can export from Scala.

Enjoy, and please tell two friends.

This program covered by the BipCot NoGov license, v1.2

This allows use and re-use by anyone except governments and government agents. There are no government guns for violators, only shame.

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