The Master of Pro Audio

Samplitude is the DAW for audio professionals with the highest quality standards from recording to mastering. It combines the Hybrid Audio Engine for absolute sound neutrality with an object-based workflow and innovative editing features for recording, mixing, and mastering engineers.

Your complete audio package from recording to mastering

Object-Based Editing

Edit even the smallest sections of large projects efficiently and precisely. Control plugins, sends, and automation directly in the Object Editor for each individual clip.

Flexible Recording

Create the highest quality recordings on up to 999 tracks with maximum stability. Combine your best takes clearly and effortlessly into the perfect version.

MIDI and Plugin Support

Seamlessly integrate a huge selection of plugins into your production process. Comprehensive MIDI functionality also offers full control, precision, and flexibility when composing.

Customizable Workspaces

Customize your workspace to your exact needs. Move, dock, and save windows to fit your workflow.

Virtual Instruments

Compose your own melodies with versatile virtual instruments. Import your own VSTI plugins to take advantage of the full range of the plugin market.

Mixing and Mastering Tools

Mixing and mastering tools Equalizers, compressors, limiters and more – optimize your mix with precise tools and bring your productions to a professional sound level.

Unparalleled sound, absolute audio neutrality

The Hybrid Audio Engine delivers uncompromising audio quality thanks to its unique latency management. Short response times when calculating track effects enable live monitoring with minimal latency.

The integrated High Latency Engine ensures more effective system utilization and enables the integration of computationally intensive object, AUX, and surround functions.

Exclusively in Samplitude Suite

You’re perfectly equipped for next-gen audio with this comprehensive bundle thanks to native Dolby Atmos and ADM integration. Discover premium plugins like CrumplePop, Celemony Melodyne, Acon Digital Acoustica 7, and SOUND FORGE Pro 17, as well as other exclusive features.

Dolby Atmos

Experience a new dimension in audio production with native Dolby Atmos support. Create immersive soundscapes that go beyond traditional surround sound for an even more engaging listening experience.

ADM Editor

The ADM Editor enables structured management and clear presentation of ADM (Audio Definition Model) metadata for immersive audio formats such as Dolby Atmos. This allows you to organize your ADM metadata and keep track of it throughout the entire production process, from creation to final ADM export.

SOUND FORGE Pro 17

This powerful audio editor offers extensive editing and mastering features. It works with sample accuracy and allows precise editing and finalization of audio material in stereo and surround.

CrumplePop

Make your audio sound great! Add CrumplePop onto your track, adjust a knob or two, and transform your audio. There’s no need to study waveforms and manually keyframe your track (unless you want to). CrumplePop tools are easy enough for any video or podcast creator to use, but powerful enough to satisfy the most demanding audio engineer. That’s why CrumplePop is a go-to for one-person podcasts, broadcast TV, and everything in between.

Celemony Melodyne 5 Essential

Edit vocals and instruments with precise and easy-to-use pitch and timing features at the highest level. Perfect for intonation corrections, melodic variations, choral arrangements, quantization, and timing adjustments.

Acon Digital Acoustica 7 Premium Edition

Acoustica 7 offers a comprehensive toolkit of high-precision processing tools to craft distinctive and original sound design. The AI-powered Remix tool can split an audio file into five stems, allowing you to adjust their levels in real-time. Acoustica 7 features state-of-the-art spectral editing as well as a suite of mastering, audio restoration, and dialogue cleanup tools.

Features

Recording

Samplitude operates with absolute sound neutrality. Thanks to the consistent use of floating-point calculations, your sound always retains the desired character – even after intensive digital processing. The result: clarity, neutrality, preservation of transients, and spatiality.

Recording without Limits

Maximum audio quality and stability — even for complex sessions. Easily master even the largest projects with up to 999 tracks and 256 inputs and outputs. Samplitude supports all standard audio formats, including 16-bit to 32-bit floating point and sample rates up to 384 kHz.

Comping

The Take Composer provides a clear overview of every take of your recordings. Compare, edit, and combine them into the perfect sequence with specially optimized editing tools directly in the arrangement.

