SAM PL-1000 Sample Art Machine · Portable Line

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 polymetric 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
Overhead shot of a phone running SAM PL-1000 on a charcoal felt desk mat: MAIN mode showing a chopped sample waveform at 200 BPM in G minor above the sixteen-pad grid, with record, play and loop buttons along the bottom. Headphones, a notebook and a coffee sit around it. AI-generated · real app screenshot
MAIN mode, mid-session. Chopped kit on the pads, pattern armed.

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

Polymetric sequencer

Multi-track patterns where tracks don't have to agree on length. Seven-step hats against a four-bar loop, drifting exactly as long as you want them to.

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.

Wherever you are

The studio is a couch, a rug, and forty minutes.

No desk, no interface, no session to open. Record the radiator, chop it, layer it, arrange it, and bounce a master before the tea goes cold.

A woman lying back against the arm of a steel-blue sofa late at night, holding a phone up in one hand. The screen is the brightest thing in the room and throws warm amber across her face; a pair of headphones rests on the cushion beside her, and a lamp glows in the corner. AI-generated
Midnight, one cushion, sixteen pads. The whole rig fits in one hand.
Two friends sitting cross-legged facing each other on a blue rug in a bare flat, both wearing headphones plugged into the same small box on the floor, one of them laughing. AI-generated
Playback is the whole ritual. Split the headphones, run it back.
Someone lying along a blue sofa in headphones, holding a phone above their face, afternoon sun striping the wall through venetian blinds. A ginger cat sleeps on the armrest and a drum machine sits on the windowsill. AI-generated
Arrange lying down. Song mode doesn't need a desk.
Close-up of two hands holding a phone, thumbs over the pad grid, the screen glow blown out to warm amber across the fingertips. AI-generated · screen based on the real app
Ten milliseconds, thumb to speaker. The pad hit is the whole product.

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.

AI-generated A man in headphones on a sofa in a warm, dimly lit flat, laughing as he shakes a phone in one hand. The phone is streaked with motion blur while the room behind stays sharp.
  • 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.

AI-generated A small, messy bedroom studio at night seen from the doorway: someone sitting on the floor against the side of the bed, phone in hand, its screen a small point of amber light. One lamp in the corner, a guitar against the wall, cables and a record sleeve on the floor.
No session open, no interface powered up, no one else awake.

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
Multi-track patterns · polymetric lengths
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.