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Can a vintage Yamaha TX816 synthesier live inside a contemporary Korg wavestate? We did the experiment and sampled the custom 8 layer stack sound 'Electric Stinger' from Yamaha's hefty 128 voices FM flagship which was released in 1984. In the wavestate you can have up to 4 times the TX816 stack playing at the same time.

It's always marvelous to hear what our users are doing with SampleRobot. Sometimes they even create a nice documentation where they record their sampling adventure to share their experience with others. Today we would like to highlight three of those videos that focus on different sampling use cases.

2025 is coming to an end and we wish you a magnificent Christmas and an exciting New Year 2026 with lots of musical adventures.
Thank you very much for your ongoing support and for your efforts in creating inspiring sampling instruments that keep the music going.

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.