Soompler
The ARA 2 sampler that chops, plays and prints right on your clip.
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- VST3 with ARA 2, VST3 instrument and standalone
- 16 pads with Keys, Loop and stems per pad
- Built-in stem separation on your Mac
- Drag MIDI and audio straight into your DAW
Soompler. The ARA 2 sampler.
Soompler is a sampler plugin with ARA 2 support. It opens right on the audio clip in your DAW — slice it, split its stems, play it as pads and keys, and drag the idea back out. No exporting a single file.
VST3 with ARA 2 · VST3 instrument · standalone app · macOS on Apple Silicon
Right on
your clip.
With ARA 2, Soompler reads the audio clip in your arrangement directly. Choose it as the ARA extension on a clip and your song is already loaded — key, tempo and beat grid found in the background.
- No export, no import — the clip stays where it lives
- Your takes play back on the clip; commit it in your DAW when you’re ready
- Every pass of the DAW cycle is recorded automatically
Find samples.
Pads: full.
One click spreads sixteen chops across the whole track. Lock the ones you love and find again; Undo brings back the previous set.
- 16 pads with real mini-waveforms and stem bars
- Play from your controller, your DAW’s MIDI or the mouse
- Loop, Trigger/Hold, Lock, Reverse and Assign cue on every pad
Chop on
the hits.
Transient slicing finds the attacks for you; grid slicing follows the detected tempo; equal parts keeps it simple. Every slice point stays editable, and Slice to pads loads them in one go.
Stems
per pad.
Soompler separates drums, bass, vocals and other on your Mac, in the background, while you keep chopping. Then choose which stems each pad plays — drums only here, no vocals there.
- Stem lanes with mute and solo
- Global mix or a mix per pad
- Nothing is uploaded
Any pad
as keys.
Keys detects a pad’s root note — even in quiet, decaying or bass-heavy sounds — so it plays in tune across the keyboard. Mono or chords, stretch or repitch. Then shape melodies in the Notes view of the pattern editor.
Jam first.
Fix it later.
Play along with your song: in your DAW track with ARA 2, every pass of the cycle becomes a take, up to 1,024 beats. Each take keeps the exact sounds it was recorded with, so it replays the same even after you re-chop.
- Move notes, quantize, edit in a piano roll
- Drag a take or a single pad out as MIDI or audio
The details.
- ARA
- ARA 2 extension (VST3) — works on the clip in any VST3 host with ARA 2 support
- Formats
- VST3 with ARA 2 · VST3 instrument · standalone app
- Platform
- macOS on Apple Silicon
- Stems
- Drums, bass, vocals, other — separated on your Mac
- Pads
- 16 pads with Keys, Loop, Trigger/Hold, Lock and stems per pad
- Export
- Drag MIDI and audio: single pads or whole takes
- Licence
- 2 computers · online or offline activation · free 14-day trial
- Logic Pro
- Coming — needs an Audio Unit version (why)
Try it. Keep it.
Every feature, free for 14 days. Early Access pricing: every 1.x update is included.
Every licence: 2 computers · online or offline activation · macOS on Apple Silicon · VST3 with ARA 2
Not working on your Mac as described? Email us within 14 days for a fix or a refund.
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Soompler, answered.
Does Soompler support ARA 2?
Yes. Soompler is an ARA 2 extension: in any VST3 host with ARA 2 support, you open it right on an audio clip in your arrangement — no exporting, no importing. There you get the in-track workflow: your song is loaded from the clip, every pass of the DAW cycle is recorded as a take, and your take plays back on the clip.
What if my DAW doesn’t support ARA?
Soompler also runs as a VST3 instrument in any VST3 host — load audio, play the pads from your DAW’s MIDI and record MIDI in your DAW — and as a standalone app with its own transport and patterns.
What is ARA 2?
ARA 2 (Audio Random Access) lets a plugin see the whole audio clip in your arrangement, not just the sound passing through it as it plays. That’s why Soompler works right on the clip, with no exporting and no lining things back up.
Does it work in Logic Pro?
Not yet. Logic only loads Audio Units, and on Apple Silicon it runs ARA plug-ins only under Rosetta. Our plugins are native Apple Silicon VST3s, so Logic needs both an Audio Unit version and an Intel build of our engine. It’s coming, but it isn’t here yet.
Does my audio go anywhere?
No. Stem separation and analysis run on your Mac. Activation talks to the licence server; your audio and projects never do.
How does the free trial work?
Download the installer — no account is needed to download. Choose Activate inside the plugin, then sign in or create your free account to start 14 days with every feature. If you don’t buy, your projects still open, save and reload.
Need just
the stems?
Stooms splits any song into drums, bass, vocals and other — and turns every stem into MIDI. Also with ARA 2.