The folks at Bitwig have been picking up speed. And version 2.4, beta testing now, brings some promising sampler and controller features.

One app for iOS and Android now recognizes songs – and links you to covers, remixes, and samples. WhoSampled just added song recognition.

Cristina Buga brings a new sample instrument app for iOS, Samplist. It has Audiobus, Inter-App Audio and MIDI built in already, and seems to be getting updates almost every day right now

The Swedish family of tiny, calculator instruments-on-a-board continues to grow: and now they sample and speak, too. Teenage Engineering are back with their sub-100EUR line of simple, playable pocket instruments. As always, these feature screens, battery power, folding stands, and alarm clock features that mimic early Nintendo handhelds – plus more powerful features, like parameter […]

Sounds.com is a subscription-based loop and sample site – but it’s also a glimpse into Native Instruments’ future strategy for digital services for musicians. Today, NI are revealing Sounds.com – a product in 2018 that sounds like someone registered a domain in 1996. That domain name pretty much covers it: it’s a place to go […]

The Roland-Serato combination stakes out a clear niche: adding live techniques to DJ routines. Now some free sounds and videos will get you started.

You can tote a USB stick and plug into CDJ decks, yes. And now, if the club starts buying Pioneer samplers, you can do the same with sample sets.

Japanese giant Pioneer continue their march to expand from decks and mixers into live tools for DJs. The latest: a sampler in the form of the ubiquitous CDJ.

expressionPad is a new free and universal Synth/Sampler and CoreMIDI instrument, that was actually a lot better than I expected, here’s why

If an experimental live sampler / looper / granular / FFT scrub effect is your kind of thing then check out soundfruuze from the maker of rrarrow and Phawuo