SampleRobot Cakewalk Special Edition & Review

New SampleRobot Animation

2007/08/18 A new SampleRobot animation is available online. CG artist Eric Mootz shows us the evolutionary history of SampleRobot - as an abridgement. Music and sound were created at SKYLIFE studio. Composer Christian Halten used only sampled-and-edited-by-SampleRobot sounds for the soundtrack of this animation. Some of the sounds derive from the SampleRobot Premium Samples: Game Sound Effects. The video file is about 2 MB in size, format is Windows Media Video. Have fun!

SampleRobot Version 2.50 released

2007/07/11 SampleRobot clones real musical instruments and turns them into software instruments automatically. With the new generation 2.50 of award-winning audio software SKYLIFE SampleRobot it is now even easier and faster to clone musical instruments. Amongst new functions like the Project Wizard the audio engine has been optimized. Furthermore SampleRobot now supports all common software samplers directly from the export menu. Last but least there are new high quality instrumental sounds in SoundFont2 format included.

Create individual sample libraries in a jiffy!

If you like to test the new possibilities of version 2.50 you should download the dedicated demo version 2.50. Even if you have already downloaded an earlier version it is highly recommended to download the newest version since the ease of use is highly increased by the Project Wizard.

SampleRobot Version 2.50 Demo [Upload 2007/07/10]
SampleRobot Version 2.50 Essentials + WaveRobot Demo [Upload 2007/07/10]
WaveRobot Version 2.50 Demo [Upload 2007/07/10]

Here you can order the full version downloads.

Version 2 users of SampleRobot, SampleRobot Essentials and WaveRobot can upgrade to version 2.50 free of charge.

Which new functions come with version 2.50?

For more information please read the SKYLIFE Press Information from July 11th, 2007.

Here you find a complete version history for all products:

SampleRobot_Version History 2.50 [TXT, Upload 2007/07/10]
SampleRobot Essentials Version History 2.50 [TXT, Upload 2007/07/10]
WaveRobot Version History 2.50 [TXT, Upload 2007/07/10]

New Tutorials Site

If you would like to know more about the practical aspects of SampleRobot and WaveRobot you will find helpful and easy to follow videos and practical examples on the new Tutorials site.

How to clone a Church Organ / SampleRobot Review

2007/04/22 Under the leadership of professor Hans-Joachim Haas from the Institute for Music and Media at the University of Music Duesseldorf a research team has set itself the ambitious target to authentically transfer a church organ into the digital domain as a software instrument. The virtual instrument clone shall be playable via software sampler. The recording sessions took place last Monday and Tuesday in the church St. Peter and Paul in Ratingen near Duesseldorf. The acoustic properties of the church are fantastic and the organ with the 2688 pipes with up to 5 meters in size creates an ideal voluminous sound field. Hi-tech highest quality equipment was used to capture all sound nuances of the direct sound as well as the room signal. Therefore Schoeps microphones were directly connected to two RME Micstasy racks including MADI interfaces to distribute the audio signals to several computers. The core for the recordings was SampleRobot. Interestingly St. Peter and Paul's church organ supports MIDI. So the complete recording process could be remote controlled via SampleRobot. All recordings were done fully automatically. Without MIDI the church organ could have been semi-automatically recorded with SampleRobot.

Here are some pictures from the recording session in Ratingen:

New SampleRobot Review

2007/04/22 You can read about SampleRobot V2.40 in the current issue 107 (April 2007) of Netherlands' music magazine Interface. Allard Krijger reviewed the latest version. He also had a closer look at the new features of WaveRobot. Here is a quotation from his summary: "The concept is ingenious and it also works in practice."

On the enclosed magazine-CD there are over 250 MB of high quality Multi-Samples in SoundFont2 format included, recorded from the famous synthesizer Waldorf Microwave XT. For the creation of this premium content SampleRobot was used exclusively.

Musikmesse Retrospection 

2007/04/21 At ESI Audiotechnik´s booth the SampleRobot demonstration station was always under siege. That must have been the good coffee that you could get there. For the first time you could see the packaged versions of SampleRobot V2.40, SampleRobot Essentials and WaveRobot. The worldwide shipping via ESI Audiotechnik has already started.

Here you can find some impressions from Musikmesse 2007:

If you speek German you should check out the Musotalk video and audio podcast recorded at Musikmesse 2007. There you can find out something about upcoming SampleRobot V2.5. Have fun!

New Demo Versions / Musikmesse

2007/03/21 New demo versions 2.41 of all SKYLIFE software products are now available. In the previous demo version 2.40 it could happen that the program was terminated shortly after program start because a file was missing in the installer package. This issue only occured with demo version 2.40 and it has been fixed in version 2.41.

