Just looking for a basic plug in that will play wave samples. Don't need anything fancy. Free would be nice too...:) thanks

Try Reasamplomatic, which is included in Reaper.

The two best free ones AFAIK are Shortcircuit V1.2 (version 2 never finished) and Independence Free. For Independence free, which sounds like what you are looking for, you drag and drop up to 25 .wav files per layer. Shortcircuit you can just drag and drop, too, from the media explorer. These do have some learning curve. For YT, you install it with its "root folder" which is where you have to put your samples, or copies of your samples. Then you just create a new layer, and grab twenty five samples and drag and drop them into the layer box (the box that says "new layer") Then there are different editing windows to use. Nothing available that is completely simple to use except for ReaSamplomatic, that I know of, but it doesn't have the ability of your sampler workstations.

OK, so I got it working with the reasamplematic within reaper. I can play one wave file at a time, but have to load each separately. I have a bunch of wave files. How can I load them as a bank or preset library? Can i turn the wave files into the reaper ext? I want to be able to scroll through waves files like you do a sound module. sorry, I'm a guitar player...:) tx

thanks - media explorer works, although still a bit combersome. Does the reasynth (4 out) in reaper allow for wave files? Is there a way to change wav files to the format needed for the synth instruments? thanks