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A Superior Sampling Workflow

One Mac app for serious producers, from the record to the sampler.

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For Apple silicon Macs, macOS 11 or later.

The Samplewright edit surface, showing a sample waveform with editing controls.
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47
Years of hardware
From 1979 to 2026.
20
Manufacturers
Akai, E-mu, Elektron, Roland, Teenage Engineering and more.
134
Samplers and drum machines
Every one listed, with its own workflow.

Thousands of workflows

3 sources × 8 step combinations × 138 destinations: 3,312 in all.

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Never lose the vibe. Keep sampling straight into the machine.

Vinyl into the sampler is how it’s always been done, and for good reason: every machine gives the sound its own character, on the way in and out of the device. Samplewright perfectly preserves that workflow and enhances it, then opens up every other route your sound could take: through your plug-ins, back out of the machine, or purely digital.

However you already sample, it fits around it. A few of the ways:

The Sample ▸ Rip screen, for recording from a turntable.
Sample ▸ Rip: the whole side, kept

One source, two destinations: from a mixer or preamp with two outputs, the record feeds the sampler and the interface at once. The machine samples it; Samplewright keeps its own take.

Purists lose nothing. Everything you catch is yours to keep, and to send back to any machine as files, kits or audio.

Your inputs are part of the sound.

So Samplewright never asks you to go around them. Every route through your rig keeps something different, and every one of them is yours to take.

  1. RecordMixerSampler

    Straight in

    Keeps The machine’s input stage, its converters and the way you drive the gain. Samplewright records the record itself, from a second output on your mixer, before the machine.

  2. LibraryInterfaceSampler inputs

    Played into the inputs

    Keeps The colour of the machine’s inputs, on any sound in your library, at the level you set.

  3. LibraryCardSampler

    Files to the card

    Keeps The machine’s playback, filters and outputs, on a file written to its own rules. Loading can skip the input stage, so nothing is added on the way in.

  4. SamplerInterfaceLibrary

    Captured back

    Keeps What the machine does on playback: its filters, its pitch, its timing. Printed, and kept beside the original.

There are no wrong routes. Only the ones that sound right to you.

Your presets, your routines, recallable forever.

Every way a sound can travel through your rig, out to your machines and back again, saved as presets and workflow maps you can repeat. Perfect a routine, switch between them in a click, and never set up the same session twice. Put your own samplers in and see yours.

Your samplers

Interface outputs

Sampling from

Your MPC60, 1988

Storage
Floppy disk
Everything about the MPC60

Saved preset

Vinyl into the MPC60

The record goes straight into the MPC60, exactly as always. Samplewright takes a split of the same signal and keeps its own take.

Source
The record, straight into the MPC60
Split
The same signal into inputs 1–2, from a second output or a splitter
Monitor
Direct
Record
Up to 192 kHz, kept in the library
Machine
MPC60: samples at 40 kHz, 12-bit

Recall it in one click. Nothing to set up again.

Before the machine. Before the DAW.

Samplewright is purpose-built for what happens to a sound before it reaches your sampler or your DAW: capturing it, keeping it, shaping it and preparing it, however you sample. It arrives ready, and they get on with what they do best.

DAWless, DAW, or both.

Samplewright is made to complement both. It isn’t a DAW and doesn’t replace one, and it doesn’t need one either. It does the sample work (finding, recording, chopping, processing and naming) and hands finished sounds and kits to your machines, your DAW, or each in turn.

Wherever the track gets finished, on a machine or in a DAW, its sounds get made in Samplewright.

Nothing decides for you.

Samplewright does the carrying, never the choosing. Your ears, your hands and your machine make the calls, the way they always have.

Every step, in one place.

  1. Import

    Point it at the folders you already have. Nothing is copied, moved or renamed.

  2. Find

    Text, tag chips, a BPM range, a key. Sort by anything.

  3. Audition

    Hear it in place, through the mix if you want, without loading it anywhere.

  4. Shape

    Trim, loop, chop into named slices, layer and phase-align. The source file is never touched.

  5. Process

    Inserts, sends and parallel buses from your own AU and VST3 plug-ins, rendered with delay compensation.

  6. Export

    New files, or a kit, written to the rules of the sampler you chose.

The Samplewright edit surface, showing a sample waveform with editing controls.
The Samplewright library table filtered to a Drums / Kicks tag, with BPM and key filter pills above it: six kick samples listed with duration, sample rate, channels, bit depth, key, BPM, note and tags.
Chop view: a waveform with slice markers above sixteen pads, bank selection and a basket for collecting slices.
Five mixer channel strips — Primary, Parallel Comp, Reverb Send, Delay Send and Master — each with plug-in inserts, sends, pan, a fader and a level meter.
The Sample ▸ Rip screen, for recording from a turntable.
The Samplewright mixer: five channel strips with plug-in inserts, sends, pan controls, faders and level meters, beside a browser of installed plug-ins.
The export dialog, showing output format and destination options.

