From full-featured behemoths and retro emulations to MPC-style beatmakers and must-have freebies, we round up 10 software samplers that make sampling fun, fast and intuitive ...

The successor to the Logic Pro X EXS24 software sampler is here with backwards compatibility, new Alchemy toys, and particularly intelligent sampling tech.

The modern software sampler is a phenomenally powerful and flexible music-making tool. Platforms like Steinberg HALion and NI Kontakt are infinitely more capable than the hardware samplers of the late ...

A preview edition of the Lindows OS offers insight into how the software will aim to combine the benefits of Windows and Linux. But, it still leaves many unconvinced.

Hardware samplers have never been more powerful than they are today, and digitally recording and manipulating audio is no longer the domain of software only. That’s why today, we’re taking a look at ...

Well, I was going to start this part off with a eulogy for EXS24 — a software sampler instrument cemented into the Logic Pro eco-system for 15+ years at this point — but Apple has done some ...

Berlin, Germany-based musical software developer Native Instruments has released Kontakt 1.1, its software sampler. This new version has been released for the Mac for the first time, and the 1.1 ...

Sample-based instruments Software samplers are applications that store many small recordings of an instrument (or sound effect), and play them back in response to keyboard input.

Lindows offers a software sampler A preview edition of the Lindows OS offers insight into how the software will aim to combine the benefits of Windows and Linux, but it leaves many unconvinced ...