S12X
The golden-age sampled sound, captured.
A neural capture of the 12-bit hardware sampler behind every classic hip-hop break, golden-era loop, and sample-flipped record from the 80s and 90s. Clean "Good" mode for tight, punchy samples, or switch to "Overload" for that iconic overdriven grit. Drop it on a drum loop, a vocal chop, or the full mix — the character is instant.
$49.00
0% offVST3 · AU · AAX · Mac & Windows
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S12X sound demos · full playlist
The sampler that
built a genre.
S12X is a neural capture of the vintage 12-bit hardware that powered the golden age of hip-hop — the crunch, the grit, the saturated preamp, and that unmistakable lo-fi character that producers have been chasing ever since.
Drums & breaks
Run a modern break through S12X and it instantly has that dusty, chopped-from-vinyl weight. Kicks thicken, snares get that classic snap, and hats take on the grit of aged converters.
Vocal chops & samples
The secret sauce behind every golden-era vocal sample. Crush a chop, add the Overload grit, and you instantly have the sound of a thousand classic records.
Full mix character
Drop it on the master bus for subtle glue and cohesion — pull back the Mix control, dial in a touch of drive, and your whole mix feels like it was made on real hardware.
Two modes.One legendary sound.
S12X gives you the two most important sonic personalities of the original hardware in a single plugin. Good mode delivers the clean, tight, iconic 12-bit character — perfect for tight drum loops and subtle mix colour. Overload mode pushes the preamp into that aggressive, distorted sweet spot that defined an entire era of sampled music.
Powered by our NM2 neural capture engine, the non-linear saturation, transient response, and harmonic content are all lifted directly from the real machine — not emulated, not modelled, captured.
Everything focused,
nothing extra.
No sub-menus, no deep editors. Six knobs and switches on one screen, each one designed to get you to that classic sound in seconds.
NM2 neural preamp.
Neural-captured preamp saturation that reproduces the exact input stage of the original hardware. From subtle warmth to full-saturation bite, all in one fader.
Sample-rate aliasing.
A sample-rate decimator that induces musical aliasing and digital grit. Dial in subtle edge or push it for full broken-sampler artefacts.
Two sonic personalities.
Good mode gives you the clean, tight 12-bit character. Overload kicks in the aggressive, overdriven preamp mode that defined an entire era of sampled music.
Tone shaping.
Musical high-pass and low-pass filters with adjustable cutoff. Roll off the mud, tame the top-end, or sculpt the tone to sit anywhere in your mix.
Level compensation.
Automatic gain compensation keeps your output matched as you push the preamp — so you hear the tonal change, not just a volume jump.
Input, output, blend.
Input and output trim plus a dry/wet mix for perfect parallel processing. Keep the transient detail, blend in the grit, find the sweet spot.
The Sampler Emulation Bundle
Get S12X plus our other two sampler emulation flagships — AK9X 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.
The sound you've been chasing.
The S12X is an extraordinarily easy way to obtain one of the most coveted sonic signatures in sampling history.
If you know it exists and still don't have it — what are you doing with your life? Plugins like this only come around once a decade.
I find it immensely useful for adding a different character to pretty much any type of sound.
Genius time saver — exactly the sound I've been reaching for.
Frequently asked questions
S12X is a neural capture of one of the most iconic 12-bit samplers ever made — the machine that defined the golden age of hip-hop and shaped countless classic records from the 80s and 90s. We're not allowed to name it directly, 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 modelling can't match. S12X's preamp is a direct neural snapshot of the original hardware's input stage.
Good mode is the clean, tight 12-bit character — the sound of the hardware at normal input levels. Overload mode switches the preamp into its aggressive, overdriven personality — the sound engineers used to get by pushing the real unit into the red. Both modes are neural captures of the same hardware at different drive levels.
Each plugin emulates a different classic sampler. S12X captures one iconic 12-bit machine, AK9X captures another, and SampleX V3 is the flagship with six IR models in one plugin. The Sampler Emulation Bundle above gets you all three at a significant discount.
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 S12X 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 12-bit legend.
In your DAW.
The iconic sampler behind every classic break, chop, and golden-era record — faithfully captured in neural detail. The sound of an era, a click away.
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