Built for the samplers you actually own.

Every machine’s real rules are baked in: sample rate forced, mono summed properly, DOS 8.3 names when the box demands them. And a machine that only reads its own disks still gets your sounds, sampled straight into its inputs.

80 machines

Sampled through its inputs

Samplewright doesn’t stop at files. It optimises each sound for the machine and routes it out of your audio interface into the sampler’s inputs, and the machine samples it the traditional way, through its own converters, with all of their character.

A Roland SP-404 sampler lit in blue, its pads and screen glowing.
Roland SP-404
An Elektron Digitakt at an angle on a grey surface, its orange display showing an untitled project.
Elektron Digitakt
Two pad samplers side by side on a wooden desk in low afternoon sun.
Find your sampler, and your rig’s workflow

Kits for SFZ, DecentSampler, MPC2000 kit and more come from the slice basket.

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Legacy media

Back it up before the floppy dies.

75 of the 134 machines we work with keep their sounds on floppy disks, and 48 on SCSI. Samplewright brings all of it into one library, backed up and searchable, while the disks still read.

What you’ll need for each kind of disk

Hands flipping through a crate of records in a shop.

The crates

Every folder you ever dragged home, in one searchable library.

Samplewright reads your sample folders where they are. Nothing is copied, moved or renamed; you get tempo, key and tags on top of what you already own.

Organise a library
The Samplewright library table filtered to a Drums / Kicks tag, with BPM and key filter pills above it: six kick samples listed with duration, sample rate, channels, bit depth, key, BPM, note and tags.

Find

By what it is, not where you left it.

Tag chips that include or exclude, a BPM range, a key, a search field that filters as you type, and a table that sorts by any of it. Twelve thousand samples become the six you meant.

How finding works, step by step

Five mixer channel strips — Primary, Parallel Comp, Reverb Send, Delay Send and Master — each with plug-in inserts, sends, pan, a fader and a level meter.

Process

Your plug-ins, on your samples.

A real mixer: inserts on the channel, sends to buses, parallel buses mixed back in, from the AU and VST3 plug-ins already on your Mac. Render through the chain with delay compensation, so the file is exactly what you auditioned.

How processing works, step by step

Yours

Your sounds, your files, your Mac.

Originals never touched
Edits and processing render to new files. The source stays exactly as it was, every time.
A crash keeps the take
Takes are written to disk as they record. If something stops mid-take, the take is recovered when you reopen, up to its last second.
Plain files, no lock-in
What you make are ordinary WAV files, in folders you choose. They open in anything that reads audio, with or without Samplewright.
Nothing leaves your Mac
Your library is an index on your Mac. Your samples are never uploaded, and browsing, editing and exporting work offline.

Start here

Start with one record.

Or one folder. Nothing to migrate and nothing to tag before it’s useful: point it at what you already have and pull out one sound. The rest can follow when you like.

What producers ask first

Will a file sound the same as sampling through the inputs?
Not always, and that’s why you get both. Loading a file can skip the machine’s input stage, while sampling through the inputs includes it; either way it plays through the machine’s engine and outputs. From the same library, send the file, or play it into the inputs for that input colour. Which stages each route includes
Does Samplewright have to sit between my turntable and my sampler?
No. Keep the record cabled straight into the machine. Samplewright can record the same moment from a second output on your mixer, or you can bring in what you made afterwards.
I already have a DAW. Why add this?
Your DAW finishes the track. Samplewright makes the sounds that go into it: the crates, the takes, the chops and the kits, ready before the session starts.
Do I have to import my whole library first?
No. Point it at one folder, or record one side. Nothing is copied, moved or renamed, so you can start small and bring in the rest when you like.
Will it work with my sampler?
Every machine is listed with the exact file it loads, or the settings to sample it through its inputs — from a 1979 Fairlight to this year’s MPC. Find your sampler
Does it move or change my existing files?
No. Samplewright reads the folders you point it at and leaves them where they are. Edits and processing are rendered to new files, so the originals are never modified.
What happens to my sounds if I stop using it?
They stay where they are. Samplewright reads your folders in place and writes ordinary WAV files, so everything you made opens in anything that reads audio.
Will it run on my Mac?
It runs on Apple silicon Macs, the M-series, with macOS 11 or later. Full requirements
When can I get it?
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