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Selling Your Synth - Keeping Your Sounds

Selling Your Synth - Keeping Your Sounds
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 The Loop - Happy Holidays

In The Loop - Happy Holidays
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.

Lost Places - Berlin Cinematic

Lost Places - Berlin Cinematic
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.

Sampling Workshop

SampleRobot sampling workshop for Waldorf Quantum and Iridium users
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.

Snowfall Sample Set

Snowfall Sample Set
This time YouTuber and samplist Stephen O'Connell produced a sample library called 'Snowfall' with the help of SampleRobot. Stephen says 'I ended up creating a cool, little library that has this transfixing sound, like an icy breeze over a frozen lake. I just fell in love with it, deciding it needed to be shared in its own right.'

Hands-On Sampling

Hands-On Sampling
In his new video episode Espen 'I am the 80s!' Kraft demonstrates how he is using SampleRobot to create his new live rig with all the original sounds of his beloved 80s instruments. In the video he is sampling a famous DX piano from his Yamaha TX802 and exports it in Sequential Prophet X format.

The Box Sampling Project

The Box Sampling Project
We would like to share a story about a very special sampling project by one of our users. It all started when John Bunge reached out to us asking if SampleRobot could capture sounds from a unique instrument he built about 40 years ago. He called it 'The Box'.

Under The Christmas Tree

Under The Christmas Tree

Shortly after the release of SampleRobot 6.6 Pro we have good news for all other SampleRobot 6 users, too. SampleRobot Multi-X and SampleRobot Korg+Wave are now updated to version 6.6 as well.

Merry Christmas and our best wishes for the new year 2023.

SKYLIFE releases SampleRobot 6.6 Pro

SKYLIFE releases SampleRobot 6.6 Pro
SampleRobot is back with an update that includes support for the Waldorf synthesizers Quantum and Iridium both capable of loading custom sample content. SampleRobot 6.6 Pro can now create Waldorf ‘map’ files with dedicated samples making the sample handling on these instruments as easy as never before.

Soundbytes Magazine Review

Soundbytes Magazine Review
A new SampleRobot review was recently published by Soundbytes Magazine. We are very glad that author Rob Mitchell took a deep dive into the world of automatic sampling. He writes enthusiastically about the new features. "With this latest version Skylife has added new features to make SampleRobot Pro even more powerful and accessible to the new users"

Analog Synth Sampling - Venus Theory

Analog Synth Sampling - Venus Theory

In this cinematic sampling video composer and synthesist Venus Theory shows his workflow how to sample an fx-twisted analog synth with SampleRobot and turning it into a Decent Sampler instrument. The best thing is that he shares his collection called 'Isometra' on Pianobook for free. So check it out and make some music!

Superbooth 22 - SampleRobot 6.6

Superbooth 22 - SampleRobot 6.6
The Superbooth is again coming to Berlin as a real-life event on May, 12th till 14th, 2022. Like most electronic musicians we're pretty excited about it. We will release our SampleRobot 6.6 update at Superbooth 22 which will be of special interest for all Waldorf Quantum and Iridium users. If you would like to have a look and ltalk about SampleRobot just drop us a line and we'll meet.