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 ...

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 ...

Packed with features, TX16Wx is one of those freeware tools that makes us wonder what on earth its creators were thinking when they offered it up free of charge. Modelled on Yamaha’s TX16W, the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Steinberg’s Halion is a full-featured software sampler for use with VST-compatible music applications (such as Steinberg’s Cubase family) that offers a number of unique features not found in samplers ...