Please download the new demo versions from here after login to the SKYLIFE ONLINE SHOP:
SKYLIFE SampleRobot V2.41 Demo
SKYLIFE SampleRobot Essentials + WaveRobot V2.41 Demo
SKYLIFE WaveRobot V2.41 Demo

Musikmesse 2007

Of course you are very welcome to see for yourself our high quality software products at Musikmesse 2007, Frankfurt Germany. You are invited to visit us from March 28th to 31st at our booth # B63 in hall 5.1. We are looking forward to seeing you there! You can even bring your instruments and we will start a live sampling session at our booth!

SampleRobot Product Brochure 2007

[SampleRobot Brochure 2007 Inside, PDF, 8.01 MB]
[SampleRobot Brochure 2007 Outside, PDF, 3.34 MB]

2007/03/21 Just in time for Musikmesse our new SampleRobot Product Brochure 2007 is now available. In advance you can have a look here online. See you at Musikmesse 2007 in Frankfurt, Germany!

Packaged Robots / Press News

2007/03/10 Packaged Robots are shipping

The complete SampleRobot product line is now shipping. Shortly the following retail boxes will be available at your local musical instruments and studio equipment dealer: 

SampleRobot Version 2.40
SampleRobot Essentials Version 2.40
WaveRobot

SampleRobot and WaveRobot offer unique functions to sample acoustic and electronic instruments fast and comfortably. So you can transfer real musical instruments very easily to the digital domain and then play them with any available software sampler. Worldwide shipping of the retail boxes is provided by ESI Audiotechnik GmbH.

Read more on this in the current SKYLIFE press information.

Press News

Furthermore there comes good news from Italy: Again SampleRobot and WaveRobot made it to the front cover of Italy's magazine Digital Music. In the main story "La Fabbrica dei Loop: The loop factory" you can read how easy it is to get perfect results with WaveRobot. Have a look at the SampleRobot review of Digital Music here (in Italian).

Here is a quotation from the review: "The program (SampleRobot) is an extremly innovative instrument, useful for all those who would like to establish themselves in the field of sound design, and also for those who would like to create a personal sound library by digitizing their whole instrument arsenal: synthesizers, workstations, expanders and virtual instruments." Many thanks to Maurizio Sirangelo and Guglielmo Mollo of Digital Music.

The SampleRobot review (V1.57) from Sound On Sound magazine is now accessible online. You can read John Walden's extensive review here online.

Here are some quotations:
"Sample Robot is a very clever application..."
"First, while you forgo some of the automatic elements of the process, the Sample Robot interface provides a well organised environment for multisampling real instruments, which is great for those who really do like a genuine DIY approach to sampling."
"Exporting Projects to HALion also proved very straightforward."
"Sampling an acoustic instrument is, of course, a somewhat more labour-intensive task, but Sample Robot does make this task a whole lot easier than it would be using a conventional audio recording and editing application. Finally, I was also impressed by the 'Import Single Sound Library' function."

Pros
+ Generally very easy to use.
+ Can save a huge amount of time when sampling from scratch.
+ Capable of excellent results.

Summary
"If you are a dedicated DIY sample creator, then SampleRobot might just change your life - it's a real 'Swiss Army knife' for creating sampled versions of hardware synths."

SampleRobot V2.40 Box in Production

2007/02/07 After very successfully presenting SampleRobot and WaveRobot at the NAMM Show new SampleRobot Box (Installer Version 2.40, containing WaveRobot) is to be released shortly. Not only the package is new. On the enclosed installation DVD there is over 1080 MB of high quality multi-sampled content taken from famous synthesizers in Soundfont2 format. So it is possible to recreate those legends with almost every software sampler. All sounds can be played 100% authentically without compromises. That is because SampleRobot was used to create identical virtual copies of the original sound machines in best sound resolution and dynamics. Furthermore new SampleRobot package contains a comprehensive, fully printed version 2.40 operation manual. With a lot of love for detail the author Holger Steinbrink describes all the fantastic possibilities of SampleRobot and WaveRobot from a practical point of view. It is fun to read the manual!

New SampleRobot Box is distributed by ESI Audiotechnik GmbH and the dedicated international distributors. If you are a dealer or distributor you can send an inquiry by contacting support "at" samplerobot.com.

Author Heiner Kruse from Austria's drum & bass magazine "resident" reviewed SampleRobot and WaveRobot. He sees SampleRobot as a "One-For-All sampling application" and as a "longterm professional solution" for all sampling purposes. If you speak German you can read the review here online.

