XLN Audio Life
XLN Audio Life is a groundbreaking creative sampler that allows you to capture real-world sounds and instantly turn them into playable, musical elements. Whether you're sampling your voice, recording your surroundings, grabbing textures from hardware, or transforming everyday noise into rhythmic and melodic material, Life provides a fast, inspiring, and uniquely musical workflow.
Designed for producers, sound designers, composers, and beatmakers, Life takes audio from any source-your microphone, interface, hardware synths, or field recordings-and turns it into loops, one-shots, instruments, and textures you can play and shape immediately. With its deep sound-design engine, powerful transformations, and performance-friendly tools, Life turns the world around you into a creative playground.
Capture, Transform & Create Instantly
Life's real strength is its ability to capture audio on the fly and automatically analyse, slice, classify, and prepare it for creative use. Sounds are grouped by type-kicks, snares, textures, tones, noise hits, and more-allowing you to build kits, instruments, and rhythmic ideas without breaking your creative flow.
Key Highlights
- Instant Audio Capture: Record directly into Life using your mic, audio interface, or any external device.
- Automatic Sound Classification: Life detects whether sounds are rhythmic, tonal, percussive, noisy, or textural.
- Creative Transformations: Stretch, pitch, filter, distort, shape, slice, and randomize sounds effortlessly.
- Loop & One-Shot Creation: Turn recordings into beats, playable hits, or evolving textures instantly.
- Internal Synth & FX Engine: Includes filters, envelopes, LFOs, distortion, modulation, and spatial effects.
- Kits, Instruments & Patterns: Build custom drum kits, playable instruments, or rhythmic loops.
- Drag-and-drop workflow: Export audio, MIDI, and samples directly to your DAW.
- Perfect for Field Recording: Capture ambience, foley, nature sounds, and urban textures for creative use.
- Inspiration Engine: Randomisation features spark fresh ideas quickly.
Perfect For
- Sound designers wanting to turn field recordings into instruments
- Beatmakers looking for original percussion and textures
- Electronic, hip-hop, ambient, cinematic, and experimental producers
- Composers needing organic sound sources
- Anyone who wants to create unique, personal samples from real-world audio
Technical Specifications
- Format: Plugin (VST, AU, AAX)
- Platform: macOS and Windows
- Content: Life sampler engine, effects, slicing tools, sequencing tools, and sound-creation modules
- Requirements: Compatible DAW supporting the listed plugin formats
Why Choose XLN Audio Life?
XLN Audio Life gives you a completely new way to work with audio. By combining fast sampling, deep sound manipulation, and a playful, intuitive interface, Life transforms the world around you into a limitless collection of creative building blocks. From raw textures to fully formed loops, it lets you craft sounds that feel personal, unique, and alive.