Editing

Time-saving workflows and precise editing tools ensure an optimized production environment so you can concentrate fully on your project.

Editing Objects in the Arranger

In addition to classic track editing, Samplitude offers intuitive, object-based editing. Set fades with custom curves, adjust volumes with your mouse, and trim or extend sections. For even more control, open the object editor with a double-click.

Object Editor

Easily integrate individual clips into your mix. Short sections in projects with complex arrangements don’t require dedicated tracks. Apply effects or route objects to AUX and surround buses. All edits are calculated non-destructively and during playback.

Precise Crossfade Editing

The Crossfade Editor is completely redesigned, more efficient, and modern. Thanks to an optimized overview and snapshots, you can access all important parameters even faster. Additionally, you can edit audio objects directly in the editor.

ARA2 Support

ARA2 plugins like Celemony Melodyne work directly in the DAW without transfers. You’ll have a faster workflow with access to all audio data, parallel track editing, and seamless transitions.

Continuous Playback

Keep the playback marker in its position during editing, even when you select a region. The continuous playback option allows smooth, uninterrupted editing within your project.

Automation Shapes

Smooth automations, effortlessly placed. Automation Shapes let you create smooth transitions between two points — precise, intuitive, and seamless.

zplane Algorithm

Use the new zplane algorithm, élastiquePro v3, to time-stretch and pitch-shift. Cutting-edge signal processing meets psychoacoustic models with flexible tempo and pitch for consistently excellent sound.

Copying Across Projects

Choose between the tabs of open projects and start the transfer. Use the checklist to decide which settings, such as VST plugins, AUX buses, or submix buses, should be copied.

Individual Customizations

Work the way you want. Flexibly customize the user interface, dock windows freely, and save your settings as personalized workspaces.

Music production

Inspiration awaits. Samplitude features versatile compositional aids and creative tools for unlimited musical possibilities. Discover extensive options for score creation, MIDI editing, and numerous virtual instruments.

Virtual Instruments

Samplitude offers a wide selection of modern and classic software instruments that enable versatile music productions. Explore groove boxes, synthesizers, and authentic sampler instruments to create distinctive sounds across a wide variety of genres.

MIDI Functionality

Effortlessly realize your musical ideas with powerful MIDI functions and elegant workflows.

Support for MIDI VST plug-ins
Samplitude has comprehensive support for MIDI plugins. Take advantage of the full range of the plugin market, combine multiple modules, and customize your MIDI routing to your needs.

MIDI Polyphonic Expression
MIDI Polyphonic Expression (MPE) sends a single note per channel with all parameters. MPE allows compatible controllers like the ROLI Seaboard to unleash their full potential and enable expressive, dynamic playing.

More Control over MIDI Modulations Parameter
Make the sound of your virtual instruments even more expressive with precise control over CC lanes. Display multiple controller lanes simultaneously and easily apply successful modulation curves to other parameters.

MIDI editor
Edit MIDI parameters with powerful tools. Move, scale, and quantize notes, velocity, pitch bend, and other events with the utmost precision.

Music notation
The integrated score editor displays MIDI data as notes with changes automatically applied. Up to 48 staves per track and two display modes offer complete flexibility from single lines to the entire score.

Drum Editor
Drum Editor offers extensive options to program drum tracks. Flexibly move events between channels, quantized and customized. Choose between Matrix mode with classic parameters and Cell mode for precise timing.

Mixing

Intuitive mixing, flexible routing, and new automation functions simplify even complex projects from small sessions to large productions with up to 999 tracks.

Channel Setups for Dolby 5.1

Advanced channel bus setups for Dolby 5.1 offer greater flexibility for surround productions. Exclusive to Suite: Advanced channel bus setups for Dolby 5.1 and 7.1, as well as Dolby Atmos configurations from 5.1.2 to 7.1.4, add greater flexibility in surround and immersive Atmos productions.