Meet our Robots at the NAMM Show 2007

2007/01/05 Happy New Year! If you plan to visit the NAMM Show in Anaheim, Los Angeles [from 18th of January 2007 till 21st of January], please add the following booth number to your schedule: #6832 [ESI Audiotechnik]. You are very welcome to experience the latest version of SampleRobot and also brand new WaveRobot. Furthermore you have the chance to talk to the SKYLIFE developers directly. If you like bring your synths or other instruments that you would like to sample. We will start a live sampling session on our booth then, so that you can take the sampled instrument back home on your USB stick. See you at the NAMM Show 2007, booth #6832!

2007/01/06 No rise in prices for all SampleRobot and WaveRobot products
From the first of January 2007 on, in Germany sales tax has been increased from 16% to 19%. All prices for SampleRobot and WaveRobot products in the SKYLIFE ONLINE SHOP are not increased! We are glad to offer you attractive prices also in 2007. Additional product costs caused by the increase of sales tax in Germany are accepted by SKYLIFE because customer-oriented thinking is a basic part of our company philosophy.

2007/01/13 New SampleRobot tutorial in Wusikstation magazine January 2007

Wusikstation is a very interesting software-sampler/synthesizer. SampleRobot is able to feed Wusikstation directly with samples. In the new Wusik Sound Magazine there is a comprehensive SampleRobot tutorial which is now available on our website as well. Many thanks to WilliamK of wusik.com and Autodafe. If you are interested in Wusikstation please check out this special Group-Buy offer.

Here is a quotation from Autodafe's conclusion: "SampleRobot is a really revolutionary tool for the sound designers and the software-based sample-makers out there. It will certainly save hours of work needed to sample, loop and convert samples in different formats."

WaveRobot and SampleRobot V2.40 released

2006/12/19 SampleRobot V2.40 and WaveRobot are released!

SKYLIFE WaveRobot is the new stand-alone software solution for professional and comfortable audio loop editing. For the first time WaveRobot combines all sophisticated loop editing features from SampleRobot® in a single program. When editing audio it is not always easy to find smooth loop points in a sample. But now WaveRobot helps to speed up and simplify this process enormously.

Under the Headline “ADVANCED AUTO-LOOP PROCESSOR - Professional Loop Editing Audioware” WaveRobot includes many automatic functions to find very good loop results in wave files. A high speed graphic engine with full zoom functionality makes WaveRobot very comfortable software to work with. WaveRobot can be used independently or in conjunction with SampleRobot®, which adds batch functionality. Furthermore WaveRobot is equipped with interesting audio editing functions like automatic silence truncating and crossfade rendering. Due to the reasonable price WaveRobot can be recommended as a universal audio tool for loop editing. It should be part of every studio's basic configuration.

Follow this link to purchase WaveRobot online:
WaveRobot

Here you will find the current demo version:
WaveRobot Demo
(Please refer to the chapter WaveRobot in the SampleRobot Operation Manual for explanations.)

Special Deal on the Occasion of WaveRobot's Release

2006/12/01 New software SKYLIFE WaveRobot for professional and comfortable audio loop editing is going to be released in a few days as a stand-alone version. For the first time WaveRobot combines all sophisticated loop editing features from SampleRobot in a single program. It includes many automatic functions to find the perfect loop in an audio sample. Furthermore WaveRobot is equipped with interesting audio editing functions like automatic silence truncating and crossfade rendering. Due to the reasonable price WaveRobot can be recommended as a universal audio tool for loop editing. It should be part of every studio's basic configuration.

The release of WaveRobot will also bring good news for all SampleRobot users. New SampleRobot Version 2.40 includes for example special functions to edit loops tempo/beat-based.
Please read the current Version History for more details.

If you like to preliminarily test the new features of SampleRobot Version 2.40, you can download recently released SampleRobot Demo Version 2.30 by following this link.

On the Occasion of upcoming WaveRobot's release we will offer in a few days a very special deal.
For exactly 10 days there will be a 10% discount on following products from the SKYLIFE ONLINE SHOP:

SampleRobot Version 2.40
SampleRobot Essentials Version 2.40
Upgrades from SampleRobot V1.x to SampleRobot V2.40
Cross-grades from SampleRobot Essentials to SampleRobot V2.40
Cross-grades from WaveRobot to SampleRobot Essentials or SampleRobot Version 2.40

Here is a short overview on SKYLIFE WaveRobot's main features:

SampleRobot Version 2.25 and SampleRobot Essentials Version 2.25 released

2006/11/17 From now on all registered users of SampleRobot Version 2 and SampleRobot Essentials can download brand-new version 2.25, which is -of course- free of charge. This is a big update containing a lot of new professional sampling features, some of them can not be found anywhere else.

If you should not own neither SampleRobot nor SampleRobot Essentials you should wait a few days with your purchase. Please check this site again soon. Do not miss our special!

