Can´t remember if you said this in the vid or not, butI just found out a crazy feature to me at least using a lot of drum sounds from different kits. If you load a sample from a folder you can simply go forward or backward in the folder from the plug in and change the sample with it. Smooth.
I have noticed that drums has been the most impactful thing to my creativity and having a tool like this will certainly boost both creativity and productivity! THANK YOU!!
Man, THIS is a game changer for the simple fact I can assign sounds using MIDI learn to my Akai MPK, AND it’s easier to put in multi-output mode than Ni’s Battery and Polyplex. Great find, sir!! 👍🏾😎💯
Can't tell you how long I've searched for something like this. I couldn't justify the $200 for Battery 4 and my go-to has been Captain Beat from the Captain Plugins suite. And here we have a free plugin that was exactly what I wanted. Thank you!
With a little more work on this ... it could be the great Simpler replacement for LPX. Needs Glide etc so we can do vocal chops!! I've been looking for that forever.
this is perfect. i dislike all the free drum VSTs that come with their own hardwired samples and i also dislike dragging individual samples around the timeline. sitala is the best of both worlds, it allows me to assign my own samples to midi notes so i can use them in a piano roll.
I almost forbid myself from looking at another drum sampler but since it's you I had to watch it. And now I have to get it for the midi learn feature alone!
Hello, great video thanks. I have one question. When I set up an exclusive or choke group for the high hats it works fine. However when I separate out my drum pieces in logics arrange window (by using the separate by note pitch technique) the choke group doesnt work anymore. Any ideas? Thanks.
Just got this. LOVE it. Does anyone know if there's a way to set it so it only plays a sample for the length of time you're pressing the midi button? I've been loading in some 10 second pads and would love to just glitch their attacks but have the option of continuing through the loop if I keep it triggered, but have it stop when I don't. At the moment it plays through the whole sample on one press. Thanks
i l0ve this vst 0ne day a guy was showing all the LinnDrum sounds fr0m the 80s. i Stereo Mix record every sound he made. i made me a LinnDrum kit for this vst l0l
This plugin is a boon to someone like me who doesn't have midi keyboard. Able to play all the pads on white keys makes things easier. Can't freaking believe that's it's free
Does it audition sounds when you browse them? I find it's a must have feature for a drum sampler, considering all of us have thousands of drum samples to go through.
If you use the 'load sample' option, or just drag from the finder window, yes. I've never had an issue auditioning a lot of samples because in MacOS you can just press spacebar to hear the sample, then press down to quickly move to the next. From the 'browse' menu when you load, no.
If you´re in a folder of drums you can move around the folder from the plug in. While swapping sounds you also get an audition of the sound so actually yes but no I guess.
When you load a sound, you have 2 arrows at the bottom of the sample screen. If you tap the arrows you change the sample and hear it too. At the top of the sample screen you can change the folders. Simply brilliant!
In addition to the comments below that tell you how to browse a folder, if you highlight multiple samples and drag them to an empty Sitala pad, it will insert them simultaneously, in order.
Thank you very much for finding very useful info and sharing it. SITALA is really very simple and useful plug-in. We all should thank team decomposer for providing this for free. Hope everyone should credit them whenever we use their plug-in. Thank you once again MTHG. Link to download decomposer.de/sitala/
I hope apple buys this company. It’s the only way they come up with really good new instruments. This is how a drum sampler should look like. Clarity, simplicity, ease of use, no fancy FX or synthesis.
CHOKE!!! So important! Love Sitala. . On Windows, just be careful overwriting your sets; sometimes it corrupts the file. I just make new saves on my sets and then go back later and delete the old ones I don't need. Hopefully they'll fix this soon.
This was really helpful thanks. Question, can this plugin work with GarageBand? Not sure I'm doing it wrong, the version is old, or it's just not possible. Thanks.
Thanks that’s actually helpful, but not what quite I meant. You still have to first play the key in that case to select the channel. In sitala you, like in other drum samplers, just can drag the sample from your finder window or anywhere into a sitala channel.
I don't think you can do that but if you want, you can load a sample into your daw, add space before the sample's sound begins, then save that whole bit as a wav file and it should accomplish it
Dumb question inbound, all of the plugins I have installed show up automatically in Logic but this one doesn't. What am I missing here? I can open and use Sitala but only as a standalone thing.
Make sure you installed the PKG file that's included with the download. There's a standalone app that you drag to the Applications folder, but then a separate PKG file you have to install for the plug-in versions.
I had the same issue. When you install it there are TWO install options. One is for the plugin and one is for the stand alone APP. You probably did what I did and accidentally only installed the stand alone app. Try reinstalling and look for the Package file in the installer program.
Turning off velocity can mean two things. 1. it can mean a velocity of zero which is essentially a note off message. Or 2 what I think you’re asking is if you can make all of the velocities the same value or the highest value? You can have your track fix velocity by adding the velocity processor MIDI FX at the top of the channel strip.
Thank you for posting this, still a newbie, I installed Sitala but can't find it in Logic Pro Mac, am I forgetting to do something, any help would be appreciated. thank you
Does anyone know how to assign multiple samples to the same output on Sitala? For example...I don't want my open Hi hat and my closed hat to come through different channels.....HALP!
Hopefully that's a feature they add in the future. If you want your grouped channels to come through the same channel, you could add an additional aux channel and buss over the hi hat channels to a single aux.
Yeah, I mentioned that the end. it's not a drum synthesizer like Ultrabeat. Sampler only. So it has no synthesis functions, it can't generate sound on it's own, and it won't be able to modulate the pitch with an envelope like Ultrabeat can. Pitch rolls you could actually do, just automate the pitch parameter and type in the notes at the rolling rhythm you like.
i dont see how its better than ultrabeat ? its just simpler ? but if you wanna use ultrabeat simply then.. u can.. but sitala is much more limited. (?)
I use Battery sometimes as well. If you need more complex sampling like round robin or velocity layers, or the different articulations -- those are features that Sitala does not have. And I personally never use any of Battery's built in effects. So it wouldn't be a better option for everything, but for quickly building custom drum kits, I find it the easiest and quickest to use.