Using External Hardware Effects as Plugins

You can now integrate external hardware effects directly into Samplitude to use in projects like plugins. The plugin browser allows effect devices to easily integrate, while flexible routing allows optimal integration into the mix.

High DPI 4K Support

Optimized HDPI support delivers seamless compatibility with resolutions up to 4K. Multi-monitor setup optimization allows flexible use of multiple displays, even with different solutions.

Improved Multi-Source Visualization

Visualize track and bus outputs in up to 8 separate windows simultaneously, clearly distinguishing the outputs of submix buses for different instrument groups. Additionally, automatic input metering ensures precise level control while recording.

Monitoring Section

In the past, the Monitoring Section required control centers and cables. Now, you can manage multiple monitoring paths with or without effects inside Samplitude and use talkback with a simple mouse click or shortcut.

Tempo Track

Tempo gets its own track complete with automation functions. Draw curves freely with dynamic transitions or gradual increases. Convenient buttons make it easy to set markers for time signature and tempo changes.

Track Output Recording

When recording the track output, the playback signal is recorded instead of the input signal. You can record an intermediate version of your project directly to a new track without having to worry about export settings. The original material remains unchanged.

Plugin Browser

Quickly access your effect and instrument plugins with the plugin browser. It features flexible categorization, filtering, and a favorites function to keep things organized even if you have an extensive plugin collection.

coreFX Suite

The coreFX Suite is the ultimate effect bundle with all the essential tools you need for professional sound design. It includes a pumping effect for contemporary productions, five plugins for precise dynamic control, three modulation effects to create richness and space, and the latest addition, a tool for automating all essential processing tasks within one plugin. All dynamic plugins display the dry and processed waveform in real time.

coreFX includes: VolumeFormer, 2-Point-Compressor, Compressor, Limiter, Gate, Expander, Delay, Chorus, Flanger, and coreFX Utility.

• coreFX VolumeFormer and Delay (Available in Samplitude)

• coreFX Suite (Only in Samplitude Suite)

colorFX Suite (Only in Samplitude Suite)

colorFX Suite delivers a wide sound coloration palette. Tape Machine combines the pulsating dynamics of analog hardware with the precision of virtual sound control. Bitcrusher takes the concept of digital distortion to a new level, delivering more parameters for more excitement. Tube Distortion gives sound a singing quality that ranges from quiet and harmonic to fiery and crashing.

With signal routing that can be filtered and modulated, colorFX can be used flexibly – as subtle emulsifiers for masters and grouped signals, or to create a distinctive texture for individual tracks.

Advanced Automation Lanes

Track automation is clearly displayed in lanes. You can display and edit any number of parameters, such as volume, pan, or effects, simultaneously. Automations can be easily copied and transferred to other tracks—ideal for consistent volume curves for related instruments.

Vandal Guitar and Bass Amplifiers

Vandal faithfully recreates guitar and bass amplifiers from tube tones to speaker coils using physical modeling technology. It includes four stompboxes, 50 presets, and three microphone setups. The full version (Suite only) offers 24 stompboxes, 70 presets, and additional microphone options.

Analogue Modeling Suite Plus

Classic analog compressors inspire the am|track’s sound and offer optional virtual tape saturation. Exclusive to Samplitude Suite: am|phibia tube preamp, edit percussive signal envelopes with the am|pulse transient designer, and the am|munition dynamics all-rounder.

essentialFX Suite

The essentialFX Suite includes 11 professional modulation and dynamic effect plugins. Includes classics such as flanger, tremolo, and chorus; specialized tools to optimize speech and vocal recordings; and a high-quality compressor.

Vintage Effects Suite

Vintage Effects Suite delivers three distinctive effects with an analog flair: Filtox, an Oberheim-inspired filter, controls the frequency response of modulated sources—ideal for wah-wah effects. Ecox authentically emulates tape machine echoes, including wow and flutter. Corvex creates warm, analog-sounding chorus and flanger effects.