These are new features of SampleRobot V2.25 and SampleRobot Essentials V2.25:

• Auto-Loop for all
By using this function you can apply optimum loop settings intelligently from one sample to all other samples of a Multi-Sample or of a Project. This a batch operation for Auto-Loop processes.

• Auto-Note for all
This is a batch operation to truncate silence from all samples of a Multi-Sample or of a Project at the same time.

• Wusikstation SND Format Export
Users of the virtual instrument Wusikstation can now easily create content for the Wusikstation directly in SampleRobot and SampleRobot Essentials. Therefor the new Wusikstation export dialog was added. All sample mapping information will be transmitted automatically, so that you can play your SampleRobot instrument creation instantly with Wusikstation.

• Tool Tips
From now on function descriptions, tips and operation instructions can be displayed when moving the mouse pointer over buttons and other areas of SampleRobot's and SampleRobot Essentials' graphical user interface. This is a quick help function not only for beginners.

• Key-Samples Rearrangement
Now it is possible to move, copy and swap samples on the Virtual Keyboard of SampleRobot and SampleRobot Essentials simply with a drag&drop operation.

• Remove Audio after Loop-Out
This option has been added to all export format dialogs. It helps to keep samples' sizes small on your hard drive and also to save performance when loading Multi-Samples into your software sampler. When active, this function chops off all audio after the loop. This material would not be played anyway in most cases.

• WaveRobot Waveform Zoom
The maximum Y-axis waveform zoom has been increased by factor 20 allowing precise "microscopic" waveform edits.

• Selectable Skins
The appearance of SampleRobot's and SampleRobot Essentials' graphical user interface can now be modified by the user. At the moment there are 2 different skins available.

• Optimized ASIO support
New features have been added to SampleRobot's and SampleRobot Essentials' audio engine to extend the support for various audio interfaces.

• Render Loop only
This function is designed to export only the loops of samples (including crossfade rendering), for example to use them in Ableton's Live.

• Clean Selected Project / Clean selected Multi-Sample
With the help of this operation you can free disc space by erasing samples that are either not selected or that are located outside the keyboard range.

• Many more Improvements

SampleRobot Operation Manual V2.25

2006/10/25 Shortly before the release of SampleRobot Version 2.25 a new operation manual is online. Please download it from here:

SampleRobot Operation Manual V2.25 [English Version, PDF, 3.45 MB]
SampleRobot Bedienhandbuch V2.25 [German Version, PDF, 3.45 MB]

SampleRobot Presentation in Waldorf, Germany

2006/10/12 On the 15th of October Christian Halten, SKYLIFE managing director, will demonstrate the new SampleRobot version 2.25 features to the public for the first time. Meet the SampleRobot developers at audio-workshop´s open day in Waldorf, Germany. Interesting product presentations and workshops are part of the schedule. We are looking forward to see you in Waldorf near Cologne!

Good news from the internet: The internet portal homerecording.de has published an extensive experience report on SampleRobot. If you speak German you can read it online here. Here are some quotations:

"SampleRobot is completely unique. Everybody who does a lot of sampling should at least consider downloading the free demo version to assure oneself of the capabilities and of the steadiness."

"SampleRobot is equipped with intelligence: It finds loop points automatically resulting in smooth loop transitions."

"Don´t panic: SampleRobot operates really completely on its own. Only an electrical power outage can stop it."

Back on Deck / SampleRobot 2.25

2006/10/06 After a few days of web disconnection we are now back on deck again. Massive expansions of our web contents and new SampleRobot services made it necessary to change our internet provider. Good news for all SampleRobot and SampleRobot Essentials users: There will be the new version 2.25 available in a couple of days. As usual the update is free for all users of version 2.x. Please read the new SampleRobot_Version_History_V2_25 for a complete feature list.

Hollywood News

2006/09/19 In his studio in Santa Monica/Los Angeles Hollywood composer Henning Lohner uses SampleRobot and WaveRobot every day.

"For my work as a film composer SampleRobot enables me to do things that could not have been realized before. Having the opportunity to create multi-samples easily from any available instrument and to make it playable via MIDI is a fantastic innovation! Lately I sampled a mad out-of-tune toy piano for a horror movie at lightning speed. The exported sounds from SampleRobot are 100% accurate compared to the original instrument and finally I have the ability to arrange everything conveniently with my sequencer. You save your real instrument to your hard drive, so to say.  Since I use SampleRobot my own sound library is rapidly growing day by day. For the recently completed movie soundtrack "Firestorm" we recorded loads of vintage synthesizers with SampleRobot. So I could comfortably include them in the orchestration process. It is very important for my music that I can play all samples "virtuosoly". Since SampleRobot offers numerous automatic sampling functions and multi layer recording technics I would not like to miss it in my studio."

