The Art of Sampling Bundle

Master the Art of Sampling

Introducing the Art of Sampling Bundle, the fundamental collection of sampling tools, high-quality samples and professional video guides to help you develop the skills that are paramount to becoming an expert in sampling.

First up is your key sampling tool, Sample by Serato. This intuitive plugin allows you to import any audio file and instantaneously split it into separate samples for you to chop, key shift and time-stretch in your music. Sample integrates Serato's iconic Pitch 'n Time algorithm to give you the best quality time-stretching possible.

Secondly, we have Plugin Boutique Radio. This handy tool streams global radio stations directly to your DAW, giving you access to a world of new, unique sounds to sample in your music.

Thirdly, we have included two in-depth Producertech video guides to introduce you to the world of sampling. The Art of Sampling covers all of the fundamental aspects of sampling across 90 minutes of content. After establishing your key sampling skills, Producertech's Creative Sampling Techniques takes them one step further and applies them to a real-world sampling scenario. This course walks you through the process of using sampling methodology to create a Glitch Electronica track within Ableton Live, where you can expect to find advanced inspiration, tips and techniques.

Finally, we have also bundled three top-quality Loopmasters sample packs, providing you with a wealth of samples, loops and kits for your music. VIBES Vol 1 - Soul Trax brings the soul flavour with 2.19 GB of soulful samples, Jazz Crates provides 1.19 GB of jazz samples performed by The Jazz Defenders and Broken Breaks completes the set with a heavy collection of current Breakbeats to chop, screw and sample.

This collection of products will allow you to apply, develop and hone your new-found sampling skills, helping you to truly master the art of sampling. The Art of Sampling Bundle is exclusive to Plugin Boutique and available for a limited time only.

Add a Killer Sampler to Your DAW with Serato Sample

Serato Sample brings insane sampling flexibility to your favorite DAW or AU/VST/VST3 plug-in host.

With Serato Sample's special algorithm, you can quickly sync your samples to your project BPM, detect and shift the key, find 32 of the best samples in your track, and separate it into any combination of isolated vocal, melody, bass or drums. Then, chop and tweak them to fit your mix.

With time stretching powered by Serato’s legendary Pitch 'n Time – you can speed up or slow down your chops or shift the pitch to create never-before-heard sounds! Want to kick it up a notch? Map a single sample or stem chop across all the keys of your controller and play it chromatically like a synth. There are tons of inspiring ways to put Serato Sample to work.

Features

• A powerful and intuitive AU/VST/VST3 sampler plug-in that syncs its BPM to your project and detects the key
• Automatically find and chop up to 32 of the best samples from your track in a click – or slice it manually your way.
• Separate your track into up to 4 high quality audio stems in real-time. Then chop, flip, and manipulate them like a regular sample.
• Random mode adds a bit of chaos to your sample chop selection
• Find drum one shots for fast beat making, subdivide and slice the beat at the interval you want such as 1/16, ⅛, ¼, ½, 1, 2 etc.
• Integrated Pitch 'n Time algorithms let you key shift and stretch samples
• Keyboard mode lets you play a single sample across the piano scale
• Mono/poly playback modes let you trigger cue points as single notes, chords, or drum patterns
• Trigger your sample Cue Points with your computer keyboard, MIDI hardware, or paint them straight into your piano roll.

What's New in Serato Sample 2.0?

• Audio stem separation: Separate and isolate your sample into any combination of 4x core track stems, including: vocal acapella, melody, bass and drums
• VST3 added to AU/VST supported plugin formats

Serato’s launch of Sample 2.0 is the first professional plug-in to incorporate audio stem-separation into its widely popular sampling workflow.

This adds additional weight to an enviable list of Serato Sample’s features, including: key detection and shifting, BPM sync and shift, Pitch ’n Time algorithm quality, dynamic color-coded waveforms, and the ability to instantly ‘find samples’ to inspire, experiment, and create music rapidly.

