ATRip

ATRip is Windows CD audio ripper software from a href="http://www.voicecrystal.com/atrip.htm">Voice Crystal designed for sampling musicians.

Awave-FMJ Software

Author of the audio format converter Awave for Windows This is a great tool for any PC & sampler owner. Huge list of supported formats including Midi SDS Dump, Akai .SND files and much more.

AweVBank 98

Megota Software's Win9x patch and sample manager for the AWE, SB Live! and Emu APS soundcards from Creative Labs.

Beat Creator

Windows program that synthesizes bass and snare drum samples. Available for download.

Cool Edit

A very capable shareware wave editor for Windows.

Digidesign

Makers of Sample Cell sample RAM hardware for the Mac & PC. New PCI See Tech Support for support & software updates.

D-SoundPro

Professional shareware sound editor for the Mac. Supports AIFF & midi standard sample dump. Fully working version can be downloaded for a 15 day trial period ... give it a try !! Now 2.4.1 features FAT code, runs native on PowerMac

Drumsynth

Windows software for synthesizing analog drums samples.

Effects Master

Need an effects unit ? Try this shareware realtime effects processor for Win95.

Gadget Labs

Featuring Wavezip for loss free wave file compression. plus Wave 4 PC audio card, with 4 inputs and 4 outputs & simulataneous record & playback on all channels.

Gigasampler

Sick of trying to loop sampled instruments ? Nemesys present software polyphonic sample playback for Win95 that supports samples up to 2 GB in size. See the Gigasampler Users Site for more info & support, as well as Worra's Place which has sounds and a message board for Gigasampler users. Also check Glasstrax for sampling tips and Bigga Giggas sample CDs.

GoldWave Digital

Audio Editor

Another very good Windows audio editor

GrooveMaker

Real time remixable groove-generator using random combinations of loops using pre-arranged studio-ready sample collections. Includes Techno, Trance, Dub, Progressive Hardcore, House, Jungle etc. Also see Virtual Synth Arpeggiator and the virtual DJ V-Mix software. And now new sample libraries just available for the GrooveMaker, the IG Interactive-Groove series.

Infinity

Antares presents DSP looping tools for the Mac. Highly rated in reviews, Inifinity takes all the pain out of finding/creating that seamless loop. A very unique product.

Mellosoftron

Software sampler for Windows. Download free to try it out. Turn's any WAV file into an intrument you can play from your midi keyboard.

Mixman Studio

Presentation software that allows you to build & mix a CD audio track. Libraries of source material avilable including hip hop, dance & techno etc. Great for DJ mixes and includes tempo matching and more. Demo available. Also see Joe's Mixman Site, Mixlab and Outpost 247

MPL Pocket

Tools

A sample calculator providing a number of useful BPM conversion functions.

Rramm Drrumm

Sisusoft's freeware Rramm Drrumm for Windows is a dedicated tool for playing drum (and any other one-shot stereo) samples via MIDI. It can be used as a drum machine with a sequencer.

SampleCalc

UCSoft presents their shareware Win9X program to perform calculations on sample rate to BPM and vice versa. Also includes a time/tempo sample stretch rate calculaor.

Sampled

Sampled is a freeware DOS sample editor with looping & support for some Roland & Akai samplers, plus other feature.

Samplifier

A Midi/SCSI transfer utility for the Mac that supports MIDI Sample Dump Standard.

Sample Link

From Synoptic, the makers of Virtual Waves & Voice FX. Sample link is a sample file manager, batch processor & converter supporting conversion to most popular formats including SDS (Midi Dump), Gravis & Soundfont.

TransferStation

See the TransferStation FAQ. Software that allows you to read and write sample files over SCSI.

Tranlator

Sample Tranlator will convert between many different sample file formats including Akai, Roland, EOS & Kurzweil. Some retrictions still apply on which conversions are available.

Sample Wrench

Dissident's sound sample editor which supports SDS, SMDI and other samplers. Available for Windows 95/NT and Amiga.

Signum 1100

Software sampler for Win95 DirectX-5. Signum 1100 is a software emulation of an Akai sampler with full midi control. Demo available for download.

Sound Forge

Sonic Foundry's Sound Forge sample editor (demo available) Available for the PC, with full plugin support this is a heavyweight sample editing application and a must to check out. Now includes CD mastering facilities.

Soundview

A Mac audio processing application featuring analysis, resynthesis, sound morhping and more, from Peabody Digital Soundworks.

Tuareg

A Win9x software device called "interactive phrase sampler". Demo available for download. It is a sequencer/loop-composer/remixer that creates tracks out of the loops, samples and short sounds you feed it.

Understanding

Sampling Video

Mind Media's instructional video "Understanding Samplers & Sampling...in plain english "

Unity DS-1

A full featured software sampler for Win95 and Mac platforms.

WaveGen for

Windows

Shareware Windows PCM Wave generation software. Wave shaping algorithms including melodic & harmonic control. Very interesting source for new samples so download it and see what it can do !! Soundfont support.

Wavelab

Steinberg's Wavelab for the PC offers pro audio editing and DSP functions and supports transfer of samples via midi and SCSI.

Wave Surgeon

Wave Surgeon for Win95 is a breakbeat splitting and loop finding tool , which allows you to change a breakbeat`s pitch without changing speed + vice versa.

X-Incarn

Windows loop processing application featuring ADSR envelopes, low pass filter, resonance, distortion scratching, pitch shift etc.

Xloop Converter

Free Windows sampling calculator. Enter one field: BPM, number of samples, number of bytes or duration and Xloop Converter will calculate the other fields.

Zero-X Seamless

Looper

Windows software with SCSI support for creating sample loops.

Zero-X Groove

Editor

Atari software with SCSI support for creating drum grooves. Support for AKAI S900 & up, Ensoniq EPS & up, EMU, GEM, Kurzweil K2000 & up, Roland S7xx, Yamaha and any sampler that supports Standard MIDI Sample Dump.