Mobile sampler · iOS & Android

Start the beat on the couch.
Finish the track there too.

SAM PL-1000 is built like a machine, not a menu. Non-destructive layers on every pad, an FX chain per pad, a step and grid sequencer and a real song timeline — so the loop you hummed into your mic at midnight can leave as a finished master.

Join the closed beta What it does
  • <10 mspad latency target
  • 16pads, layered
  • 1price, no tiers
SAM PL-1000 on iPad in landscape, MAIN mode: a kick waveform on the grey LCD, a channel strip, sixteen dark rubber pads and the pad actions.
The same MAIN screen on iPhone: waveform, level, pan and tune, sixteen pads and the transport keys.
MAIN mode on iPad and iPhone — real screenshots from the current beta build.

The gap we build in

Fast samplers can't finish.
Mobile DAWs don't feel like anything.

Sketchpads

Immediate and fun, until the fourth voice steals the third, chops go mono, and layering means destructive resampling. The idea survives. The track doesn't.

Mobile DAWs

Deep enough to finish, built for a tablet and a manual. You stop playing an instrument and start operating a spreadsheet with a timeline attached.

SAM PL-1000

Hardware feel with a finishing room behind it. Layers, inserts, song arrangement and mixer groups — reached through practice, not through a wizard.

Front panel

Everything the loop needs to become a record.

01

Layers that stay editable

Stack as many samples on one pad as the part needs. Each layer keeps its own ADSR and filter, and none of it is ever printed down. Change your mind at bar 64.

02

An FX chain per pad

EQ, filter, compressor, delay and reverb as inserts on the pad itself — not a shared send you have to ration between the kick and the vocal chop.

03

Step and grid sequencer

Program a pattern step by step, or draw every hit on the grid. Each note carries its own velocity, pitch, decay, filter and pan, so one hi-hat line can breathe like a played part.

04

Linear song timeline

Arrange patterns end to end on a real timeline. Intro, drop, bridge, outro — the part of the job phones have always handed back to a laptop.

05

Mixer groups, with metering

Assignable groups carrying level, pan, EQ, inserts and sidechain — metered in LUFS after per-pad FX, so what you export is what you heard.

06

On-device intelligence

BPM and key detected on import. Stem separation pulls vocals, bass, drums and melody apart on the handset. Airplane mode, no upload, no queue.

Real screens

This is the actual app.

Screenshots from the current beta build, on iPhone and on iPad in landscape. Nothing here is a mock-up.

SAM PL-1000 on iPad in landscape, MAIN mode: a kick waveform across the top LCD, a level, tune and pan strip on the left, sixteen dark rubber pads in the middle, and pad actions such as record, layers, stems, FX chain and resample on the right.
MAIN on iPad. Pads in the middle, the channel strip on the left, every pad action one tap away on the right.
SAM PL-1000 on iPhone, SEQ mode in step view: nine tracks with sixteen steps each, lit steps in orange, and mute and solo keys on every track.
SEQ, step view. Sixteen steps a track, mute and solo on every lane.
SAM PL-1000 on iPhone, MIX mode: four group faders with meters, pan knobs, EQ and FX slots, and a master channel with glue and limit compressors and a true-peak readout.
MIX. Four groups with EQ and FX, a master with glue and limit, metered in LUFS.
SAM PL-1000 on iPad in landscape, song mode: a sixteen-bar timeline with intro, verse, hook, fill and hook sections built from patterns, and the four patterns beat, fill, groove and break listed below.
Song mode. Patterns laid end to end: intro, verse, hook, fill, hook. Sixteen bars, finished on the device.

Tour

Seven screens, one machine.

The store listing as it will ship — every screen is the real app. Swipe or scroll sideways through it.

App Store screenshot, “Sample. Chop. Play.”. MAIN: sixteen pads, four banks and a waveform to crop and chop.
App Store screenshot, “Program beats step by step”. SEQ step view: a sixteen-step sequencer with lit steps per track.
App Store screenshot, “Draw every hit”. SEQ grid view: one row per pad, notes drawn with velocity, pitch and pan.
App Store screenshot, “Arrange the whole song”. SEQ song view: patterns chained into intro, verse, hook and fill.
App Store screenshot, “Mix it like a console”. MIX: group faders, EQ and FX, glue and a limiter on the master.
App Store screenshot, “Studio-grade effects”. The PL-2A opto compressor with its VU meter, one of the per-pad effects.
App Store screenshot, “Your samples, one tap away”. BROWSE: search, preview and drag samples straight onto a pad.

Shake capture

Shake the phone.
That's the take.

Put a shaker hit on a pad, press record, and play the part with the phone itself. Every shake fires the sound at the velocity you gave it, and the whole performance renders down to a new sample on that pad — not a loop you triggered, a part you played.

Count-in on your project's tempo, a metronome if you want one, the pattern running underneath as a reference, and it stops itself when the pattern comes round.

Tilt and rotation map to volume, filter, pitch or pan while you play. The phone is the controller as well as the instrument.

  • Shakevelocity-sensitive, per hit
  • Tiltvolume · filter · pitch · pan
  • Rendersto a real sample on the pad

A drum machine on a desk cannot do this. It doesn't know where it is.

Back panel

Specification

Model
SAM PL-1000 · Portable Line
Platform
iOS · Android
Engine
Native C++ / JUCE audio core
Pad grid
16 pads · multi-layer, non-destructive
Per-layer
ADSR envelope · filter
Pad inserts
EQ · filter · compressor · delay · reverb
Sequencer
Step and grid views · per-note velocity, pitch, decay, filter, pan
Arrangement
Linear song timeline
Mixer
Assignable groups · sidechain · LUFS metering
Input
File import · microphone recording
Analysis
On-device BPM · key · stem separation
Export
WAV · MP3

One price, paid once, for every feature on this page. No free tier, no Pro tier, nothing held back behind an upgrade — there is only one version of SAM PL-1000, and buying it gets you all of it. No subscription, not now and not later.