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We recently had the chance to get our hands on a Roland Jupiter-6 synthesizer which seems to have time-travelled directly from 1983 to 2025. It looks and sounds superb as on the first day. The sound possibilites of this analog space ship are so impressive that we felt the need to capture its sounds permanently.

Before entering the final SampleRobot 7 testing stage and the release sprint afterwards we had the chance to visit Japan and were invited by Yamaha to see Innovation Road in Hamamatsu. This is where Yamaha shows what they have done in the past decades in respect of musical instruments and audio technology.

We prepared a very special sample set taken from the marvelous MS 2600 NG synthesizer for you to enjoy during the summer holiday. If you are into electronic percussion this set is for you. SampleRobot sampled 66 unique hand-crafted one-shot drum sounds ready to make your next groove session a lot of fun.

Two new hardware sampler instruments that were presented at this year's Superbooth seem particularly interesting to us. One is the 1010music bento - sampling production lab and the other one is Tasty Chips' GR MEGA - Granular workstation. We reached out to support their sample/mapping formats.

Spring is back in Berlin and so is Superbooth. If you are into electronic music and are in town from the 8th till the 10th of May you should not miss the wonderful opportunity to visit the latest Superbooth edition.
As always it promises a lot of fun, great live music and many nice encounters.

We had the rare opportunity to get an interview with renowned film composer and ambient music pioneer Michael Stearns on the topic of sampling.

Michael Stearns is best known for his soundtracks to Ron Fricke’s epochal 70MM movies Chronos, Baraka and Samsara.

Over the last weeks quite a few new users reached out to us with beginner questions how to use SampleRobot for their specific needs.
So this first blog entry for 2025 is all about questions that might come up when you start your first sampling session with SampleRobot.

You all have a wonderful Christmas and we wish you a creative year 2025. All the best for your musical projects and sound sampling adventures.
Please continue to share your sampling stories with us. We are very glad to hear about your projects and what you do with SampleRobot.

We are very glad to inform you about the upcoming SampleRobot 7 upgrade which is planned to be released in the first quarter of 2025. The grace period for upgrading to SampleRobot 7 has started 2024/11/01. That means if you are interested in purchasing SampleRobot now you will receive a free upgrade to version 7.

The Ambient & Atmospheres sound set for the Waldorf Microwave XT synthesizer series was programmed by Christian Halten in 1999/2000 and officially released in 2001 by the former Waldorf Electronics company. For the 25th anniversary we decided to offer these iconic sounds as newly produced sample sets.

As promised in our last blog post we sampled 10 patches, around 1.2 gigabytes audio material, from our little purple studio fellow. We captured most of the Fizmo sounds with more than one velocity layer to allow dynamic playing when you import the samples in your software or hardware sampler.