AK9X
The gritty, dusty, 12-bit soul of a legendary sampler.
A neural capture of one of the most iconic vintage samplers ever made — the 12-bit machine that shaped hip-hop, house, jungle, and early electronic music. Crunchy preamp saturation, sample-rate aliasing, and ladder filters, all in a single focused plugin. Drop it on anything you want to sound old, dusty, or broken in all the right ways.
$49.00
0% offVST3 · AU · AAX · Mac & Windows
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AK9X sound demos · full playlist
A 12-bit legend,
captured in code.
The machine that built hip-hop. The sampler behind golden-era jungle, early house, and a thousand classic breakbeats. AK9X brings that exact sonic signature back — the crunch, the grit, the warm preamp saturation — using neural technology that captures every artefact the original hardware produced.
Drum loops
Run any modern break through AK9X and it instantly has that dusty weight. Kicks get thicker, snares get that unmistakable classic snap, hats get the grit of aged conversion.
Vocals & chops
Crush a vocal chop, dust up a sampled phrase, or add golden-era character to a dry performance. The 12-bit aliasing is the secret to that iconic sampled vocal sound.
Full mix glue
Drop it on the master bus for subtle analog cohesion. Pull back the Mix control, dial in a touch of drive, and your whole mix suddenly feels like it was made on real hardware.
Neural capture.Real hardware DNA.
AK9X is built on our NM2 neural capture technology — a machine-learning engine that analyses and reproduces the exact sonic behaviour of real analog hardware, including the non-linear distortion, transient response, and harmonic content that traditional DSP modelling can never quite catch.
The result is a plugin that doesn't just sound "inspired by" a vintage sampler. It sounds like the machine itself — the same preamp crunch, the same 12-bit aliasing, the same lo-fi magic that producers have been chasing for decades.
Everything focused,
nothing in the way.
No menus, no sub-pages, no tweaking. Every control is a knob or a switch on the front panel, designed to get you to that classic sampled sound in seconds.
NM2 neural drive.
Neural-captured preamp saturation that reproduces the exact input stage of the original hardware. Push it for more grit, pull it back for clean 12-bit character.
Decimator & aliasing.
Adjustable sample-rate reduction that introduces that classic lo-fi aliasing. Dial in subtle edge or push hard for full broken-sampler artefacts.
Full or summed.
Toggle between full stereo processing and mono (L+R sum) mode — because vintage samplers were mono, and that's part of the sound.
Tone shaping.
Musical high-pass and low-pass filters with adjustable cutoff. Sweep from dark and warm to thin and bright, or roll off everything you don't want.
Level compensation.
Automatic gain compensation keeps your output level matched as you push the preamp — so you can hear the tonal change, not just the volume jump.
Input, output, blend.
Input and output trim controls plus a dry/wet mix for parallel processing. Keep your transient detail, blend in the grit, find the sweet spot.
The Sampler Emulation Bundle
Get AK9X plus our other two sampler emulation flagships — S12X and SampleX V3 — as a single bundle. Three legendary sampler characters, neural-captured hardware modelling, and every control you need to sculpt them, all for less than buying them separately.
Trusted by the pros.
Very useful plugin — sits exactly where you want it.
It nails that classic lo-fi sampler sound — exactly what I've been chasing.
Just got this — crunchy, gritty, and full of flavor.
That's dope. And a very nice GUI.
Frequently asked questions
AK9X is a neural capture of one of the most iconic 12-bit samplers of the 80s and 90s — the machine that shaped hip-hop, house, jungle, and the entire sample-based era. We're not allowed to name it, but producers who have used the real hardware tell us it sounds exactly like the original.
NM2 is our neural-modelling engine — a machine-learning system that analyses real hardware and reproduces its exact non-linear behaviour, including saturation, transient response, and harmonic content that traditional DSP can't match. AK9X's preamp is a direct neural snapshot of the original hardware's input stage.
Each plugin emulates a different classic sampler. AK9X captures the 12-bit machine behind hip-hop and early electronic music. S12X focuses on a different hardware character. SampleX V3 is the flagship that gives you six IR models in one plugin. The Sampler Emulation Bundle above gets you all three at a significant discount.
Yes — and it's one of the most common pro uses. Dial in a subtle amount with the Mix control, pull back the sample-rate decimator, and let the preamp saturation glue the whole mix with that unmistakable vintage character.
Yes — 15 days, fully functional. Download the Mac or Windows trial from the hero section above and test it on your own tracks before you buy.
Your license covers installation on up to three machines — main studio, laptop, and a backup rig. No extra fees.
We offer a 15-day money-back guarantee on top of the free trial. Try AK9X in your own workflow — if it's not for you, email us for a full refund.
System requirements
Mac
- macOS Mojave or later
- AU, VST3, or AAX (64-bit host)
- Apple Silicon (M1–M4) or Intel i5+
- 2 GB RAM
- 300 MB free disk space
Windows
- Windows 10 or later
- VST3 or AAX (64-bit host)
- Intel i5 / AMD equivalent
- 2 GB RAM
- 300 MB free disk space
The legend
in a plugin.
The 12-bit machine behind every classic break, chop, and sampled record — faithfully captured in neural detail. The sound of an era, a click away.
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