Amongst others Henning Lohner worked closely together with John Cage, Frank Zappa, Brian Eno, Iannis Xenakis and Karlheinz Stockhausen. Furthermore he is a long time composer in Hans Zimmer´s team. Henning Lohner composed a lot of expressive soundtracks, e.g. for "The Ring Two". Apart from that he works as author and director, e.g for the movie "Dennis Hopper: Create (or Die)". Further information about Henning Lohner´s work can be found in the Internet Movie Data Base.

SampleRobot Premium Samples Online Library

2006/08/22 SKYLIFE introduces the SampleRobot Premium Samples online library. Starting with Game Sound Effects created on famous synthesizers like Roland SH-101 and Hartmann Neuron the new SampleRobot Premium Samples series offers unique and extraordinary sample resources for musicians and sound designers. The library is continuously growing and will cover special interest sounds for music and media production. Due to the possiblities of SampleRobot the SampleRobot Premium Samples library includes all sound nuances and dynamics of the original instruments. And, all sounds are instantly playable via common software samplers. The library is worldwide accessible online. Please have a look at our SKYLIFE ONLINE SHOP, where you can find some demo samples from the Game Sound Effects series for free download.

SampleRobot and WaveRobot go MacIntel

2006/08/14 From now on SampleRobot and WaveRobot run on all Intel-based Apple Macintoshs. The user can decide if the programs shall be executed natively via Apple's Boot Camp software or via Parallels Desktop for Mac. Both alternatives were tested extensively by SKYLIFE. Now SampleRobot can be recommended as a reliable all-in-one sampling solution also for all Mac users.   

SampleRobot Version 2 Online Review

2006/08/14 Bjoern Morgenstern, author of Germany's online music magazin AMAZONA, put SampleRobot version 2 to the acid test. He certifies that SampleRobot and WaveRobot are big time and work savers with an excellent performance. Thank you very much! If you speak German you can read the review here online.

New Collaborations

2006/08/14 The Institute for Music and Media at the German University of Music Duesseldorf and SKYLIFE will collaborate on a research project about practical applications of SampleRobot. Studends of the institute will "clone" acoustic instruments via SampleRobot and turn them into software instruments. The duration of this research project will be about 6 months.

SampleRobot and WaveRobot are also in use at Germany´s film academy Baden-Wuerttemberg. The programs are essential tools for the postgraduate studies at the department of film music and sound design. Furthermore there are various worldwide SampleRobot co-operations, e.g. with the London College of Music and Media and the Noroff Institute in Norway.

Set the Benchmark

2006/07/09 In the current issue 08 of German KEYS magazine author André Estermann writes in the title story about "Powersampling". He reviews SampleRobot version 2 and other "auto-sampling" software products. Furthermore readers will find an easy to follow tutorial on how to clone instruments with SampleRobot 2. We recommend the current issue of KEYS magazine if you are interested in sampling and if you speak German.

We do not want to anticipate too much, but here is a short quotation: "In the new league of the intelligent power samplers SampleRobot still sets the benchmark."

New SampleRobot Product Brochure forthcoming

[SampleRobot Brochure 2006 Outside, PDF, 4.25 MB]
[SampleRobot Brochure 2006 Inside, PDF, 2.43 MB]

2006/06/01 New SampleRobot product brochure 2006 is now also available for download as PDF. Have a look at the outstanding features of SampleRobot, SampleRobot Essentials and WaveRobot!

SampleRobot Essentials Advantages

• High quality SampleRobot technology
• Best value for money
• Very easy to use
• WaveRobot integration as an option
• Cross-grade to SampleRobot possible at any time

Which additional features offers SampleRobot compared to SampleRobot Essentials?

• WaveRobot (available as an upgrade option for SampleRobot Essentials)
• 24 bit resolution (SampleRobot Essentials supports 16 bit resolution and up to 192 kHz sampling rates)
• MIDI monitor
• MIDI controller support
• Release-sample support
• Function "Create Projects from Soundnames" (sample whole synthesizer bank in one go)

SampleRobot Version 2 and SampleRobot Essentials now available

2006/04/24 The following products are currently available and can be purchased online via our associated SKYLIFE ONLINE SHOP:
SampleRobot Version 2
SampleRobot Essentials
SampleRobot Essentials + WaveRobot
Please read the product description of SampleRobot Essentials to find out more about the differences between SampleRobot and SampleRobot Essentials.

For all SampleRobot users there are comprehensive upgrade possibilities.

Furthermore you can find demo versions of the new products in the SKYLIFE ONLINE SHOP.

SampleRobot wins Innovation Award 2006 / Three new SKYLIFE Products

2006/02/24 We are glad that John Walden, author of the SampleRobot review in Sound On Sound magazine (issue 03/2006), likes SampleRobot so much.

