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Verified 28 October 2026

Samplab

A Zurich music-software startup (Samplab GmbH) that built AI tools for editing audio the way producers edit MIDI.

Samplab was founded in 2020 by Manuel Fritsche and Gian-Marco Hutter. Its first product launched in August 2021 as a free Mac and Windows plug-in for editing individual notes inside finished audio samples, and later added audio-to-MIDI conversion, chord detection, key-locked edits, MIDI chord export, stem separation and tempo and key matching. It also released TextToSample, a free desktop plug-in that generated audio samples from text prompts using Meta's open-source MusicGen model. Its software ran as a plug-in in digital audio workstations, including Logic Pro.

As of the story of 19 October 2026, Samplab had announced at the end of June 2026 that it was closing its service and refunding unused annual subscriptions, and its domain redirected to apple.com. An entry in the European Commission's Digital Markets Act register, published on 19 October 2026, shows Apple acquired certain assets of Samplab GmbH and hired some staff, with the deal dated 17 June 2026 per MacGeneration. Apple has not announced the deal or said whether the technology will reach Logic Pro, and the price was not disclosed.