LIMITED FREE DOWNLOAD: Samplea by Cloudy Samples

Most samplers ask you to trade screen space and CPU headroom for features you rarely touch. Samplea by Cloudy Samples takes the opposite approach, packing a genuinely powerful sampling engine into a compact, elegant window that sits beside your session instead of burying it. There are no dozens of hidden tabs to dig through, just the controls you actually reach for, laid out in one clean view. Available through Audio Plugin Deals completely free during our exclusive two-week promotion, down from its regular $20 price, this VST3 and AU plugin turns any audio file into a playable instrument in seconds.

Intelligent Note Detection and Seamless Looping

Stop guessing the root key of a sample. The built-in Note Detect analyzes your audio instantly and lets you map it to the right pitch with a single click. Dedicated Sample Range and Loop Range editors hand you total control over playback, while the X-Fade knob smooths the loop join so clicks disappear and infinite sustains hold cleanly. An integrated Reference sine wave plays alongside your sample so you can tune by ear against a clean pitch reference, and the adjustable Glide system adds smooth portamento with character to leads and 808 basses.

A Full Sound-Sculpting Chain Inside One Window

Samplea carries far more than playback. The master section adds Volume and Width alongside dedicated Saturation for harmonic warmth and Crush, a bitcrusher, for gritty lo-fi digital edge. A clear visual ADSR envelope shapes transient and tail with millisecond precision, and the integrated parametric EQ with dedicated LPF and HPF carves out frequency space without ever leaving the plugin. Spatial effects finish the chain with a width-controlled reverb and a syncable delay for lush, atmospheric textures, and a virtual keyboard sits ready for quick auditioning.

CPU-Efficient and Resizable for Any Setup

Engineered for maximum efficiency, Samplea is exceptionally light on CPU, so you can run dozens of instances across a project without performance spikes or workspace clutter. The fully resizable interface scales seamlessly from a compact laptop screen to a high-resolution 4K monitor. It loads WAV, AIF and AIFF files and works with every major DAW on Windows and macOS. Chop drums, reverse a texture, pitch-shift a vocal, or build a heavy 808 from a single-cycle waveform. Sampler. Simpler. Samplea.