Here are some quotations:
"Sample Robot is a very clever application..."
"First, while you forgo some of the automatic elements of the process, the Sample Robot interface provides a well organised environment for multisampling real instruments, which is great for those who really do like a genuine DIY approach to sampling."
"Exporting Projects to HALion also proved very straightforward."
"Sampling an acoustic instrument is, of course, a somewhat more labour-intensive task, but Sample Robot does make this task a whole lot easier than it would be using a conventional audio recording and editing application. Finally, I was also impressed by the 'Import Single Sound Library' function."

Pros
+ Generally very easy to use.
+ Can save a huge amount of time when sampling from scratch.
+ Capable of excellent results.

Summary
"If you are a dedicated DIY sample creator, then SampleRobot might just change your life - it's a real 'Swiss Army knife' for creating sampled versions of hardware synths."

You can read the article online after login to the Sound On Sound website here.

SampleRobot earns the Title "Winner of the review"

2006/02/17 Under the headline "Battle of the Sample-Robots" the author Christian Baum of Keyboards magazine (Issue 02/2006) sends out the software SKYLIFE SampleRobot, Redmatica AutoSampler and CDXtract Samplit to fight each other.

SampleRobot wins the battle and earns the title "Winner of the review"!

Here are some quotations about SampleRobot from the review:

"Still unrivaled are the Auto-Loop-Features."

"SampleRobot's functionality is nearly never restricted and it convinces with a practicable workflow."

"Sophisticated concept with almost all editing options, a good manual and the developers' open ears let almost forget about that unfortunately this software is only available for PCs. Apart from that I would like to declare SampleRobot with a clear conscience as the winner of the review. It is the most flexible and comprehensive candidate in the battle of the Sample-Robots."

Advantages:

+ numerous useful functions
+ good export features
+ good operation manual

SKYLIFE SampleRobot Box is shipping worldwide

2006/02/02 After a very successful presentation at The NAMM Show we are glad to announce that SKYLIFE SampleRobot Box is now shipping wordwide. Here you will find a current pack shot. This packaged version of SampleRobot is internationally distributed by ESI (Ego Systems Inc.). Included on the SampleRobot installation CD there are the newest version of SampleRobot, all manuals and tutorials and furthermore over 650 MB directly playable clones of legendary synthesizers. A printed comprehensive operation manual in English and German completes the box.

The MSRPs for the SKYLIFE SampleRobot Box:
EU: 299 EUR (incl. VAT)
UK: 199 GBP (incl. VAT)
US and World: 299 USD (plus VAT)

The download version of SampleRobot can be purchased online immediately via the SKYLIFE ONLINE SHOP.

If you did not have the chance to visit us at The NAMM Show you can start an interactive Flash demonstration now online to find out more about the concept and benefits of SampleRobot. Please use the next button in the movie to control the playback.

SampleRobot at The NAMM Show in Anaheim/Los Angeles

2006/01/02 Happy New Year!
Everything you always wanted to know about SampleRobot but were afraid to ask: We are glad to invite you to join the SampleRobot developer-team at The NAMM Show in Anaheim/Los Angeles from January 19th to 22nd. Meet us at the ESI booth #6830!

Classic electronic Instruments Giveaways

2005/12/07 Are you still searching for the right Christmas present (for yourself)? Then this is possibly your chance. SKYLIFE gives away original sounds of the following classic synthesizers in digital form to all registered users of SampleRobot:

Akai VX600
Hartmann Neuron
Korg MS-20
Korg Sigma
Oberheim Xpander
Roland Jupiter-8
Sequential Circuits Prophet-5
Sequential Circuits ProphetVS
Waldorf MicrowaveXT
Yamaha CS01

You should not miss over 650 MB in total directly playable premium instruments in SoundFont2 format.
For downloading this way please.

SampleRobot Version 1.53 Update

2005/11/25 New SampleRobot version 1.53 is ready for download now. New features include enhanced ASIO functions and versatile sample conversion options for the export. Furthermore the Preset Manager has been optimized with very helpful features. Here you can find a detailed documentation of this update.

SampleRobot Version 1.5 Download Available

2005/10/23 After an extensive beta-test process SampleRobot Version 1.5 is now available as a free download for all registered users in the Support + Downloads area. The SKYLIFE team would like to thank all international users for the enormous feedback. Have fun with the new features!

If you like to try version 1.5 before buying you have the ability to download new SampleRobot Demo version 1.5 in the SKYLIFE ONLINE SHOP for free. It is worth doing it!

To purchase SampleRobot version 1.5 just follow this link to the SKYLIFE shop.

