If you love digging through dusty vinyl, chopping obscure samples, flipping old records into new beats and turning everyday sounds into music, this new Koala update is for you.

For hip hop producers, lofi beatmakers, crate diggers, musicians and anyone who builds music from found sounds, this opens up big possibilities without the handheld device.

Koala sampler is now available as a VST3 and Audio Unit plugin for macos, bringing its fast sampling workflow directly to your DAW. That mean beatmakers who use FL studio, Ableton, Logic Pro, Propellerhead Reason and more can now flex the Koala aesthetic and chop away.

What Is Koala Sampler ?

If you're new to this then let's break this down.

Koala Sampler is a creative sampling instrument designed around capturing sound, loading and chopping samples and sequencing audio patterns using a mobile device.

It's an easy operation, from loading samples, recording sounds, pitching samples and creating rhythms. it has effects that can take your ideas to the next level and the great thing is it's constantly evolving with new updates.

Koala Sampler VST: What That now means for Producers ?

Instead of using multiple devices to your workflow, you can now use koala alongside your existing instruments, drum machines, synths and audio effects.

The possibilities are endless from going back to old beats and adding new chops and koala's effects to creating new stuff inspired by the quick and quirky koala workflow.

This new workflow applies to Beatmakers, Musicians and Sound designers

Why Vinyl Lovers and Crate Diggers Should Pay Attention

Sampling is an art form, a unique perspective on sound, an intimate relationship with how you hear a recording that other people might overlook and miss.

A dusty drum break, A short horn stab, A vocal phrase buried in an old soul record. A strange background texture from a soundtrack, sometimes a tiny fragment of audio is all you need to spark up a track.

Thats where Koala fits in to the equation.

Flip Samples Into Something New

With our sample packs, made for beatmakers, hip-hop producers, vinyl lovers, and sound explorers from 70s Soul Cinema blaxploitation samples to Vintage FX samples and  soulful, rugged, grittiness. Shaped by legendary producers like Mobb Deeps Havoc, Alchemist and Rza to name a few .

Take a small section of a record and transform it , Change it's pitch, adjust the playback, chop it into smaller pieces and experiment with different arrangements.

Create Your Own Drum Patterns 

Build beats from sample drums, individual one shot drums, 70s percussion loops or unusual sounds found on your hard drive.

Turn Obscure Sounds Into Instruments A single note, vocal fragment, guitar harmonic, or field recording can become a playable sound source, With creative chopping and sequecing, even the most likely recordings can find a place in your music.

Get Inspired Through Limitations

For producers creating hip hop, boom bap, lofi, trip hop, and sample based electronic music, you all know that Sampling encourages experimentation. Using a handful of loops and sounds can be more inspiring than tons of presets in your VST's.

More than just a Sampler: Koala FX and Creative Processing

This new update also includes Koala FX, brings its performance effects into your daw workflow.

Koala features 16 one touch effects, eight scenes and an eight way x-y pad, with automation support, this takes things to the next level for producers who want to manipulate sounds in real time rather than simpley load an effect and set and forget. Experiment with transitions, rhythmic effects, change textures and expressive sound manipulation to add movement to you music.

Included is the Samurai and mixer features, expanding the available sampleing, editing, sequencing and mixing tools available.

Go ahead and get stuck in by resampling with the effects, you can process a sound, capture it and have something fresh to flip or sequence.

Where to Get Koala Sampler VST

You can find the dedicated Koala Sampler and Koala FX plugin bundle on the official website.

👉 Visit the official Koala Sampler plugin page:
https://koalasampler.com/plugin/

The official page lists a seven-day free trial, followed by a one-off purchase, with pricing and promotional terms displayed on the website.

Check the current system requirements, compatibility information, and pricing before downloading.

Compatibility note: The dedicated Koala Sampler plugin bundle is currently advertised for macOS 11 or later, supporting both Apple Silicon and Intel Macs. Windows users can run the standalone Koala application, but the dedicated plugin bundle has been listed as coming to Windows. Check the official page for the latest availability.

Final Thoughts 

Whether you're a vinyl enthusiast, searching obscure breaks, a hip hop producers building beats from soul records, a lo-fi musician creating nostalgic textures or an electrionic producer expermenting with found sounds, having a flexible sampler such as Koala to use inside your DAW is a game changer.

Koala Sampler's move from mobile to dedicated plugin format for your DAW,  brings a whole new appeal to musicians and beatmakers to the creative sample space, and sampling has always been about creativity, curiosity, and finding musical potential in unexpected places.

If you love the process of taking old vinyl, cassetes or even flipping youtube soundtracks into something new, Koala Sampler is where it;s at!

How do you use Koala Sampler in your music ?