Download HERE. (2.7 megs)
(But if you want even more minimalism, check out our newer version of this, called StupidER SimpleR Sampler.)
Stupid Simple Sampler from BipTunia Synths is the easiest to use sampler there is. It’s stupid simple to use.
It’s a 64-bit VST, drop-dead simple, polyphonic, and a heck of a lot of fun.
It can handle any WAV sample, mono or stereo, any bit depth or sample rate.
It only has 5 controls.
1 is a box where you can chose your own sample.
The other 4 controls are A, D, S, and R (Attack, Decay, Sustain, Release.) You don’t even need to touch these four controls to use the sampler. They’re just for adding options.
It’s an old-school style sampler, like back when things were not complicated. It’s inspired by the tape samplers used by Pink Floyd in the 60s, and the hardware samplers used in rap in the early 80s.
Stupid Simple Sampler comes with 8 samples as presets. But you can add any samples you want, in the subfolder at
\StupidSimpleSampler\samples
FOR BEST SOUND, add a little bit of reverb, and a dash of light, fast, compression after this VST on the same track:
This free compression VST works great for this, without changing any settings from the default
The 8 included samples in Stupid Simple Sampler are:
bell, tone, meow, voice, bounce, clink, stick, and strings. We made all the samples. The strings are a sample of a 1979 Crumar Performer.
You can find our other free VSTs at https://biptunia.com/?page_id=2070
and our music is at: https://biptunia.com
Thank you so much for this dead SIMPLE wav player !
I have been struggling with Sforzando with little to no success.
I discovered your plugins during a quest for a plugin that did nothing but play wavs in Cakewalk.
That’s it.
No frills, just a player that plays wavs.
Imagine that !
And I’m even more fond of the Simpler player, no ADSR to confuse the issue !
Real old school !
Thank you again, I will gladly donate when I have a few extra dollars.
Or trade a few vsts !
(I write vsts, mainly meters, effects, etc.)
And your music is excellent !
Bill P.
Happy to help.
Where can I find your VSTs? I’ll check them out.
Michael W. Dean
Hi BipCat,
We use your StupidSimpleSampler for our AI project.
Works great on windows, but i have a question.
Linux is not so fan of .dll ‘s. Is it possible to use this in linux arm64?
For RaspberryPi’s and Nvidia Jetson Nanos?
Thank you in advance,
Kind regards,
Koen van der Wolf
Don’t know. Have you tried Wine?
Or maybe there’s a trick here?:
https://sevish.com/2019/how-to-make-microtonal-music-on-linux/
I’m sure there are samplers for Linux. Here are some:
https://plugins4free.com/search?term=sampler
That’s a good site, lets you search by operating system.
I do make the only microtonal sampler in the world, so if you get it working, try this:
https://biptunia.com/?p=4040
Also, that can work in 12TET (standard western), has more variables than this one, and there is a VST3 (non-DLL) as well as VST2 DLL.
Also let me know please if you get it working on Linux. Thanks!
Making music on RaspberryPi is a neat trick, but frustrating to do a full project. I’ve run Reaper on my RasPi, it’s one DAW that actually runs well on it, and it’s still excruciating to do any kind of power-user work on it. Even a slow old Windows computer is more satisfying to use than a RasPi to make music.
Reaper is my DAW of choice, here’s why I love it:
https://biptunia.com/?p=5385
Also, it comes with a free sampler, a couple of them actually. It’s also the DAW that runs well on the lowest-power systems (and runs VERY well on newer systems). And they have a dedicated ARM version, and there are tutorials online for putting it and running it on RasPi.
Michael W. Dean
Hi BipCat,
Thanks for your insight and swift response.
We tried a few things, but so far cannot validate a solution.
Someone else is at the moment attempting the https://www.linuxsampler.org/
Can you by change send the sourcecode of the .dll?
It’s not source code, it’s a SynthEdit project,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SynthEdit
not sure it would even transfer to Linux.
I’d be happy to share it with you if I still had it, but I had a backup drive failure a few years ago and lost a lot of things. That was one of many.
There are linux samplers. Stupid Simple Sampler isn’t special. The two free ones in Reaper Linux version are more robust.
I use Linux on one laptop, but I only do music on Windows, there is SO MUCH MORE free software for it for music. Making music with Linux (especially with ARM) sounds to me like swimming with weights on. I only know of one person who makes serious music with Linux (Sevish), and I know hundreds of people making music on Windows.
Windows has it’s issues, but Linux has limitations for music.
There are at least 4 music-faced Linux version you might check out.
https://linuxhint.com/best-music-production-linux-distros/
Maybe one has a sampler, but like I said Reaper comes with two of them.