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Before the summer break we asked you to vote for your favorite synthesizer out of five instruments, each of them having a special edge. From the retro-futuristic dual Akai AX80 to the WOPR-like FM flagship synthesizer Yamaha TX816 choosing a favorite for sure was not easy. It was nip and tuck till the very end of the race.

This summer we would like to offer a special sample pack giveaway for you. It will be taken from a classic synthesizer. But which one? You decide. Vote your favorite out of five unusual electronic instruments. SampleRobot will sample the Top 10 sounds of the winner for you. And here are the candidates.

Starting on the 16th of May Germany's capital will welcome all electronic music and synthesizer enthusiasts, developers and inventors for one of the most exciting music fairs. If you are around and would like to meet our SampleRobot dev team, have comments, questions or would just like to say hi, please feel free to reach out via our support address. We'll be happy to meet you.

A newly created FAQ section on our SampleRobot Support website might help you getting answers to your questions fast. You can find a lot of operation tips and inside information there as well. This section has become quite an extensive resource and it will be expanded in the future. It has been carefully edited from internal support documents that we assembled over the years.

We hope you had a good start in 2024. In the first week of January we received a huge and heavy package from a well-known company. Inside of it there was their new flagship synthesizer, an impressive 88 note hammer action instrument with lots of controls and synthesis and sample capabilities.

Whichever instrument you'll find under or next to the Christmas tree, might it be a vintage or a futuristic one, an acoustic or electric, small or large, we wish you a musical holiday time with lots of inspiration.

Merry Christmas to all of you!

The new Synclavier Regen is a very interesting electronic instrument that also offers multisample playback and modulation. Over the last months we have been in contact with one of its developers, Cameron Warner Jones, to make SampleRobot work seamlessly with the new Synclavier.

We are glad that quite a few users are sharing their expertises regarding SampleRobot on YouTube. A current video collection can be found on our support site now. There are several topics and languages available. If you are a content creator and your video is not yet part of our collection please reach out to us.

There is a new SampleRobot video release by AmbionicA. If you are thinking about selling a synth but you would like to keep the sounds here is how you do it. In the video a Yamaha TG33 vector synth gets cloned by SampleRobot. Can you hear a difference?;-) Find out how to use the final instrument in Ableton's Live.

In his new video author Stephen O'Connell shows what you can do with the automatic loop features in SampleRobot when it comes to building and optimizing your own sample-based instruments. Get an insight on his workflow from importing and looping in SampleRobot to exporting and auto-mapping in Kontakt.

For the cinematic short film Flow composer and director Christian Halten sampled a collection of special sounds and effects from Multiphonics CV-2 by Applied Acoustics Systems. The film takes us on a sonic journey out of noisy Berlin city to lost and also beautiful places in the outskirts.

We are glad that author Markus Galla from German Amazona online magazine created a valuable in-depth workshop on how to prepare and transfer custom sample sets for the Waldorf synthesizers Quantum and Iridium. Markus concludes: SampleRobot 6.6 is among the best tools when it comes to automated sampling.