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Audiolayer - Anyone have any awesome instruments they’d like to share?

After much procrastination I’ve finally bought AL in the sale.
I don’t have time to create my own instruments, nor do I own many samples that I could use even if I wanted.
Anyone have any AL instruments they are particularly proud of that they’d be willing to share?
Not looking for acoustic pianos or Rhodes, but interested in anything else that is otherwise not easily producible in other iOS apps.

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  • As mentioned in the sales thread, you can find EXS24 and SFZ instruments at https://www.pianobook.co.uk/packs

    You can filter by sampler format.

    "Pianobook is a peer-to-peer community of composers, producers and sound smiths sharing their sounds for all to use for free. Set up by Spitfire Audio founder Christian Henson the aim of this community is promote the notion that the best sounds for music are made by people who make it!"

  • edited November 2021

    For now I’m only using downloaded instruments or from sample packs that I bought. But there is a huge potential in using SynthJacker and AudioLayer to create instruments from your own synths. I always wanted to do that but then I got lost in jamming 😇

  • There’s some sfz and EXS presets here. As well as lots of regular SoundFonts

    https://musical-artifacts.com/

  • Triple felt piano

  • @krassmann said:
    For now I’m only using downloaded instruments or from sample packs that I bought. But there is a huge potential in using SynthJacker and AudioLayer to create instruments from your own synths. I always wanted to do that but then I got lost in jamming 😇

    AudioLayer has autosampling that covers most of the needs served by synthjacker.

  • @espiegel123 said:

    @krassmann said:
    For now I’m only using downloaded instruments or from sample packs that I bought. But there is a huge potential in using SynthJacker and AudioLayer to create instruments from your own synths. I always wanted to do that but then I got lost in jamming 😇

    AudioLayer has autosampling that covers most of the needs served by synthjacker.

    Really? I didn’t know. Now I found that in AudioLayers Fx plugin… I never looked into that. Thank you.

  • Thanks everyone.
    I don’t seem to be able to get SFZ or EXS24 to work in AL. I’m following the instructions in the manual and can import the instrument but it makes no noise.
    Do I have to set up all the zones & layers etc myself?

  • @TimRussell said:
    Thanks everyone.
    I don’t seem to be able to get SFZ or EXS24 to work in AL. I’m following the instructions in the manual and can import the instrument but it makes no noise.
    Do I have to set up all the zones & layers etc myself?

    You shouldn’t have set up zones, etc

  • So I just watched an AudioDabbler YouTube about AudioLayer, and read a few comments.

    Is the juice worth the squeeze on this? I'm leery of spending a lot of effort to import stuff and tweak it.

    Thx

  • edited November 2021

    @telecharge said:
    As mentioned in the sales thread, you can find EXS24 and SFZ instruments at https://www.pianobook.co.uk/packs

    I’ve been using decent sampler up to this point, it’s ok, new versions fix and break various things, but I can’t complain because it’s free.

    so can I ask, would this be a better App to use for pianobook instruments?

  • @joegrant413 said:
    So I just watched an AudioDabbler YouTube about AudioLayer, and read a few comments.

    Is the juice worth the squeeze on this? I'm leery of spending a lot of effort to import stuff and tweak it.

    Thx

    I guess that depends on your instrument needs. It should just be a matter of importing the instrument and using it. If it doesn't work, then delete it and find another. When it comes to community instruments, compatibility and quality are going to vary.

    For example, as stated on https://sfzinstruments.github.io: "Be aware that these instruments may not be compatible with some players due to the use of unsupported sfz opcodes."

    @timforsyth said:
    I’ve been using decent sampler up to this point, it’s ok, new versions fix and break various things, but I can’t complain because it’s free.

    so can I ask, would this be a better App to use for pianobook instruments?

    I don't use it, but it seems like it could be nice to have as an option. There are a number of instruments there only offered in the DS format. I noticed that SampleScience has started releasing instruments for DS, too. Their latest offering is a free vibraphone that you can get from https://www.samplescience.info/2021/11/vibraphone-renaissance.html

  • For 3rd-party EXS24 is it as straight-forward as plopping them in a local Audiolayer folder and importing? It’s not fiddly accepting by different company or anything?
    Also, seem to remember reading when this came out that it was a cryptic interface? Trying to avoid anything on iOS that’s kludgy/huge learning curve, use Kontakt so maybe lots over overlap..

  • @TimRussell said:
    Thanks everyone.
    I don’t seem to be able to get SFZ or EXS24 to work in AL. I’m following the instructions in the manual and can import the instrument but it makes no noise.
    Do I have to set up all the zones & layers etc myself?

    Problem solved. I didn’t have the sample folders at the same folder hierarchy as the exs file. Once I moved them and re-imported it worked fine.

  • This is a mighty nice felt https://www.pianobook.co.uk/packs/triple-felt-experiment/ Might be worth picking up AL to have a budget Noire.