SampleRobot Version 1.5

2005/10/10 Not only registered users have a reason for delight: It's only a few days till SampleRobot's version 1.5 official release. This update offers many new functions and improvements. The best thing: It is free for all registered users. Here are some feature highlights:

ASIO 2.1 support - Now you can use high quality ASIO drivers with SampleRobot to record and playback sounds at the best quality. This allows you to sample with up to 192 kHz and 24 bits depending on the audio hardware. All bit- and rate-formats in mono and stereo and also different audio-drivers can be mixed in one project offering vast flexibility.

Sampling of virtual instruments - With version 1.5 you can sample virtual instruments running on the same computer at the same time. Therefor SampleRobot sends out MIDI-data via a virtual MIDI-cable and records the audio stream that is played by the virtual instrument. It was never easier to sample virtual instruments!

Reason NN-XT export - At the request of many users SampleRobot now supports Reason's software sampler NN-XT. Just create your Projects and export them automatically mapped directly as NN-XT format. Projects that are created with a previous version of SampleRobot can now be loaded and exported easily to Reason's NN-XT, too.

Preset manager - With new release version 1.50 there will be several sampling-presets for different instruments which can be loaded into SampleRobot. This helps to start quickly without having to know SampleRobot in detail. E.g.: Just load the preset "Piano" and click on "Rec" to sample your piano automatically. This is really easy. Of course you can create your own presets.

Wave drag and drop fuctionality - Just drag one or more wave-files onto SampleRobot’s virtual keyboard. The samples will be imported and mapped automatically. SampleRobot can read the root-key information or extract the key from the filename.  If desired loop points are also imported.

Scalable main window - If you were running SampleRobot on high screen resolutions (like 1600x1200) it was not really comfortable to work with it. This has changed in the new version, since the window can be fully scaled now. You will keep the overlook.

Crossfade optimizations - We optimized the crossfade-functions in SampleRobot and added some new fade types. This section is substantially improved. The quality of the fades has been meliorated to create “non-audible” fades. Even with complicated loops now you can get very good results.

MIDI optimizations - SampleRobot's MIDI engine is optimized in version 1.5 causing faster communication. This helps to avoid MIDI buffer overflows in older MIDI sound generators.

SampleRobot in the Press

2005/09/14 Now you can read the current SampleRobot review "ZEITMASCHINE FUER SOUND-DESIGNER" by André Estermann of German KEYS magazine online. Many thanks to André Estermann and the KEYS editorial stuff for making this review available online. Here are some short quotations from the resume:

"SampleRobot is a tool that studio professionals who often create Multi-Samples cannot get around."
"The time saving while creating complex Multi-Samples with several layers is really gigantic."
SampleRobot in practise, review KEYS: ZEITMASCHINE FUER SOUNDDESIGNER (in German)

In the current issue 10/2005 of Germany's Beat magazine you can read more about SampleRobot in a review by Stefan Molz. Here are two quotations:

"It is really impressive how many workitems are combined in this software."
"The price of the product is more than suitable."
Stefan Molz rates SampleRobot with 5 out of 6.

Armin Kuester did a background interview about SampleRobot for the German PC & Musik magazin. You can read this interview online here:

Interview SampleRobot: PC & Musik (in German)

Last but not least there is an euphoric SampleRobot review, written by Dinos Vallianatos, in the September issue of Greece's Soundmaker magazine.

We would like to thank all reviewers and publishers for their enthusiasm about SampleRobot.

Oberheim Xpander Multi-Sample Demo free Download

2005/09/02 Now you can find out yourself about the quality of SampleRobot's automatic multi-sampling engine. A monophonic sound from vintage classic Xpander synthesizer was sampled by SampleRobot. If you play this multi-sample with a software sampler polyphonically you will get an impression how good the Xpander sounds. SampleRobot captured all sound nuances and even the dynamics in the articulation. Load the following SF2-file into your software sampler and play the "Original":

Oberheim Xpander Dynamite SF2 [RAR, 18.03 MB, Upload 2005/09/02]

For all SampleRobot users (including demo version) here is a download link to the original SampleRobot Project with all single samples of the Oberheim Xpander available for testing. After program start please load the Xpander-Project and set the Project path in SampleRobot's "Project Settings" to the location of the samples on your hard disc. 

Oberheim Xpander Dynamite Waves and SRprj [RAR, 25.54 MB, Upload 2005/09/02]

New SampleRobot Reviews published

2005/08/22 Once again SampleRobot has got fantastic ratings from press reviewers. Scot Solida from UK's Computer Music writes in the current issue SEPTEMBER 05 about SampleRobot: "SampleRobot is like the second engineer you always wished you had. We've seen other programs that work along similar lines, but none of them are as complete as this one."; "Using SampleRobot is, for the most part, a breeze."; "We captured a wicked bass sound from our trusty Moog Rogue synthesizer with no problems. It's also useful for recording instruments such as drums, guitars or just about any other acoustic source. Very useful indeed!"

