Record straight from the microphone, then do something with it. Trim the silence, normalise the level, fade the ends, reverse it, shift the pitch - then name it, tag it, and find it again in a searchable library. Export as WAV, MP3 or WEBM when it needs to leave.
Four stages and no round trips. Nothing is uploaded - the microphone feeds the recorder, the editor works on the buffer in memory, and the library lives in your browser until you export.
Capturing a sound is the easy part. What makes a sample usable is everything after it.
A VU meter, a live spectrum and a timer while you record, with optional monitoring so you can hear yourself. That is enough feedback to catch a clipping input or a noisy room before you have recorded thirty unusable takes.
The two edits every raw recording needs. Trimming the dead air at the start is what makes a sample trigger tightly on a pad; normalising is what stops one sample being half the volume of everything around it.
Fade in and fade out to remove clicks at the edges, reverse for risers and effects, pitch up or down when a sample is nearly right but sitting in the wrong register. All applied to the sample, not to a playback setting.
Name a sample, tag it, and find it later. It sounds mundane until you have forty recordings called untitled - searchable tags are the difference between a library and a folder.
Recordings are saved automatically and the most recent hundred are kept in your browser. Nothing is uploaded to a server, so a closed tab does not cost you the take.
WAV when quality matters and the sample is going into a DAW, MP3 when it needs to be small, WEBM when it stays on the web. One click each.
All four take under a minute, and all four end up in the library.
Record a syllable, trim the silence hard, normalise, then pitch it up. Drop the result onto a sampler pad and you have the sound that carries half of modern pop.
Tap a table, click a pen, close a door. Trim, normalise, and you have percussion no sample pack contains. Tag it so you can find it in two weeks.
Record anything with a tail - a hum, a hiss, a struck object - then reverse it and add a fade in. That is a riser, and it took ten seconds.
Sing an idea before it disappears. The library is searchable and auto-saved, which makes it a far better place for a melody than a phone voice memo you will never open again.
The browser asks once. Nothing is uploaded - audio stays in the page, and the library lives in your browser.
Get the input level into a sensible range before pressing record. Clipping cannot be fixed afterwards, and normalising a quiet take brings the room noise up with it.
Do these two before anything else. Almost every raw recording improves immediately, and the other tools work better on a trimmed, levelled sample.
A tagged sample is findable next month. An untitled one is not. Export as WAV if it is going into a DAW, MP3 if it needs to be small.
| Type | Microphone recorder, sample editor and local sample library |
|---|---|
| Recording | Direct microphone capture with timer, VU meter, live spectrum and optional monitoring |
| Editing | Trim silence, normalise, fade in, fade out, reverse, pitch up, pitch down |
| Library | Named and tagged samples with search, sample count and total duration |
| Storage | Auto-save to local browser storage, keeping the most recent 100 samples |
| Export | WAV, MP3 and WEBM |
| Display | Waveform view of the current sample |
| Privacy | Audio is recorded and processed in the browser - nothing is uploaded |
| Requirements | Any modern browser with Web Audio and microphone access. |
Recording something is trivial; every device does it. What takes time is trimming the silence, levelling it against everything else, removing the click at the end and then finding it again three weeks later. Voice Sampler Studio is built around that gap - the recorder is one button, and everything else on the page is the part that actually makes a sample usable.
These two edits fix most raw recordings. Trimming the leading silence is what makes a sample trigger tightly when you hit a pad - a hundred milliseconds of nothing at the start reads as bad timing. Normalising afterwards levels it against the rest of your kit. Doing them the other way round raises the room noise before you cut it.
Audio is captured and processed in the browser, and the library is stored locally with the most recent hundred samples kept automatically. There is no upload, no account sync for the raw audio and no server-side processing - which also means clearing your browser data clears the library, so export anything you want to keep.
Exported samples drop straight onto the pads of the samplers and drum machines in the rest of the catalog. One subscription covers every app, and a 7-day free trial covers the deciding.
In your browser. Recordings auto-save locally and the most recent hundred are kept. Nothing is uploaded to a server - which also means clearing your browser data will clear the library, so export anything you want to keep permanently.
Trim silence, normalise, fade in, fade out, reverse, and pitch up or down. These are applied to the sample itself, so what you export is what you hear rather than a playback setting that only exists inside the app.
WAV, MP3 and WEBM. WAV for anything going into a DAW or a sampler, MP3 when file size matters, WEBM when it is staying on the web.
Each sample can be named and tagged, and the library is searchable, with a running count and total duration. After the first twenty recordings this stops being a nicety and starts being the reason the library is usable at all.
Normalising raises everything, including the room. Trim the silence first and record with the input level as high as you can without clipping - the meter is there for exactly this. A quiet take normalised loudly will always bring the noise floor with it.
It is part of the GOONS Studio subscription (€9.90/month), which unlocks every app in the catalog, the 5000-sample library and cloud projects. New accounts get a 7-day free trial with full access and no card required.
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