The modern software sampler is a phenomenally powerful and flexible music-making tool. Platforms like Steinberg HALion and NI Kontakt are infinitely more capable than the hardware samplers of the late ...

As computer performance has improved dramatically in recent years, software samplers have moved into what was formerly the turf of hardware titans. Emagic Xtreme Sampler 24 Bit (EXS24) 1.0 is Emagic's ...

There are samplers on the market that can cater for all of these use cases, some that are geared towards one specific purpose, and some that sit somewhere in between. Some offer an astonishing depth ...