Scot Solida rates SampleRobot with 8 out of 10.

In the current issue 05/2005 of PC & Musik SampleRobot is also receiving best ratings by reviewer Armin Kuester. He writes: "SampleRobot marks a quantum leap for the management of sampled audio material. Before SampleRobot it was not possible to transfer electronic and acoustic instruments into the digital domain and to create extensive sample libraries in such a short amount of time."

Free SampleRobot Update to Version 1.32 available & Audio Examples from Italy

2005/08/10 Shortly after the release of SampleRobot Demo version now all registered users of SampleRobot can enjoy the new and improved features of SampleRobot version 1.32. Among optimizations there are also new professionell normalize- and gain-functions included in the Edit menu. Now you can manage complex Multi-Sample level adjustments with ease. All Samples in a project can be edited at the same time. This link guides you to the SampleRobot update.

2005/08/10 Do you want to know how a Yamaha grand piano G2F sounds as a software instrument sampled semi-automatically by SampleRobot? Then check out these audio examples:

DM_Piano_Jazzdemo [MP3, 320 kbps, 2.57 MB]

DM_Piano_Solodemo [MP3, 320 kbps, 2.55 MB]

The grand piano has been sampled chromatically in 4 velocities. Many thanks to Guglielmo Mollo who is responsible for this fabulous work. Readers of the Italian magazine Digital Music can look forward to the next issue. The virtual grand piano will be included on the magazine's CD for free! Also many thanks to Maurizio Sirangelo of Digital Music in Italy.

SampleRobot Demo Version 1.32 available as free Download & New Flash-Tutorial uploaded

2005/07/08 Everybody is invited. For the first time you can download a free Demo version of SampleRobot in the SKYLIFE-Shop. Please choose "Add to Cart", then "Checkout" and create a new customer account. Please follow the instructions on the site. You will receive your download-link to SampleRobot Demo version 1.32 immediately. To download SampleRobot Demo free of charge click here.

2005/07/11 The new Getting Startet Tutorial is an interactive step by step guide for new users of SampleRobot. If you do not have the time to read manuals here is the perfect way to get started. The Tutorial is available here [ZIP,3.55 MB].

SampleRobot Reviews

2005/06/29 The first German reviews of SampleRobot have been published and we are glad to receive such positive feedback.

A very detailed review from the German online magazine Amazona by Bjoern Morgenstern can be found here.

Read more about SampleRobot in KEYS magazine review by André Estermann starting on page 30 in the August issue. On the dedicated KEYS CD there are also some playable SampleRobot-instruments included with multi-samples of Akai VX600, Oberheim Xpander, Roland Jupiter-8, Roland System 100 and Sequential Circuits Prophet-5 in SoundFont2 format.

In issue 08.05 of KEYBOARDS magazine SampleRobot was reviewed by Bjoern Bojahr (see page 34).

English Preliminary Operation Manual and Online Registration

2005/06/03 From now on you can register and automatically receive your Response-Code in the new User-Support-Area. Follow this link for Login.

A new complete English Preliminary Manual can be found here [ZIP, 3.10 MB].

SampleRobot Version 1.1 is available as a free Update

2005/05/16 Just a few weeks after the release of SampleRobot the new version 1.1 is now available for download featuring advanced semi-automatic recording and many improvements in detail. Please visit our Support + Downloads page.

SampleRobot attracted a lot of international Interest at the Musikmesse

2005/03/14 We are glad that the presentation of SampleRobot at the Musikmesse Frankfurt created a lot of positive feedback. The software received a huge acceptance by international visitors.

If you haven't had the chance to see us at the Musikmesse you will find a short video presentation of SampleRobot on this site in the near future. Furthermore you can download the product brochure as a PDF from the Press Service site.

A new feature can be found in the release version of SampleRobot. A new and universal loop-finder now sets optimal loop points while recording automatically. Of course the user can search for alternative loop points for each sample. The acoustic results are excellent. Audio examples will be available soon.

Another brand new feature in SampleRobot is the freely zoomable waveform window, where editing is comfortable, fast and effective. Automatic functions can be combined with manual editing to get best results. Sampling was never easier!

SampleRobot at Musikmesse 2005 in Frankfurt am Main

If you like to find out more about the brand new audio software SampleRobot you have the ability to see it from the 6th of April till the 9th at the Musikmesse Frankfurt. You are very welcome to visit us in hall 5.1 at booth C47 (RIDI MULTIMEDIA / ESI). We are looking forward to see you in Frankfurt!