CHOMPI is discontinued but lives on as an open-source sampler
Chase Bliss has officially discontinued the cute CHOMPI hardware sampler, but it lives on as an open-source project. The cute...
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EMW S-8000: compact sample Synthesizer with multi-sample playback
EMW S-8000 is a new compact, hardware-based sample Synthesizer that can play back both single and multi-samples. Over the past...
Beetlecrab Tempera 2.3 update: granular synth gets cross-modulation, and more
Beetlecrab has updated the Tempera granular synth to version 2.3, adding cross-modulation, grain skip probability, envelope follower, and more. Tempera...
Akai MPC Sample: battery-powered hardware sampler: available again in the EU
Akai MPC Sample is a new, battery-powered portable hardware sampler inspired by the Akai MPC60: full details The MPC Sample...
1010music blackbox 2: compact sampler workstation: firmware 1.1.0 with new features
1010music blackbox 2 is available now: the next generation of the compact sampler workstation with twice the power, new hardware,...
Kiviak Instruments WOFI LE: budget-friendly version of the retro-inspired sampler
Superbooth 2026: Kiviak Instruments WOFI LE is a budget-friendly, yet not stripped-down, version of the retro-inspired keyboard sampler. When Kiviak...
Chompi Club sampler is back in stock, new Tempo firmware and hardware update in 2026
Chompi Club hardware sampler, part of Chase Bliss, is back in stock with an upcoming new Tempo firmware and a...
Rainy Day Cumulus, hardware sampler turns your input into multi-layer loopscapes
Rainy Day Cumulus is a new battery-powered hardware sampler that turns your samples/loops into fully-controllable multi-layer soundscapes. Otem Relik has...
Woovebox 2.0, the mini sampling and synthesis groovebox gets even more features
Woovebox is a new portable groovebox that squeezes a heck of synthesis and sampling features in a tiny cardbox groovebox:...
Sonicware LoFi-12 XT retro sampling groovebox: update 1.5 with new features
Sonicware melts the LIVEN LoFi-12 and SmplTrek elements in the new LoFi-12 XT, a portable, 8-track sampling groovebox with creative...
