165 Results for "sampling"

The 7-year wait is over: NI Kontakt 6 has landed with new instruments and effects

Kontakt 6 brings the world's favorite sampler up to scratch and has enough new content to warrant an upgrade from the almost 7-year old Kontakt 5 engine.

Get Hooked with Output’s new vocal mangling instrument for Arcade

Hooked is a novel vocal sample player and mangler where you play various vocal recordings on a virtual keyboard. Some have been recorded dry, while others have been processed with God knows what...

SampleRobot 6: fully automated recording and sample instrument building

SampleRobot 6 sucks in sounds and spits out sample library. Connect up any hardware synth, or loopback any virtual one to automatically generate multisampled instruments. Now available on MacOS and Windows.

Native Instruments updates industry standard sampler platform Kontakt 6

Kontakt 6 brings new sounds, new effects, a wavetable synthesis engine and the ability to design, build and script your own instruments. Does the upgrade tick enough boxes for your Kontakt wish list?

Crusher-X Granular Synthesizer gets overly familiar with MPE

Developed with ROLI, makers of the Seaboard MPE controllers, Crusher-X is embracing all 5 dimensions of this expressive technology so you can push your grains in many directions at once.

Atlas maps out your drum samples using a novel AI engine

Atlas is an AI-powered tool which maps out your drum samples, analyzes them, categorizes them, and constructs makeshift drum kits that are ready to go inside your DAW. It looks like an useful tool for ...

Output takes us to the Arcade for a coin-operated loop synthesizer

Arcade is subscription based, looks fabulous, sounds awesome and has a wonderfully intuitive synthesizer engine to manipulate loops. You'll get new content every day, forever provided you keep paying your $10.

PreSonus releases Studio One 4 with sampling, patterns, chords and drum editing

There's talk of loops and beat production, pattern editors, chords, seamlessness, sampling and advanced virtual instruments. That's a lot to pack into the new version 4 of Studio One.

Ginko Synthese Sampleslicer MK2 will sample and slice even better than before

Just on Kickstarter is the MK2 of the Ginko Synthese real-time sampling module Sampleslicer. With better quality, all through-hole components, clock CV, auto-calibrating, higher gain and an inaudible noise ...

Gotharman’s DuoSpaze 4 part multi-timbral synthesizer/sampler and FX box

The DuoSpaze packs 2 synthesizers and 2 samplers into a multi-timbral, touchscreen groovebox with filters, effects and a matrix of modulation. There's a lot going on.

Norns: a platform for sound processing, synthesis, poetry and form

Norns is a minimalist metal box harbouring the power of processes to evolve and morph into anything you can write a script for. Monome's slow reveal is an enticing look into the mind of a synthesis developer.

LoopLords Genetix brings the Sega Genesis sound back to life once more

Genetix features 100 multi-sampled FM sounds inspired by various Genesis games' soundtracks. Can this plug-in make the intricacies of the Genesis sound chip available to modern productions?

Musikmesse 2018: Nord Piano 4 – this time it’s personal

We thought the Nord Piano 3 was the pinnacle of all red pianos, but just two years later the virtually hammered machine returns as the Nord Piano 4. It's red, it's seamless, it has crossfades and filters.

Output’s new Analog Brass & Winds instrument: “Next level air”?

We're pretty sure Output's new baby is capable of some bad-ass sounds in the right hands. Remember Nine Inch Nails' Capital G? Yeah, that's what distorted brass can sound like!

Quantakor plug-in: Mean AI-generated soundscapes and alien drones

Need a collection of moody sounds for your production? Eplex7 has come up with Quantakor, a soundscapes and FX instrument based on artificial intelligence algorithms. It packs scifi, kybernetic, experimental ...

Andrew Huang does Burial – with beats from a crashing piano

Andrew Huang uses audio sampled from a piano being dropped from 20 ft to create a cool beat, and makes the whole process look so impressively easy, spontaneous and intuitively musical.

HumBeatz browser app takes your hums, turns them into melodies and beats

Ever thought about how wickedly easy it would be if you could just hum some melody lines into the mic and have the computer play them with the sound of a particular instrument? Yeah, they made it happen!

Roland SP-404A announced: a cool little sampler for DJs

Roland announced a new sampler today, the SP-404A. With a maximum 12-voice polyphony, the SP-404A is able to store up to 120 samples and up to 120 patterns. It looks like a great tool for DJs wanting to ...

PLUS Pedal: a sustain pedal for every kind of instrument

Through real time audio sampling the PLUS Pedal can capture the end of notes and chords from any instrument or microphone and sustain them at the press of a beautiful brass pedal. Is it too hipster?

Elektron unveils Analog Rytm MK2 analog drum machine with sampling

Elektron went ahead and updated its analog drum machine, the Analog Rytm. The biggest news is the addition of sampling capability, a feature that was notably missing in the original hardware...

TC-Helicon Perform-VE: a banana-colored voice effects box

Ever felt the need to mangle your voice in a live situation? Then TC Helicon has something for you. Despite its toy-ish looks, the Perform VE houses effects and algorithms, a built-in mic pre-amp and MIDI ...

Octatrack MKII performance sampler announced by Elektron

Last night's leak foretold this morning's announcement of a new and updated Octatrack MKII. Seems like it might be more cosmetic than anything else and Elektron say it won't come with Overbridge.

Elektron Digitakt Sampling and Sequencing box is here

Digitakt is a sampling, sequencing, computer drumming, beat making powerhouse in a rather dull box. It's now available so check out the video for a tour of the workflow, then go buy one.

Superbooth 2017: Rossum Electro-Music Assimil8or Phase Modulation Sampler

Prepare yourself as multi-timbral phase modulation sampling hits Eurorack in the shape of Rossum Electro-Music's Assimil8or