The Importance of Stems

Democratizing the availability of high-quality, real-time stem isolation in the sampling workflow is set to change the future of Hip Hop and popular music production.

Stem-separation had previously only been available to consumers in single-purpose solutions (paid services, stem-separator plugins etc) or as part of larger digital audio editing suites. These solutions are well known within the production community but have varying levels of ease-of-use, quality, cost – often substituting UX and creative flow for complex and robust sound editing capabilities.

Now Stems is incorporated into the broader sampling workflow, music producers don’t just chop, flip and manipulate samples in a 2-dimensional, linear sense; they are now working in 3D with the ability to extract and unveil the track layers buried within their samples to unveil a previously unimaginable range of creative possibilities.

Learn more about Serato Sample.

Plugin Boutique Radio

Air.Play

Radio lets you stream and sample from a diverse list of internet radio stations, both inside and outside of your DAW. Use Radio as a plugin within your DAW when you are feeling creative, and use it as a standalone application when you simply want to listen to the radio.

Once you launch Radio, you can select from a carefully curated list of online stations. The station presets are diverse and include a balance of comedy, sci-fi, police scanners, ambient, spoken word, paranormal and many more, so it’s easy to find something unexpected!

Features

• Buffer audio within Radio for sampling, or record everything in your DAW
• Simply select clips from Radio’s display to save them permanently for later use
• Drag and drop sampled clips from the plugin to your DAW
• 24 FX emulations including vintage radios, car and portable stereos, small speakers and phones

Learn more about Plugin Boutique Radio.

Producertech The Art of Sampling

This course covers all of the core concepts of sampling, using a range of DAW factory and 3rd party plugin instruments, providing students with a fundamental understanding of how to confidently work with whatever samplers they own.

Sample Module - Old School Looping Bass Creation

Features

• 90 mins of streamed lessons
• Access 24/7/365
• Samples from the course
• 100MB of Bonus Samples

Learn more about Producertech The Art of Sampling.

Producertech Creative Sampling Techniques

Following on from the beginner’s guide ‘The Art of Sampling’, which covers all of the fundamentals of how to sample, ‘Creative Sampling Techniques’ sees certified trainer Rob Jones applying different sampling methodology in original ways to produce all of the musical parts in a Glitch Electronica track within Ableton Live. Whilst the 2 courses work together well as a sequence, producers with sampling experience already may prefer to dive straight in with this set of tutorials, offering more advanced inspiration and tips to develop their workflow.

Sample Module - Vocal Pitch Envelope Editing

Features

• Nearly 2 hours of streamed lessons
• Access 24/7/365
• Ableton Live Project from the course
• 100 MB of Bonus Samples

Learn more about Producertech Creative Sampling Techniques.

Loopmasters Lack of Afro Presents Jazz Crates

Loopmasters bring you Lack of Afro Jazz Crates – modern soul-jazz slant on classic hard bop, effortlessly channelling the spirit of the golden Blue Note era of jazz. All content is 100% Royalty Free and delivered with the passion, pride and high performance you’d expect from lack of Afro and his accomplices.

Lack of Afro Jazz Crates is performed by The Jazz Defenders; a group born out of a deep love for Blue Note Records – specifically the hard bop recordings of Horace Silver, Hank Mobley, Lee Morgan and Art Blakey. They’ve worked with a variety of internationally acclaimed artists such as Nigel Kennedy, Massive Attack, Pee Wee Ellis, Andy Sheppard, Get The Blessing, Simon Spillet, Alan Barnes, Rodriguez & Nostalgia 77, as well as playing at venues including Ronnie Scott’s, The Jazz Cafe & The 606 Club.

Musicians featured on this collection

• George Cooper - Piano, Rhodes, Band Leader
• Nicholas Dover - Tenor Saxophone
• Nicholas Malcolm - Trumpet
• Will Harris - Upright & Electric Bass
• Matt Brown - Drums

Features

• 1.19 GB
• 24Bit 44.1KHZ
• 72 Live Drum Loops
• 55 Horn Loops
• 12 Bass & Drum Combi Loops
• 10 Piano Loops
• 9 Bass Loops
• 3 Bass & Piano Combi Loops
• 69 Bonus Mixed Groove Loops
• 201 rex2 Files

Learn more about Loopmasters Lack of Afro Presents Jazz Crates.

