Plug in, play, record.
Combine catchy samples and powerful virtual instruments to create your own arrangements. Get the band together and start recording. Combine the best takes to create the perfect mix. Add finishing touches in mastering.
Samplitude Music Studio has everything you need.
Recording
Easy and professional
Choose from a range of recording templates for pure MIDI sessions or entire recording projects. Recording vocals and perfectly tuned instruments on multiple tracks at the same time.
Recording | Virtual Music Production | Editing | Mixing & Mastering
Multitrack recording
Record instruments and vocals in up to 24-bit/96 kHz studio quality on up to 16 mono tracks or 8 stereo tracks at the same time. From band practice to demo tapes to entire albums – a range of professional editing tools and high-quality plugins are available for every track.
Vocal recording correction
With Vocal Tune 2, correcting your vocal recordings is simple. The pitch curves and practical waveform display let you adjust recordings in detail with the pencil tool.
Recording templates
With recording templates, a single click is all it takes to get your projects ready for recording solo performances or entire bands. Suitable tracks with EQ, compressor and other effects are loaded and ready to go for recording.
Chromatic tuner
With the integrated tuner, you can make sure your guitar and bass are perfectly tuned before you start recording. Simply hit a string and adjust it. This tool also works with acoustic resonating bodies and other amplified instruments, such as analog synths.
Track freeze
The gentle cycle for your hard drive and RAM without loss of sound quality: Recordings made with effects can be easily converted to normal audio files using track freeze. The applied effects are disabled until the tracks are "thawed out".
Virtual music production
Instruments, MIDI & Soundpools
Once your guitars, vocals and drums are recorded, you can easily add more musical elements to them. Bring your songs to completion by recording virtual instruments with MIDI controllers and combining sounds and loops from different genres with drag & drop controls.
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Improvise, compose, harmonize.
Instruments in Samplitude Music Studio
Samplitude Music Studio 2021 contains 26 impressive VST instruments for improvising and composing your own music – from concert grand pianos to atmospheric synthesizers to full-bodied drums and entire ensembles.
Solo Cello
An authentic cello that sounds just as good on its own as it does in an ensemble. The master of all musical parts, from the delicate to the powerfully expressive.
Jazz Guitar
Here it's all about the warm, semi-acoustic tones we've come to know from so many legendary recordings. A jazz guitar that can do it all, with smooth and supple style.
Ukulele
Summer vibes are on the agenda with the strum of these nylon strings. The Ukulele promises sunny weather, tropical beaches and the desire to get away from it all.
Steel Tongue
This special metallophone provides a wide range of striking techniques, and hence a variety of different sounds. The steel tongues are speaking. Can you hear them?
Balalaika
The sound of these three strings are an invitation to the feet to dance. And it isn't the Cossacks alone who'll be dancing. Your audience will too.
Soloist Collection
Set the tone up front or create harmony in the background – only the human voice can do this. Create vocals with sounds ranging from natural to experimental.
Analog Synths 2
A single synthesizer with a plethora of stunning sounds – from analog to digital and classic to modern. Analog Synths 2 delivers sounds for every genre.
Wooden Clarinet
The Wooden Clarinet is most common as an orchestral or jazz instrument, however its warm tone fits every style of music – from pop to R&B to even house.
Handchimes, Bells and Glass
More fullness in rhythm and tone: The virtual metal and glass percussion keep time and provide dynamic melodic sequences.
Lead Trumpets
A traditional instrument that has even found a place today in modern compositions and gives any songs an emotional touch.
Mid and Low Brass
Hip hop or jazz, pop or EDM – these virtual horns are extremely versatile and perfectly suited as accompaniment for any style.
Cornets
This is a horn that is similar tonally to the trumpet and is used in classical orchestral music, as well as in modern pop songs.
Bongos
Hot Caribbean flair directly in Samplitude Music Studio: The Bongos coaxes you to dance the salsa with its energetic rhythms.
Congas
Rhythmic character in Latino style – with these Congas, creating infectious dance music is a sure bet.
Shaker
No matter whether in Latin American music or mainstream pop – this virtual shaker offers the proper groove for any genre.
Taiko
A burst of excitement occurs when this huge Japanese drum enters a piece. It's a perfect addition to dramatic sequences in songs and soundtracks.
Choir
Exceptional background vocals or elegant melodic choral accompaniment – this virtual choir features crystal-clear female vocals, deep male voices and a mixed choir for creating elegant melodic arrangements.
Church Organ
The enthralling Church Organ lets you create deep, majestic soundscapes. The imposing tones of a Venetian organ have been specially recorded for this instrument. Just like the original, this instrument delivers impressive emotion and drama.
Cinematic Soundscapes
Cinematic Soundscapes: This instrument is both intensely mystic and exotic and creates a breathtaking sound atmosphere for a movie score and abstract electronic music with a really dramatic backdrop.
