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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.

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.'

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.

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'.

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.

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.

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"

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!

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.

Starting the new year 2022 we have something special for you: A fragile and expressive sound from the past that was introduced 40 years ago in 1982 by Vangelis in his score for Ridley Scott's Blade Runner.

We multisampled a living heavyweight Yamaha CS80 to bring you the original CS80 sound that is reminiscent of the opening credits from the legendary science fiction movie.