W.Grabowski has updated Samplelord to v1.5 and announced that several new versions - Samplelord Dev, Samplelord x64 for 64-bit Windows systems and Samplelord Leo for Mac OS X - are under development.

Two new Samplelord's sub-versions have also been released for V-Machine users: Samplelord Le is free and Samplelord VM costs €40. Both versions work with the V-Machine hardware plug-in player only.

Changes in v1.5:

• MANUAL: Updated and new manuals in PDF Format.
• MEMORY: /3GB switch support added. Allows to use more >2GB RAM memory per instance.
• MEMORY: Memory Sample Management and Memory overload protection added.
• ENGINE: New Voice Allocation method.
• GUI: Audio Level Meter added.
• EXPORT: Multi Bundle Format added, replaces previous archive of multi and improves way of exporting of all multi setup.
• GUI: Hide GUI button added.
• DISK STREAMING: File Precaching added.
• IMPORT: Advanced Import Options... added, allows to tweak and optimize patch load if needed.
• GM: Automatic Bank Load added, it replaces previous 'Auto load General MIDI banks' option.
• GUI: CPU/HD Meter added.
• EXPORT: Export Single Instrument added.
• DISK STREAMING: Patch Streaming added.
• PLAYING: NoteOff Trigger Level options added.
• GUI: Color Themes added.
• MULTI: Auto Search... button added in Missing Files dialog.
• MULTI: Midi Filter added.
• USE: Instrument Reset to Clear Channel. It clears all channel settings to its default values without removing instrument.
• USE: Unload Instrument removes also a links to this instrument.
• LICENSE: Added automatic license search.
• ENGINE: Added automatic voice releasing when audio signal goes silent.
• ENGINE: Fixed bug in voice kill method and elimination dropouts when file is releasing.
• DISK STREAMING: Changed default size of Buffer Streaming to 64KB.
• FILE: Fixed file overwrite while Bank or Instrument Export, when instrument is (re)saved within the same file.
• INFO: Added more exact message error info when patch or sample could not be found and there was not enough memory to load all sample content.
• MEMORY: Fixed crash with memory overload.
• MEMORY: Fixed possible memory leaks in disk streaming.
• IMPORT: Improved auto-search in Halion import.
• IMPORT: Fixed crash with EmulatorX files.
• EXPORT: Fixed problem in wrong sample link save when a bank was exported and contains free not used samples.
• COLLECTION: Improved collections Bank Numbers values greater than 128 can be used.
• COLLECTION: Improved files with absolute paths were not found when they were located in the same folder as collection file.
• COLLECTION: Fixed files which were not found were not added to the list now they are marked with ERR in the name.
• INSTALLER: Improved installations, standalone version installs into its own folder, VSTi destination folder selection and automatic license installation.