HighLife is a performance sampler combining precision and creativity in a streamlined workflow. With its 32-bit floating point engine, built-in wave editor, and morphable parameter scheme, HighLife delivers exceptional sound quality for professional music production. Native Apple Silicon compatibility ensures optimal performance on the latest hardware.

HighLife offers a scalable GUI with HiDPI support and is free for non-commercial use. The premium version unlocks unlimited commercial use of its powerful features, making it an essential tool for sound designers and music producers at any level.

HighLife's powerful playback engine offers up to 32 voices polyphony with a multilayered zone sampling system. Choose from multiple high-quality interpolation engines including Hermite, Sinc 64, and Sinc 512 to match your sound quality requirements.

The engine supports flexible mono/poly/legato operation with glide and auto-switch control, giving you complete command over your sound. Full MIDI input triggering control ensures your performances translate perfectly to HighLife's sampling engine, capturing every nuance of expression.

HighLife's unique morphing system allows for dynamic sound evolution in real-time. Each layer contains two internal states - morph source and morph sensibility - with independent parameter sets for seamless transitions between sound characteristics.

Control morphing via mod wheel or MIDI velocity to create expressive, evolving sounds that respond naturally to your performance. This powerful feature transforms static samples into living instruments, perfect for creating complex, evolving textures and sounds that breathe with musical expression.

HighLife's built-in wave editor provides precision control over your samples with granular editing capabilities. Zoom up to 1:1 resolution for detailed waveform manipulation with independent left/right channel editing.

Essential editing functions include cut, copy, paste, trim, fade in/out, normalization, and DC removal. Advanced features like reverse, rectifier, sin/tanh drive, enhance, and smooth effects expand your sound design possibilities. The editor supports up to 128 MIDI triggerable cues, including four versatile loop types: forward, bidirectional, backward, and forward with sustain.

Shape your sound with HighLife's powerful Zero Delay Feedback filter section offering 24dB/Oct modes including Lowpass, Highpass, Bandpass, Notch, and a disabled option. Enjoy stepping-free Cutoff and Resonance parameters for smooth, precise control.

The filters respond dynamically to keyboard tracking and velocity, allowing for expressive performances and natural-sounding instruments. These high-quality filters are essential for crafting everything from classic analog synth tones to modern sound design effects, giving you the sonic flexibility to realize your creative vision.

HighLife's comprehensive modulation capabilities unleash your creativity with independent envelope settings for amplitude, modulation, filter, and pitch control. The ADSR amplitude envelope provides precise dynamic shaping, while the modulation envelope offers bipolar control over filter cutoff and pitch.

The syncable LFO with configurable phase settings enables complex, rhythmic modulations with routing to amplitude, filter cutoff, resonance, and pitch destinations. Stepping-free controls deliver smooth modulation sends, pitch bend, and mod wheel interactions, giving you unprecedented sound design flexibility.

Enhance your sounds with HighLife's comprehensive effects processing. High-quality chorus with adjustable level, delay, feedback, rate, and modulation adds richness and movement to your samples. The flexible delay processor offers sync and cross-delay options with precise control over timing and feedback.

A professional reverb with room, width, and damping controls creates convincing spatial environments. Unique "wow-factor" effects include "Daft" for special sound transformations and "Rock Da Disco," an instant sound puncher and pumper that adds character and energy to any sample. These effects transform simple samples into rich, professional-sounding instruments ready for any production.

HighLife offers excellent compatibility with a wide range of audio and sampler formats. Import numerous audio file types including WAV, MP3, OGG, FLAC, RAW, and SND (compatible with Akai MPC 2000). The sampler supports program formats like AKAI S5000/S6000 (.AKP) and SFZ.

Auto mapping is available when opening multiple files simultaneously, with special auto-drum-machine spread functionality. Export options include standard SFZ programs and WAV files with preserved loop points, ensuring seamless integration with your existing workflow and sample libraries.