SKYLIFE has announced the upcoming release of the SampleRobot 4 Sampling Suite.

With the Sampling Suite everybody who is into sampling will get a complete software package to master all sampling challenges elegantly and fast. Therefore the Sampling Suite offers a comprehensive and sophisticated set of tools for instrument mapping and export, auto sampling, MIDI remote control, format conversion, batch and auto-loop processing, sample playback and synthesis.

SampleRobot 4 Sampling Suite contains the following products:

• SampleRobot 4.
• WaveRobot 4.
• Camel Audio Alchemy Player 1.2.
• Awave Studio 10.4.
• More than 1 GB of premium samples in Soundfont 2 file format.

With the Sampling Suite the user can do automatic sampling of acoustic and electronic instruments, remote control MIDI gear and sample sound nuances automatically. Integrated WaveRobot software helps find perfect loop points even for whole multi-samples with different velocity layers during recording.

Import older sampler formats like Ensoniq, Kurzweil, Roland and Yamaha or even use original AKAI S1000 series CDs with Awave Studio and export them with SampleRobot to various software sampler formats. Or send new multi-samples back to older hardware.

SampleRobot 4 Sampling Suite comes with new export options like "Export all Projects at once" and "Export to Waldorf Blofeld". SampleRobot and WaveRobot are optimized for Windows 7 and offer better Win7 performance than previous versions.

Key features of SampleRobot 4 Sampling Suite:

• Turn acoustic and electronic instruments, voices and noises into virtual instruments.
• Fully automated sampling.
• Intuitive project assistant.
• Sophisticated auto-loop processing and editing.
• Alchemy Export Bridge.
• Sampling of virtual instruments.
• Direct sample playback on Mac and PC, edit effects, modulation and envelopes.
• Convert about 290 audio and multi-sample formats.
• Import formats like AKAI S1000, MPC, Kurzweil K2xxx, Roland S, Ensoniq and MIDI Sample Dump.
• Extract samples from sampling CDs.
• Audio batch processing, auto-loop for all, resampling, normalizing, gaining, fading.
• Export samples directly to Steinberg HALion 4, Logic Pro EXS24, NI.
• Kontakt 4, Reason NN-XT, Waldorf Blofeld, Soundfont2 and many others.
• Import and export for Yamaha Tyros 2+3, Motif XS+XF.
• Full MIDI remote control, incl. program and bank changes, multi-velocity layering.
• Release-Sample editing.
• Optimum loop handling incl. forward-backward loop with 2 independent crossfades and auto-gain functionality.
• Sample and export whole synthesizer sound bank in one go (equipment copier).
• Premium multi-samples from classic synthesizers included.

SampleRobot 4 Sampling Suite works with Windows XP / Vista / 7 and also under Bootcamp and Parallels Desktop for Mac on Intel Macintosh Computers. Camel Audio Alchemy Player works with Windows XP / Vista / 7 and Mac OS X 10.5 or higher.

Availability: August 2011.

Price: SampleRobot 4 Sampling Suite: $399 / €299 / £259.