W.Grabowski has announced the release of Samplelord v1.0, the recently announced sample player plug-in, and updated Extreme Sample Converter to v3.1.4 (adding Samplelord format compatibility plus some important fixes).

Samplelord features:

• Fast Engine and very low CPU usage.
• 8, 16, 24, 32-bit, 64-bit sample support at any samplerate.
• Supports Dimensions, Keyswitching, Cycle Ribbon, Cycle Random, Crossfading, Controller switching, Controller's crossfading.
• Uses special Dynamic Disk Streaming to load samples directly from disk.
• Fast & Direct Access to Formats like GIG, SF2, FXP, NKI, EX, WAV, AIFF it plays them directly from disk without any re-conversion and re-saving to HD.
• 16 Multi Track, 16 MIDI inputs freely configurable with custom routing.
• Multiple 16 Stereo Outputs with total control of all multi parts and custom routing.
• Built-in HD Browser with Drag & Drop functions.
• Complete MIDI integration with complete General MIDI Support.
• Virtual Keyboard with patch preview.
• Multiple instances and Low Memory usage each instance shares the same program resources. Each instance adds 512 voices which gives unlimited polyphony.
• IQ Sound Edit - one touch for controlling different sound parameters in real-time, filter, envelopes, LFO, pitch, tune, pitch-bend even x-fade for the looped samples.
• Independent Save, Load, Archive options. With archive you can backup your work and loaded samples.
• Quick start and ready to work in a one second.
• Different color themes.
• Simple and Logical user interface.
• Standalone version with ASIO support and free channel routings.
• Native Format: it's possible to save samples in its native format, thanks to this samples can be loaded, saved and re-saved extremely fast.

Samplelord is available in stand-alone and VST Instrument formats for Windows and costs €89.90. It can be purchased bundled with Extreme Sample Converter for €129.90. Owners of Extreme Sample Converter can cross-grade for €29.90. A demo version is available.