Sampler Track | New Features in Cubase Pro 9

Hey, it would be much easier if you could add time stamps to your video, so we don't need to browse and search for the topic we need to know, and eventually abandon because we scrolled to far

I like using this more than halion. Simple and powerful. Please create a hardware controller with a knob to adjust sample start position. Been asking for 10 years!

Probably the worst sampler I've seen in any DAW. You cannot even slice a sample into smaller pieces and trigger them independently via MIDI notes. Even the decade old free Shortcircuit sampler can do this without any hassle. Steinberg, step your game up if you want to remain relevant and spare us the ignorance and arrogance.

why doesn't have any realease function????? like simpler in
ableton

probs the best feature you've ever introduced

Can you map different samples to each key, like halion?

I tried to transfer to Halion but it's greyed out. Only groove agent can be transferred to. Is it because it's version pro 10 ?

how do you export the sample/loop track downwithout cubase adding a space in front or clipping the tail? I prouced a few 8 bar measure loops that I tried to import into MPC Live hardware, and when importing there is like a silent gap before the audio starts and the tial clips off so when you looop it you hear a skip/blip in the audio and its really annoying.. I double checked all the midi data, all of the midi notes/events were snapped to their measure pars, set the locators properly; even made sure all audio started on 1 (snapped) and ended at bar 8.. and there is still a gap in front and clip off the tail at the end causing the loops to stutter...is there a more efficient way to export a loop?.. I have a live audition coming up and running out of time trying to figure this out
Currently using Cubase 9.5 Pro, and exporting/importing into MPC Live - Sampler..

Also.. for troubleshooting.. I tried importing the audio clips into Cool Edit Pro, even Adobe Audition and its the same exact issue so it isnt the mpc doing it.. any help would be greatly appreciated..

Is there a way to assign a sample to a key?

Just like fruity loops sampler
Wish you add patterns like fl studio

Wait wait wait so I have legit copy of CB9 I can actually get my own wav sample to spread across the piano and edit it envelope wise and others? I thought I had to buy the full version of Halion sampler that doesn't come built in with CB9 PRO in order to do that. If I come back home and manage to do this I will be so effin happy!!! (

Does Caleidoscope come with the "Artist 9" version?

Is it possible to create round robins for one key?

lovely...is the sampler track available in cubase elements 9?

Hi There...

What's the difference between continuous loop mode and until release? When I use the Sampler Control, both seem to work the same way, i.e., the sample will be triggered as long as the note is being held down.

I'm a long-time Logic user. I'd jump ship to Cubase for the Sampler Track alone... if Steinberg supported nks interfacing with NI hardware. I guess they see Native Instruments as a competitor (Halion vs. Kontakt, etc.) and don't want to help them out in any way. But it's a very short-sighted strategy.

What's the point of this video? The narrator is just reading the labels off the various controls.

The menu itself is hugely unintuitive. That's classic Cubase approach though.

I spent a fair amount of time trying to figure out how to even start playing the sample!! Apparently, the blue piano key is supposed to do the trick. How is a first time user supposed to figure that one out?!

Also, if you double click an audio track it opens in the 'Editor' tab by default, at the bottom. Now if you switch to the 'Sampler control' tab it shows as blank. Next if you redrag the same audio track in to this tab - lo and behold - nothing happens!! What Cubase chooses to do here s to create 'another' sampler track at the bottom of the existing track lanes. And THAT is the one you need to double click for anything to show in the 'Sample Control' tab.

Good luck in figuring that one out. For a good while I thought that the feature wasn't working at all. I repeated the process a few times not realising that a pile of sampler tracks was getting added at the bottom of my project window!!

Anyone who activated Cubase version 6 or later after something like the 26th of October 2016 can get a free upgrade I think

does it recognize hit points from the audio editor and map them to different keys? if so, can it also recognize REX files?

is the sampler track available in cubase elements 9?

.... i just bought cubase elements 8 like 2 months ago and now this came?... my luck...

"Hi everyone! Is it possible to import sf2 files on the sample track without using halion?

Ansich eine tolle Ergänzung. Aber warum muß man oben rechts im Editor lesen in welchem Modus er sich befindet? Wäre doch viel übersichtlicher wenn sich die Farbe der entsprechenden Sektion ändert. Optisch ist das Ding ohnehin ein Graus. Aber ist ja offensichtlich eh nur ein Angebot für Englischaffine People...