Loopmasters VIBES Vol 1 - Soul Trax

Loopmasters present the first in their new VIBES Series with Soul Trax – a rich collection of Royalty Free Soul Samples, oozing with the feel-good sound which defined a generation. The collection comes packed with bubbly live bass, solid rhythmic guitars and beautifully melodic keys and topped with plenty of funky back beats.

Soul Trax is a timeless journey of soulful samples that take inspiration from Motown Records, Tamla Records, Gordy Records and artists like Diana Ross, The Temptations, Stevie Wonder, The Four Tops, Marvin Gaye, Commodores, Jackson 5, Lionel Richie, The Supremes and many more.

Features

• 2.19 GB
• 24Bit 44.1KHZ
• 20 Track Construction Kits
• 80 Drum Loops
• 66 Bass Loops
• 62 Guitar Loops
• 34 Perc Loops
• 32 organ Loops
• 32 piano Loops
• 16 Horn Loops
• 13 Clap Loops
• 6 Mallet Loops
• 2 Vox Loops
• 2 Electric Organ Loops
• 1 String Loop
• 357 Rex2 files

Learn more about Loopmasters VIBES Vol 1 - Soul Trax.

Loopmasters Broken Breaks

From swinging Jazz Breaks, Crunchy Snares and Filtered Kicks through Heavy Soul Samples and Chemical Beats, Broken Breaks moves effortlessly through the most important current Breakbeat genres and delivers a first class production package for Producers, DJs and Composers.

Broken Breaks is the ultimate sample collection for breakbeat enthusiasts working in all genres of modern music production, bringing an incredible collection of future classic beats and breaks to studios worldwide.

Every breakbeat in this pack is brimming with flavour, authenticity and attitude, and producers making tracks for genres as diverse as Broken Beats, Nu-Jazz, Lounge, Hip Hop, Breakbeat, Electro, Breaks and Drum and Bass will be inspired by the loops and hits presented on this awesome collection of inspirational breaks and beats from Loopmasters.

Features

• 680 MB content
• 770 Wav files
• 262 Rex2 Loops
• 5 Reason Combinator Patches
• 1080 copyright free Breakbeat samples
• Drum Kit Patches for Kontakt, Halion, EXS24, NN-XT and SFZ formats

Learn more about Loopmasters Broken Breaks.

System Requirements

Serato Sample

Windows

• Processor: 6th generation Intel core i5 or AMD Ryzen 5 3000 series or higher

AVX required

• Memory: 8GB or higher
• Storage: 15GB or more of spare local disk space (SSD)
• Video Memory: Dynamic/shared 512MB (dedicated 1GB or higher for Serato Video)
• Operating System: Windows 11 / 10

Mac

• Year: 2017 or later
• Processor: Intel core i5 or Apple M1/M2 or higher
• Memory: 8GB or higher
• Storage: 15GB or more of spare local disk space (SSD)
• Operating System: macOS 13 Ventura / 12 Monterey / 11 Big Sur

Plugin Boutique Radio

Mac

• OS X 10.7 and later (32-bit and 64-bit compatible)

Formats: 

• Audio Units (AU)
• VST
• Standalone Application

Windows

• Windows 7 and later (32-bit and 64-bit compatible)

Formats: 

• AAX
• VST
• Standalone Application

Important Notes:

• Radio is designed for listening to the radio while you work or for inspirational purposes.  
• The copyright of all sources remains with the creator, publisher or other rights holder.   
• If you want to use any sound material recorded from Radio you will need permission from the rights holder. 
• You should ensure that you comply with any legal restrictions for recording streamed audio that may exist in your country.