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george · Post by **george** » Mon Jan 27, 2014 12:25 pm

HighLife 1.2.3 has been released.

HighLife is a Mac / Windows / Linux sampler with editor, five built in effects, flexible modulation, parameter morphing and highest offline resampling quality using 512 point SINC. 64-bit Audio Units and VST are supported.

What's new

Reworked wave editor view:
- Scrollbar.
- Mouse wheel scroll and zoom in/out with control key+wheel.
- Zoom out limited to wave length.
- Selection active if > 2px. Full wave acts as selected when no selection is
- active.
- Enhanced waveform visualization at higher zoom levels.
Import/Export Sample/Program dialog opens at active sample Zone/Program path, falling back to last location when not available (default starts at user's Documents folder)
Automatically enabled Edit menu items.
Morphing opacity support to FX sends.

HighLife 1.2.3 costs 49 EUR. All platform installers are delivered on a single download after purchase.
More information at HighLife page.

bob bobwood · Post by **bob bobwood** » Mon Jan 27, 2014 7:48 pm

Well, I am an occasional user of the older HighLife which appears to be the one pictured - with the ability to load a VST. It was particularly useful for loading the odd VSTi that would only load as effects in FLStudio ! Is this feature going to be re-instated or is it gone for good ?
Regardless of the outcome, I will have a good look at this version anyway.

george · Post by **george** » Mon Jan 27, 2014 7:52 pm

Yes, VST hosting / sampling should be available on release 1.3. Thumbnail has been updated by the way, thanks for pointing up.

bob bobwood · Post by **bob bobwood** » Mon Jan 27, 2014 8:27 pm

Okey dokey, thanks for the info.

george · Post by **george** » Mon Jan 27, 2014 8:58 pm

You're welcome

There are other important things to do right now before VST hosting (better workflow, file management, wave editing, etc.). I hope we can get enough support from the people and make it happen.

ShawnG · Post by **ShawnG** » Tue Jan 28, 2014 2:39 am

wasn't this sampler freeware at one point? a little confused, maybe another product?

Aloysius · Post by **Aloysius** » Tue Jan 28, 2014 2:42 am

ShawnG wrote:wasn't this sampler freeware at one point? a little confused, maybe another product?

I purchased the original.
Then I think it became freeware.
Then that version became EOL (end of line).
I've since purchased the newer version you see on display here.

It's a bit confusing for sure.

BTW: I only see HighLife 1.2.2 in my account.

ShawnG · Post by **ShawnG** » Tue Jan 28, 2014 3:04 am

ok, thanks, I downloaded it when it was free, don't think I ever used it, but had some designs on using it to convert some softsynths to samples at some point... the new version doesn't do the auto sampling of VST's anymore, apparently. good luck with the new version, just curious, because I know I have it in my old 32 bit plugin folder.

garreevans · Post by **garreevans** » Tue Jan 28, 2014 3:14 am

used it once it's alot to mess with when it comes to sound

george · Post by **george** » Tue Jan 28, 2014 10:24 am

Aloysius wrote:BTW: I only see HighLife 1.2.2 in my account.

1.2.3 update was ready yesterday, but link has been updated today.

Aloysius · Post by **Aloysius** » Tue Jan 28, 2014 2:29 pm

Thanks George

syntheticillusion · Post by **syntheticillusion** » Tue Jan 28, 2014 2:57 pm

HighLife was free a few months ago then they updated it so it became a commercial software, if you still want the freeware version you have to search the net, maybe www.vst4all.com might have it but i remember when they had discounted it, i was mad cause i wanted it even though i didn't know what it did, i watched this crappy tutorial that showed you can sample vst's and export the samples as a SFZ so i started using it a couple of months back before they made it a payware again, it has seen a few price changes in the last year and so did THRILLME which use to be 20 euros not it's 49 euros, i think it's strange when they change something, i got phantom a year ago and it does not import tx81z presets but if you download some online and import them you can have a similar sound, but it's supported for dx21 presets, either that or my tx81z syx i took from my 2 tx81z's are corrupt.

Robmobius · Post by **Robmobius** » Tue Jan 28, 2014 3:29 pm

George wrote: I hope we can get enough support from the people and make it happen.

I was looking at HL - Seems to have great potential. I don't mind paying for it, as I'd like a quick working sampler a kin to Logics. I use the Motu for bigger jobs.

Sadly, I won't be buying it. This statement scares me a little... Not much point in shelling out, if it's not going to be updated until you get the support.

Hope it works out.

aMUSEd · Post by **aMUSEd** » Tue Jan 28, 2014 3:35 pm

So can this actually sample the audio stream or just plugins loaded into it? Is there a limit on length of sample recording, does it have drag and drop into the host of sampled audio?

alvfaria · Post by **alvfaria** » Tue Jan 28, 2014 5:58 pm

There will be SF2 support for the PC version?

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