The long awaited successor to Logic Pro X’s EXS24 software sampler is here with full backwards compatibility, a suite of new toys pulled from Alchemy, a much needed makeover, and some particularly ...

Native Instruments has launched the next edition of Komplete, its colossal bundle of instruments, sounds and effects, along with a new version of the beloved software sampler Kontakt. Komplete 15 ...

PLUGIN WEEK 2025: The quest to emulate acoustic instruments reached a tipping point in 1979 with the release of the legendary (and legendarily expensive) Fairlight CMI, the world's first commercially ...

Hardware sampling is officially back. As the power of music software rapidly advanced throughout the ‘00s and ‘10s, hardware samplers began to fall out of fashion as producers favoured the flexibility ...

Apple has completely overhauled Logic Pro X’s sampling technology with the new Sampler and Quick Sampler. While those two might be running the audio recycling operation here, the powerful new Logic ...

This week we'll look at what's been going on recently with LinuxSampler, a very cool software audio sampler. I have to say at the outset that this article was tough to write, I was just having far too ...

Tech "It's the most influential drum machine ever created – and has likely featured on more records than any other": A history of Roland drum machines, from the TR-77 to the TR-1000 Drum Machines In ...