TX16w – a free multitimbral VSTi software sampler inspired by samplers of the 80s and 90s – is now available for Mac. It had previously only been available for Windows. 

The MacOSX plug-in is available as a 32/64 bit AUi universal binary and a 64-bit VSTi. The user interface requires a Cocoa capable host.

Features:

• Re-sizable, flexible GUI 
  • Full Undo/Redo support
  • Built-in file browser with sound playback and wave and program preview
    
• Unlimited multi-timbral operation
• 128 voice polyphony
  • 12/24 dB resonant filters
    • Low–, high, band- and allpass
    • Notch, peak, low– and highshelf
      
  • Two syncable LFO per voice
  • Two Modulation Envelopes per voice
  • Three Sequence LFO per voice
  • Modulation matrix with 16 modulation slots per voice
  • Multiple keyboard scales
  • Multiple trigger modes
  • Mono/Poly/Legato operation
  • 8 choke groups per program
  • Per-sample loop start/end/direction modulation
  • Polyphonic glide
  • Polyphony limit per channel
    
• Built-in sample editor
  • Automatic Loop Slicing + slice mapping
  • Actually Samples! Record audio straight into the sampler.
  • Automatic pitch detection
  • Loop tools
  • Loop cross fading
    
  • Multiple loop definitions per wave
  • Trim, cut, duplicate
  • Pitch detection
  • Normalize
  • Reverse
    
  • Tempo detection
    
• Graphical keyboard mapping editor
  • Automatic sample layout
  • Flexible drag & drop-based group edit
    
• Quick select of sound data via MIDI
• Drag & drop of samples/programs/performances/banks
• Multiple outputs
  • 4 Stereo + 8 Mono outputs
  • Individual output mapping for key groups (drums)
• 16 mappable controllers for automation
• 48 mappable VST parameters for automation
• Preview loaded programs and samples in your song before loading
  
• Reads multiple sample and bank formats
  
  • WAV/AIFF/AIFC
  • SoundFont 2
  • SFZ Files
  • Ogg Vorbis
  • FLAC
    
  • Typhoon compressed AIF files
  • Original Yamaha OS Wave files
• 100% documented XML-based sound file format.
  
  • Anyone can write conversion tools.
• Saves data in DAW project directory
• Low CPU usage
• Fully native, optimized for SSE2.
• MacOSX AU/VST64 & Windows VST support
  
• 64-bit support

Note: A commercial ‘pro’ version is also available. See the TX16w site for details.