Cinematic Synth
Dark dreamy sequences, grating bass lines and cinematic keys – for creating a film-like atmosphere, Cinematic Synth has it all. The included effects create sounds for a phenomenal, otherworldly atmosphere. Ideal for film scores.
Concert Grand
Concert Grand brings a sound that everyone will fall head over heels with. This virtual instrument has been created using a sample of a professional-quality grand piano in a concert hall and emanates the unmistakable full sound of this classic instrument.
Drum Engine
The legendary Drum Engine offers a huge range of electronic drum kits but also preset sounds and a sophisticated interface for programming awesome grooves.
Folk
A lively banjo, a soulful piano, rhythmic percussion and a dreamy acoustic guitar – for that distinctive touch in traditional country music or modern pop productions using Folk instruments.
World Flutes
Pan flute, Bulgarian piccolo, West African tambin, Indian Kiowa Native American or Chinese Xiao: World Flutes bring together flutes from different parts of the world – with highly authentic sound.
Pop Drums
The colorful mix of acoustic and electronic drum sounds offers you everything for crisp trap beats, exciting pop grooves or chilled rap. With Pop Drums, you'll always find the right rhythm.
Orchestral Ensemble
With professional recordings of brass and woodwind instruments as well as drums and strings, Orchestral Ensemble is a truly impressive plug-in instrument. Perfect for film and pop productions, but also great in fat hip hop beats.
Bring your favorites with you
From Music Maker to Music Studio
Samplitude Music Studio automatically detects your Music Maker instruments, letting you use your collection in both programs. Combine the tried-and-true with the latest-and-greatest in your next project.
Plug in, record, edit.
MIDI in Samplitude Music Studio
Simply connect your MIDI device, such as a keyboard or pad controller, record to your heart's content, and then edit your MIDI material in the editor.
MIDI editor
Record melodies and drum beats on a MIDI device or with your mouse and edit them easily in the included MIDI editor. Choose between the piano roll, score and drum editor views. Adjust velocity, pitch bend and modulations in the respective areas of the editor. Display the notation for your compositions and arrangements or basic chord progressions, and even print them.
MIDI editing
Samplitude Music Studio 2021 boasts better plug & play for MIDI devices, easier editing of MIDI automation data and functionality for smoothing and touching up automated parameters.
Sounds & loops for your music
Soundpools in Samplitude Music Studio
Samplitude Music Studio 2021 contains eight new Soundpools with a huge range of professional sounds and loops which you can use to sketch out a track or to enhance one of your own arrangements.
Editing
Shape your tracks
Whether at the object level or the track level: Samplitude Music studio offers practical solutions for editing audio tracks and files.
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Pitch shifting & Time stretching
Easily adjust the pitch of audio files without affecting playback speed. This feature is great for making quick harmony changes in arrangements.
And if you need to pick up the pace a little bit, you can also easily adjust the playback speed of your audio material without affecting the pitch.
Object editor
Edit the sound of individual audio clips without having to change track settings or create new tracks. For instance, you can apply an effect to just a single word in a vocal recording to make it stand out. The object editor also provides EQ and time/pitch settings for each clip.
Perfect transitions
Much more than the sum of its parts: Use the Cross-Fade editor to design seamless transitions between different audio files. For un unbelievable listening experience.
Combine objects & takes
Combine all your takes and objects into groups at any time. You can group all the objects on one or more tracks and move them together, edit them or add effects.
Mixing & mastering
The perfect sound
Give your music unmatched sound with first-class effects and tried-and-true tools, whether in the mix or during the finishing touches of production, mastering. All of the reverb and delay effects on each individual track can be sent to the AUX busses. Submix busses are also available for combining the outputs of multiple tracks, such as individual drums.
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NEW! Tempo track
Using a track to control tempo ensures that your arrangement has a clear structure. The speed and tempo changes you make are displayed by means of easy-to-manage markers. Transitions for musical climaxes and slow-downs can be easily automated.
NEW! Automation Shapes
Use the available shapes to create smooth custom transitions between automation points. The predefined curve types are suitable for making both classic fades and dramatic modulations.
NEW! quickFX VolumeFormer
Achieve striking gate and pump effects with a range of ready-made presets, and say goodbye to all those complicated settings. Make sounds that pulsate rhythmically and rise and fall with the beat of the song. A great addition for many genres of music.
