Yeah, heard about Grace, but people say it's pretty heavy on CPU unfortunatly.

 

While we're on the subject don't forget about TX16Wx Software Sampler [FREE]

current version update is 3.4.0p / 21 NOV 2020

https://www.tx16wx.com/

 

Sample from daw output!

 

Haven't used it extensively, but I didn't notice any problem with its CPU usage though.

Great recommendation! Although the interface might seem a bit daunting at first (which is part of the reason why I haven't made the effort to learn it properly yet), I have to say it is very powerful and offers many more features than the other ones mentioned here.

 

Thanks a lot for adding these @SineWave! Here are mirrors in case these links go down in the future.
1. Grace
2. Poise

 

The guy who ran One Small Clue called it quits quite a while back, which is unfortunate, as I don't always want a sketch track, or just a basic track, bogged down with the CPU-hungry Maschine. But, I've been hyped on Apisonic's Speedrum which, although it's still in the final beta stages, will reportedly be out as a full v1.0 within the next month or so, if everything goes as planned.
I'm more than hyped on it, as I've been looking for a quick, lite-weight sampler that will work with my Akai/Maschine/etc. 16teen pads for a while now, and between the clean, sonible-esque GUI, the fact you can resize it, save kits, and it has simple & fast cut/choke features, as well as having a lot of Poise's features, well, it's worth checking out--oh, and there's no account necessary. I'm excited.

https://apisoniclabs.com/

 

I checked it out today (Sitala) and was immediately impressed by how easy it is to work with, yet it can probably do what I need. Love how nicely it integrates with Reaper... avoiding the manual labor of routing things out and naming the channels.

 

Thanks for the heads-up! Looks interesting.

 

@eXACT_Beats_
Thank you for the information, and for the Speedrum recommendation. It looks really nice, I suppose that might have been the only thing that 'bothered' me about Sitala, that it doesn't have a dark skin. Speedrum looks more pleasant to the eyes for me.

Kinda sad how everyone's talking about other drum samplers now though, because Sitala is still a big accomplishment in my book, the devs have been super nice and I think their software is fantastic.

 

That was true until this release; as noted at the top of the features list though, this release adds sample trimming and beat slicing.