SKYLIFE has announced that all SampleRobot and WaveRobot products are now available in version 3.01. New demo versions of all products can be downloaded at www.samplerobot.com.

SampleRobot 3 Essentials is a newly-available base version of SampleRobot. It has a reduced feature-set and is considerably cheaper than the full version. A feature comparison is available here.

SampleRobot 3 / SampleRobot 3 Essentials Main Functionality:

• Fully automatic sampling of MIDI sound devices.
• Semi-automatic sampling of acoustic instruments, voices and other sound sources.
• Fully automated sampling of VST- and DirectX-instruments.
• Streamlined and easy to use graphical interface.
• WaveRobot included (SampleRobot only, upgrade option for SampleRobot Essentials).
• Cakewalk Dimension LE software sampler for Windows XP and Mac OSX included (SampleRobot only).
• Over 400 factory programs spanning acoustic, electric, and synthesized instruments for Dimension LE included (SampleRobot only).
• Over 150 MB of guitar, bass, piano, percussion, and ethnic multi-samples for Dimension LE included (SampleRobot only).
• Clever Export Bridge for instant access to created instruments.
• More than 1080 MB (SampleRobot) / 800 MB (SampleRobot Essentials) premium multi-sampled content included.
• 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 MIDI velocity, after touch, controllers, program change to automatically record all sound nuances.
• Sampling of a complete sound bank with automated program change messages in one go (SampleRobot only).
• Automatic sample transient recognition (auto-note).
• Non-destructive graphical loop and marker editing with full zoom functionality (incl. 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.
• Advanced loop-searching algorithms.
• Different crossfade types to create inaudible loops.
• Auto arrangement and mapping of multi-samples and release-samples including key maps with velocity splits and real time MIDI controller assignment.
• Release-sample support (SampleRobot only).

Pricing & Availability

• SampleRobot 3: $419 / €309 / £219
• SampleRobot 3 Essentials: $159 / €119 / £89
• SampleRobot 3 Essentials + WaveRobot: $229 / €169 / £129
• WaveRobot 3: $109 / €79 / £59