Products

SampleRobot

With SampleRobot you can "clone" real musical instruments very easily and turn them into software instruments automatically. So you can play your favorite sounds via software samplers. SampleRobot is a big help to build your personal instruments for creative composing.

SampleRobot Essentials

SampleRobot Essentials offers a lot of professional auto-sampling features from its big brother SampleRobot at a reasonable price. The graphical interface is very easy to use. Beginners can achieve excellent results with just a few mouse clicks.

SampleRobot Essentials+WaveRobot

SampleRobot Essentials+WaveRobot is recommended for all users that would like to have all the extensive editing functions of WaveRobot in a reasonable priced version of SampleRobot.

WaveRobot

WaveRobot is the new stand-alone application for professional audio loop editing. WaveRobot finds optimum loop points in wave files automatically. A high speed graphic engine with full zoom functionality makes WaveRobot very comfortable software to work with.

Main Functionality

• Fully automatic sampling of MIDI sound devices that are connected to a Windows compatible MIDI and audio interface
• Semi-automatic sampling of sound sources that are not equipped with a MIDI interface
• Fully automated sampling of VST- and DirectX-instruments
• Streamlined and easy to use graphical interface
• Windows WDM support
• ASIO 2.1 support
• Preset manager: over 80 sampling presets for different instruments and situations included; user presets can be created easily
• Automatic output of velocity, after touch, MIDI controllers, program change to record all sound nuances
• Non-destructive graphical loop and marker editing with full zoom functionality (including overlapping the stereo left and right waveforms)
• MIDI monitor (SampleRobot only)
• Auto functions and user macros for recording format and length, editing, normalizing, fading samples
• Automatic creation of crossfade loops, backward-forward loops and combinations
• Auto arrangement and mapping of multi-samples and (SampleRobot only) release-samples including key maps with velocity splits and real time MIDI controller assignment
• Release-sample support (SampleRobot and WaveRobot only)
• Supported file formats: see below
• Sampling of Windows audio streams, played by other applications in the background
• Pitch information read and write (WAV files)

Sophisticated Functions

• Tuning oscillator
• Advanced loop-searching algorithms
• Different crossfade types to create inaudible loops
• Auto naming from an external ASCII file
• Batch multi-sample creation from an uncut audio file (e.g. useful to split sounds from sampling CDs)
• Batch sampling all sounds (whole bank) from a MIDI-instrument: automatic creation of multiple projects with program changes
• Batch normalize and gain functions for all samples in a project/multi-sample, auto normalize to maximum level in a project
• Optional sampling rate and bit rate conversion during export
• Scalable main window
• Crossfade rendering

WaveRobot

• Professional Auto-Loop recognition and loop editing for wave files (incl. loop search and pattern markers for optimum results)
• Alternative Auto-Loop search results are directly accessible
• Tempo-based and beat-based loop marker editing
• Automatic functions for truncating silence at the beginning and at the end of the waveform
• Comfortable editing: Fully scalable and zoomable editor window
• Ultra-fast waveform zooming and marker editing (even during playback)
• Graphical overlay of stereo left and right waveforms in realtime possible
• Autogain crossfades for optimum crossfade loops without volume-change during crossfade
• Supports crossfade loops, forward-backward loops and combinations
• Intelligent zero-crossing functions
• WAV drag & drop functionality
• Audio format: WAV up to 24 Bit, 192 kHz
• ASIO 2.1 and Windows WDM/MME compatible
• Crossfade rendering
• Loop/Crossfade/Release-Sample rendering
• Batch processing capabilities in conjunction with SampleRobot Version 2 and SampleRobot Essentials

System

• Compatible with Windows XP
• Compatible with Apple Mac Intel computers via Boot Camp as well as via Parallels Desktop for Mac software
• Supports all Windows and Apple Mac Intel plug & play MIDI and audio devices
• Stand-alone application
• Minimum computer configuration: Pentium 3, 667 MHz, 256 MB RAM / Apple Mac Intel

Formats

Audio Import

• Formats: WAV (single-sample, multi-sample), SRPrj, Preset
• WAV drag & drop functionality (also multiple files) to SampleRobot’s virtual keyboard including root-key recognition (optional extraction from file name or usage of root-key information) and importing loop points
• Automatic creation of velocity, after touch, MIDI controllers, program change to record all sound nuances
• Channels: optional 1 (mono) or 2 (stereo)
• Bit resolution: optional 8, 16 or 24 bits (depending on the used audio interface)
• Sampling rate: optional 11, 22, 44.1, 48, 96 or 192 kHz (depending on the used audio interface)
• All formats can be combined in one Project

Audio Export

• Formats: WAV (single-sample, multi-sample), SRPrj, Preset, various software sampler formats (see below)
• Format details: same as Import
• Cakewalk Dimension Pro (*.sfz)
• SoundFont2 (*.sf2)
• Steinberg HALion 3 (*.xml, clipboard copy & paste)
• Apple Logic Pro EXS 24 (*.sf2)
• Tascam Gigastudio (*.wav)
• Propellerhead Software Reason 3.0 NN-XT (*.sxt)
• Emu Emulator X, X2 (*.wav)
• Wusik.com Wusikstation (*.SND)
• Yellow Tools Independence (*.sf2)
• MOTU Machfive (*.wav)
• rgc:audio (*.sfz)
• Maz Sound Tools VSampler 3 (*.sf2)
• NI Kontakt (*.sf2)
• All multi-sample export formats including auto-mapping and multi-velocity layering
  
  MIDI Data

• Note on/off
• Velocity, release velocity
• After touch
• Pitch bend
• Program change
• All continuous controllers with MSB and LSB
  

  Other supported Formats

• ASCII-text (TXT), Import and Export
• SampleRobot Project (SRPrj), Preset

Most annoying Feature

• With special buttons you can change the way text is displayed in all SampleRobot displays. The option "A..." displays only the beginning of names, while "...B" shows only the ends. "A...B" displays beginnings and ends with dots in between and "ABCDE" displays the whole name compressed. Isn't that function clever? We do not think so!