What would be cool is getting Sampler to recognise the 'clipping' point in the Project window, so say if you have a drum loop and you scissor down a single snare - at the mo when you drop that snare you drop the whole loop from the recording.

The main video on Steinberg page is showing a snippet in the Project window is dragged into the Sampler instance, and voilá already trimmed. But.... was the scissored clip already 'printed' / rendered as a separate audio segment then dropped back in the track, for 'advertising'? if so seems a little 'smoke and mirrors' to get the effect that we want but can't achieve without a couple of extra processes....

Still picked up v9 anyway

Why can't you slice in the sampler? A feature I use quite often in Ableton Live 9.5? Will that feature be added in a later update?

Why no key detection?

Ist es möglich da Slicer Marker zu erstellen und zu schneiden wie im Audio Editor?

I know dis is off topic but I want someone to confirm dis for me. Is it possible to put my personal sample folder in the media bay and be able to audition the samples while I'm working? I'm asking Bcos that's one thing I love about FL Studio simple way of manipulating samples for electronic music. Finally I can say goodbye to FL Studio workflow having the new sampler track included in Cubase pro 9. But I need to be sure of how i'm gonna be working with my own samples inside of Cubase 9.

got the upgrade, its not worth it at all. very few good features, and a few bad ones. dont get it

Guys I've been looking into it too. Just got it installed last night.
The audio from the sampler track can be fed into a VST3 plugin's "audio in". So you can use the ADSR mod control (example.retrologue) or if it's present in your choice of vst3 plugin.
And it's not same as grooveagent at all. But a nice in between to speed up workflow it seems. Still you have an integrated menu to send output to grooveagent-retrologue-halion etc.
It's really good & helps my workflow to be more efficient. it's cool & fast ^^ Excited to see what I can do with this baby hahah

Keep in mind this is a simple sample track, not a dedicated sampler to replace anything.
Grooveagent is drum sampler, Halion is instrument sampler, those products are working side by side with this new feature, in the bigger picture.
Glad they didn't replace them, but added a fast sampler in ^^
If you want a dedicated sampler there are packages like kontakt, or the free tx16wx etc. out there that you can add to your array of tools.

I try to think positive of what can be achieved & in overall workflow. Sure it certainly would be cool to have an sampler that could use .exs of logic, .abl of ableton & .nki of kontakt in one modular sampler instead of 3.
I feel y'all on that, but it would mean the end of their businesses in the sampler market/daw industry haha ^^, so I don't think any of them would ever do that.
Companies have to respect eachother afterall, and so do we have to respect one another. let's have fun exploring & producing! cheers all

Great feature ^^. What file formats does it import/support?
I was wondering if Soundfonts [.Sfz] are compatible, along the other sample formats. Or are we limited to the audio that mediabay can import? [WAV-AIFF-WMA-MP3-OGG-FLAC-REX]
If you could link me to where it's stated, I'd appreciate it ^^ cheers

this is fucking awesome, I wish I could afford it...

Amazing and innovative idea!!! This sampler track has so much potential! Are you able to process the sample with plugins/inserts/sends within the track?

can you import rex files into it and trigger each sample on different keys? Also, can you drag in a drum loop and detect hitpoint, slice sample and spread the slices over keyzone? that'd be rather sexy if so

This is basically the same as groove agent I want a ex24 sampler like found in Logic Pro where we can control the sample ASDR etc thanx for NOT listening don't think I'll upgrade from 8.5 maybe I'll get my sampler in cubase 20

looks like i have to upgrade right away, like every year :-P

Are we able to slice and chop samples with that sampler track like with a MPC/Maschine?

YES thank you I've been wanting something so simple like this forever. It's just like Live's Simpler.

AWESOME feature! good job Cubase team :D

PLEASE I hope we can crop/truncate samples

lol not even a lfo to spare for the sampler channel? amateurish!

That doesn't explain at all what you did with the piano phrase played at the beginning of the video. We know you can IMPORT files but, what about live playing? In other words, what's the purpose of showing the MIDI and Audio from the piano phrase at the beginning if we don't get to see how that can be manipulated withing a project. Can the samples be played via MIDI?

Are you able to have multiple sample tracks or just one? If you send it to grove agent SE 4 dose its retain polyphonic? i.e. dose it render a file for each note in the key zone?

Not sure what the point of the sampler instrument is when we have GrooveAgent SE4 already. Why not just drag a sample to that instead? I guess you can't cannibalise sales of Halion but a cutdown version of that might have been more useful.