Cleaning effects

Spectral processing allows frequency-based cleaning directly at the track level. Remove noises like coughing or clapping without audibly altering the original signal. (Samplitude Suite only)

Additional cleaning plugins: DeHisser, DeClipper, and DeNoiser (Available in Samplitude and Samplitude Suite)

Mastering

Samplitude delivers a comprehensive high-end mastering feature set. All included effects are optimized for mastering applications. Easily visualize peak, loudness, frequency response, and phase coherence with customizable measurement tools.

Multi (Stem) Export

Export all project tracks as individual audio files, including all applied effects and routing configurations. This saves time because you don’t have to activate each channel, solo, or mute individually during export.

Range Marker + Export

Organize your project into multiple sections and distinguish them visually. Use the range marker export to precisely select the tracks and sections you want to export. It’s perfect for exporting stems or creating submixes.

Improved Export Workflow

Export multiple selected ranges simultaneously as stems, such as two songs in a project. Simply select both ranges and export all tracks in one step. Save yourself time and many manual clicks.

Shape Your Sound with DynamicEQ

Mix more easily and precisely. Boost or cut frequencies only where necessary – dynamically and level-dependently across the entire project. The flexible filter types of the EQ bands allow targeted adjustments with the highest precision, even in audio tracks and virtual instruments.

Resampling Engine Delivers the Highest Quality

The powerful resampling engine, based on the Sox algorithm, lets you to work with any sample rate. Thanks to configurable settings, it delivers the highest resampling quality in real time and without prior conversion.

Visualization

Use a variety of precise meters and analyzers, including bit meters, tuners, spectrograms, and mono compatibility meters. Combine them for detailed analysis of frequencies and stereo and surround sound distribution. The advanced multi-source visualization allows simultaneous evaluation of up to eight signal sources.

Exclusive to the Samplitude Suite: Loudness measurement according to EBU R128.

WaveColor

WaveColor visualizes every frequency response by coloring the waveform. Pitch and sound character are visualized in different hues and saturation levels. This allows unwanted noise and other anomalies to be identified before listening.

sMax11 Brickwall Limiter

Maximum loudness without compromise. Choose from various modes to precisely control the sound and the intensity of the limiter effect.

Exclusive to Samplitude Suite: The limiter detects and takes into account inter-sample peaks to avoid distortion and ensure clean signal limiting.

Mastering and Authoring

Create Redbook-compatible masters in all possible formats — uncompressed (linear PCM) or compressed formats — on a wide variety of blank media.

Exclusively in Samplitude Suite: In addition to the physical gold master, you can also create a bit-accurate digital DDP master for transfer to the pressing plant.

MP3/AAC Preview Plugin

Exclusive to the Samplitude Suite: With the preview plugin, you can hear how the result will sound before exporting. This allows you to adjust encoding parameters early on and avoid artifacts or loss of high frequencies. It’s also ideal for exporting to special standards like Mastered for iTunes.

System Requirements

Operating systems

• Windows 10

• Windows 11

64-bit (32-bit isn’t supported)

Processor (CPU)

• Intel Core i/ultra – series, AMD Ryzen

System Memory (RAM)

• 8GB minimum (16GB recommended)

Disk

• 2GB minimum, 90GB with instruments and sounds

Supported Audio Import

• WAV, Broadcast WAV, AAC, MPEG, MP3, OGG Vorbis, AIFF, FLAC, SD2, MUS, DDP

Supported Audio Export

• WAV, Broadcast WAV, AAC, MP3, OGG Vorbis, AIFF, FLAC

Supported Video Import

• DV-AVI, MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, H.264, HDV HD1, HDV HD2, MXV, DVCPRO, AVC-Intra, WMV(HD)

Supported Video Export

• DV-AVI, MPEG-1, MPEG-2, HDV HD1, HDV HD2, MXV

Other Formats Import

• JPEG, BMP, MIDI Standard Format (MID, GM, GS, XG)

Other Formats Export

• MID, AAF/OMF, EDL

2 Activations

When you purchase Samplitude or Music Studio, your license now includes two activations.

This means you can install and activate the software on two computers at the same time- for example, your desktop workstation and your laptop.