Vandal SE
Overdrive or distortion, tremolo or chorus: the Vandal SE virtual guitar and bass amp sounds like an authentic analog amplifier, but with a range of unique and diverse features. Can be used with connected instruments or as an insert effect in the mix.
essentialFX Suite
11 incredible plugins in a single collection:
With the essentialFX Suite, the most important effects for mixing and mastering are always right where you need them.
eFX Gate
The flexible gate plug-in offers noise reduction with soft knee options and sidechain filter function for rhythmic ducking effects.
eFX Vocal Strip
Optimized for vocal and speech recordings: This channel strip offers compressor, DeEsser, gate, high-pass filter and sound shaping.
eFX Compressor
A classic compressor for level compensation for audio material and for adding punch – includes a soft clip function and an advanced side chain filter.
eFX Tremolo Pan
eFX Tremolo Pan lets you achieve classic tremolo effects and edit rates, shapes, tremolos, tempo synchronization and panoramas.
eFX Chorus Flanger
eFX Chorus Flanger offers everything you need for more depth for your sound – from chorus effects to flanger sounds. In addition, easily define settings for frequency, depths, feedback and mix.
eFX deEsser
With eFX DeEsser, filter out unwanted "s" sounds from speech and vocal recordings.
eFX Phaser
Add more movement to main tracks and more dynamics to guitar. This classic phaser effect also includes settings for speed, depths, feedback and mixes.
eFX Tube Stage
eFX Tube Stage contains pre EQs and post EQs and an oversampling mode for creating an impressive analog sound - perfect for simulating the authentic, warm sound of analog tube amps.
eFX Limiter
Access enhanced volume for audio signal and reduced clipping with this efficient and dynamic limiter.
eFX Reverb
Add short or long reverb – eFX Reverb brings more space and more atmosphere to your sound.
eFX Stereo Delay
With individually adjustable delays for both channels and a sophisticated tempo sync feature, stereo delay adds spatiotemporal spice to any track.
Mastering Suite
Saving the best for last. Audible transparency and intuitive parameter controls make it easy to achieve tonal balance, the right amount of loudness and a broad spectrum. Samplitude Music Studio includes a StereoFX module, multiband compressor, 6-band equalizer, limiter, MultiMax and tons more features and effects – all designed to put the finishing touch on your production.
Auto Mastering
Mastering is one of the most demanding and specialized aspects of music production and requires extensive experience in sound perception. Auto Mastering analyses your audio material and finds the perfect settings for your song. This is a great way for newcomers to build a solid foundation in mastering.
Sound analysis
Listen with your eyes
Samplitude Music Studio offers many different ways to analyze sound, from the new WaveColor tool with its colored frequencies to the visualization of spectrum and level. This way you'll always know exactly where to make adjustments to keep your tracks sounding well-rounded.
NEW! WaveColor
Wouldn't it be great if you could represent the sound character and pitches of a song with color gradients and saturation levels? WaveColor makes it easy to spot noise and other artifacts in your audio tracks, even before you listen to them. The colors make it simple to tell different instrument types apart, so you'll always know what's going on in the waveform. In the new Samplitude Music Studio.
Visual sound analysis
Visual analysis helps you mix and tidy up essential frequency ranges so that every element comes through loud and clear. The program includes a vectorscope (phase control), spectroscope (spectrum level) and spectrogram (frequencies shown over time).
Direction meter
The direction meter shows you what your production's sound looks like in the stereo field. This lets you assess mono compatibility better and carry out precise adjustments where they're needed.
Peak Meter
The peak meter displays the peak level for your production. If certain values are exceeded too often, you should lower levels of the corresponding causes when you mix your song down to eliminate clipping from the mix.
Advanced functions
Full of sound. Full power.
Internal Hybrid Audio Engine
The internal Hybrid Audio Engine is used by professional sound engineers and producers the world over and provides optimal latency management during recording and playback of your tracks.
64-bit & multi-core support
64-bit and multicore support allows you to use your PC to its full potential. This enhanced performance becomes particularly noticeable when using RAM-intensive plug-ins and working with large, complex mixes.
VST3 & ReWire
Samplitude Music Studio offers VST and ReWire support for additional instruments and effects. It also includes VST3 plug-in support for integration, automation and VST multi-output. Available interfaces include: VST3, VST2, ASIO, ReWire, SMPTE, MTC, MC.
Full projects. Full control.
One project, 32 instruments
In Samplitude Music Studio you can load and work with up to 32 instruments simultaneously within a single project. This enables you to achieve an even fuller sound for your compositions.
Hardware support
Samplitude Music Studio supports the Mackie control protocol and conventional hardware controllers, making it possible to write automations live by moving the sliders on external devices.
Automation Lanes
In Samplitude Music Studio, automations for track and effect parameters are shown on dedicated subtracks to the audio track. Edit several parameters in parallel and show or hide automation lanes to keep your projects clear and organized.
Plug-in browser
The Plug-in browser makes it possible to access effects and instruments quickly and easily apply plug-ins using keyboard shortcuts or your mouse. You can also sort effects and instruments and use filters to easily find the plugins you're looking for.
Marker Manager
The Marker Manager ensures interface clarity when producing albums. It enables you to filter and edit a whole range of markers – such as track and pause markers – in complex mastering projects.
Samplitude Music Studio 2021 is there wherever you need it. From the first to the last note, and from your garage to the stage. A compact, all-rounder that provides incredible performance, whether for composing, recording, mixing or mastering.
Samplitude Music Studio 2021 is there wherever you need it. From the first to the last note, and from your garage to the stage. A compact, all-rounder that provides incredible performance, whether for composing, recording, mixing or mastering.