SampleByte

Hardware samplers are great at playing samples and terrible at preparing them. SampleByte is a desktop app for the full preparation workflow: discover audio, chop it, organise your library, and export in the format your hardware expects.

It targets the machines beatmakers actually use (Maschine, SP-404, Akai MPC), so the chops land on your pads ready to play instead of needing another round of conversion.

The Stems tool splits any source into separate Drums, Bass, Vocals, and Other tracks using a trained source-separation model that runs entirely offline, nothing leaves your machine. Each stem becomes a swappable source, so you can chop a single instrument on its own and add it straight to your library.

Packs are built to survive editing: each pad snapshots its own audio when you assign it, so an exported pack keeps working even if the original chop is later changed or deleted, and the pad offers to update or regenerate from source instead of going silent.

A ⌘K command palette jumps between Chop, Library, and Packs from anywhere. Available on macOS and Windows.