  • edited November 2021

    @Model10000 said:
    For 3rd-party EXS24 is it as straight-forward as plopping them in a local Audiolayer folder and importing? It’s not fiddly accepting by different company or anything?
    Also, seem to remember reading when this came out that it was a cryptic interface? Trying to avoid anything on iOS that’s kludgy/huge learning curve, use Kontakt so maybe lots over overlap..

    It’s only more to learn if you get deep into creating your own instruments. Otherwise it’s basically loading the presets. it comes with a lot since the VSCO library is downloadable from inside the app. Plus lots online, exs24, etc…

  • @Poppadocrock Cool. I bought it before I saw that and would have overlooked VSCO library download area for bit. Thanks.
    Installed the triple felt linked above and it sounds way different than the demo. With iPad on full, get barely any volume. Wonder if I installed the EXS24 wrong, or if it’s compatibility with the pack…
    Tried:
    1 Put the .exs files in a “felt piano” folder with a folder of respective samples at the same level. Put that in Audiolayer’s import folder. Opened audiolayer, imported the folder. Showed up, but no sound.

    2 Put the .exs in the same folder with the samples. Dropped that in Audiolayer import folder. Imported it via Audiolayer. Showed up and they play super quiet and don’t sound right.

    Anyone see what could be wrong there?

  • Since Decent sampler has a much more comfortable workflow to use (just one file to open and you are good to flow)
    but when I used Audioplayer a lot I was laving these here

    https://www.pianobook.co.uk/packs/sky-felt-piano/
    https://www.pianobook.co.uk/packs/winter-felt-piano-prototype/

  • I have Decent already and use it so good to know. Will give those a go in Audiolayer and see if it’s my method or the pack. Thanks

  • LeaLea
    edited November 2021

    Audiolayer is awesome, also got it recently thanks to this forum. The downloadable libraries through the build in download function cover a lot of classic orchestra instruments.

    Other than that, I found this Kawai upright piano sfz rather charming, I was able to import it into Audiolayer: https://freepats.zenvoid.org/Piano/acoustic-grand-piano.html

    The AKAI piano sfz description is very interesting https://github.com/sfzinstruments/SplendidGrandPiano/ with the download at https://github.com/sfzinstruments/SplendidGrandPiano/zipball/master but Audiolayer just exits when I use the import option, is anybody able to import that?

  • I’ve had AL for a while now, but have never really used it for anything. This thread has got me interested.

  • Additionally, there are more VCSL sfz instruments available at https://vis.versilstudios.com/vcsl.html

    I imported the "Grand Piano, Kawai" and the "Concert Harp" from there into Audiolayer and played them a bit, so far the first impressions are good.

  • IMO, AudioLayer is worth it even if just to load the Salamander piano.

  • @Model10000 said:
    @Poppadocrock Cool. I bought it before I saw that and would have overlooked VSCO library download area for bit. Thanks.
    Installed the triple felt linked above and it sounds way different than the demo. With iPad on full, get barely any volume. Wonder if I installed the EXS24 wrong, or if it’s compatibility with the pack…
    Tried:
    1 Put the .exs files in a “felt piano” folder with a folder of respective samples at the same level. Put that in Audiolayer’s import folder. Opened audiolayer, imported the folder. Showed up, but no sound.

    2 Put the .exs in the same folder with the samples. Dropped that in Audiolayer import folder. Imported it via Audiolayer. Showed up and they play super quiet and don’t sound right.

    Anyone see what could be wrong there?

    I think, if I remember correctly AL patches are best loaded from inside the app, unzipped. Open presets and at the bottom You will see import and import folder. Try that way.

  • Sfz it shows importing the zip

  • edited November 2021

    I use to have over 40GB AudioLayer patches sampled from omnisphere and other vsts.
    I mistakenly reset my iPad and forgot to turn off auto backup so the backup with all my instruments is gone.
    I however did sampled it again but with few patches this time have about 6GB now.
    Is there a simple way of sharing patches instead manually exporting etc patch?
    Here are some of the sounds

  • Hi all AudioLayer enthustiasts,
    First of all, thank you all for sharing your instruments, librairies and samples. It is invaluable.
    Personnaly, I appreciate the power of AudioLayer and what it allows to do on the iOS platform...
    I have started to download the VSCL libraries and try to mess around to make my own brass/strings ensembles.
    When using "Layers", I find personnaly very difficult to work without the ability to mute/unmute layers the one after the other. Also, when editing the "Filter" section : as soon as I play a note, the edited zone focus changes automatically making it very difficult to work, particularly when you have several zones overlapping.
    Do you have some tricks and pro advices to work efficiently on complex instruments building (ie. several layers with many zones overlapping) ?
    Thank you very much !

  • @espiegel123 said:
    IMO, AudioLayer is worth it even if just to load the Salamander piano.

    Could you share the source please?

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