DiscoDSP HighLife

Unleash your creativity with HighLife, the ultimate performance sampler for modern musicians.

Featuring a built-in wave editor, five integrated effects, and a flexible modulation route, HighLife transforms sound design.

Its unique morphable scheme and 32-bit floating point engine offer dynamic, expressive sounds.

With support for WAV, MP3, FLAC, and more, it's perfect for any workflow.

HighLife gives you unparalleled control, making it your gateway to sonic exploration.

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.

Advanced Playback Engine

HighLife's powerful playback engine offers up to 32 voices polyphony with a multilayered zone sampling system.

The advanced B-Spline interpolation technology delivers superior sound quality, while additional options including Sinc 64 and Sinc 512 match your specific requirements.

The new 2x engine oversampling since v2.3 reduces aliasing in nonlinear processors, improves impulse response accuracy, enhances transient reproduction, and smooths frequency response near Nyquist.

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 with sustain pedal (CC64) support ensures your performances translate perfectly to HighLife's sampling engine, capturing every nuance of expression.

Engine settings now sync across all instances in a project for consistent workflow.

Morphable Parameters

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.

Comprehensive Wave Editor

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 new auto-detection feature helps you find optimal loop points quickly.

The editor supports up to 128 MIDI triggerable cues, including four versatile loop types: forward, bidirectional, backward, and forward with sustain.

High-Quality Filter Section

Shape your sound with HighLife's powerful Zero Delay Feedback filter section offering 24dB/Oct modes including Low-pass, High-pass, Bandpass, Notch, and a disabled option.

Enjoy stepping-free Cutoff and Resonance parameters for smooth, precise control, now with improved filter cutoff display values for better visual feedback.

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.

Flexible Modulation Section

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.

Professional Effects Suite

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.

Versatile Format Support

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 with enhanced parsing capabilities.

The expanded SFZ compatibility now supports comments in sample lines, extra opcodes in sample paths, multi-region group settings, special characters in paths, and case-insensitive file search.

Full ADSR envelope parameter support (ampeg_attack, ampeg_decay, ampeg_sustain, ampeg_release) and improved group-level parameter handling ensure your SFZ instruments sound exactly as intended.

Auto mapping is available when opening multiple files simultaneously, with special auto-drum-machine spread functionality and improved zone renaming options.

Export options include standard SFZ programs and WAV files with preserved loop points, ensuring seamless integration with your existing workflow and sample libraries.