TX16Wx Software Sampler
TX16Wx
TX16Wx is a fully featured software sampler built for producers who want the depth and flexibility of classic hardware samplers, without sacrificing the speed and precision of modern workflows.
It’s designed as a serious instrument rather than a playback tool, aimed at musicians who actively shape, map, modulate, and resample their own sounds as part of the creative process.
System Requirements:
- 64-bit
- VST 3 / AU
- Windows
- Mac
Sampling engine and sound shaping
At its core, TX16Wx delivers a high-quality playback engine with multiple quality modes for tracking and mixdown, ensuring clean, precise reproduction even in complex programs.
Sound shaping is handled by dual resonant multimode filters per voice, offering 6, 12, and 24 dB slopes alongside AHDR and AHDSR envelopes for detailed control over dynamics and articulation.
standout feature is its multi-mode polyphonic glide, a rarity in samplers, which opens up expressive legato and portamento behavior usually associated with synths rather than sample instruments.
Automation is deeply integrated across the entire engine. Every major sound parameter can be automated or modulated, making TX16Wx well suited for evolving textures, detailed articulation programming, and experimental sound design where motion is as important as tone.
File handling, recording, and mapping
TX16Wx excels at managing large and varied sample libraries. Its file browser includes active preview and non-destructive loading, letting you audition samples quickly without disrupting your session.
Support covers a wide range of formats including WAV, AIFF, FLAC, Ogg, Yamaha waves, SoundFonts, SFZ, Akai, and EXS programs, making it easy to migrate legacy libraries into a modern setup.
Beyond playback, TX16Wx can record samples directly from DAW inputs or internal busses in supported hosts. Automatic pitch detection, loop detection, and keyboard mapping significantly speed up instrument creation, while MIDI-based triggering and re-sampling workflows make it practical for capturing both internal and external sources.
The powerful mapping editor supports unlimited groups and regions, region crossfading, drag-and-drop editing, and fast restructuring of complex programs without friction.
Modulation, sequencing, and advanced control
Modulation is one of TX16Wx’s strongest assets. Each voice includes two LFOs, two envelopes, and three step sequencers, all routed through a comprehensive modulation matrix that allows virtually any source to control any destination.
Two-level modulation lets you define a base modulation amount and then further shape it with performance controllers, velocity curves, or automation.
Triggering goes beyond basic key mapping thanks to the sample matrix, which allows two-dimensional triggering based on modulators, MIDI input, round-robin logic, or randomization.
This makes TX16Wx especially effective for realistic instruments, evolving textures, and generative-style patches. Add in a built-in arpeggiator with multiple modes and patterns, plus insert and send effects that can themselves be automated and modulated, and TX16Wx becomes less a sampler and more a complete sound design environment.
Key Features:
A full-scale software sampler combining classic hardware depth with modern modulation and workflow tools.
- High-quality playback engine with selectable tracking and mixdown modes
- Two resonant multimode filters per voice (6/12/24 dB)
- AHDR and AHDSR envelopes for detailed articulation
- Unique multi-mode polyphonic glide
- Extensive modulation system with LFOs, envelopes, and step sequencers per voice
- Advanced modulation matrix with two-level modulation control
- Active sample preview and non-destructive loading
- Direct sampling from DAW inputs or internal busses (host dependent)
- Automatic pitch detection, loop detection, and keyboard mapping
- Sample matrix for round-robin, random, and modulator-based triggering
- Insert and send effects with full automation and modulation
FAQ
TX16Wx is designed for deep instrument building rather than quick sample playback. Its strength lies in advanced mapping, modulation, trigger logic, and sound shaping that go far beyond drag-and-play samplers.
Polyphonic glide allows individual notes to slide independently, enabling expressive legato behavior and pitch transitions typically found in synthesizers. This is especially useful for melodic instruments, basses, and experimental sample patches.
Yes. Support for SoundFonts, SFZ, Akai, and EXS formats makes TX16Wx particularly strong for importing and modernizing older libraries without rebuilding instruments from scratch.
With multiple modulators per voice and a fully open routing matrix, TX16Wx supports everything from subtle velocity-based dynamics to complex, tempo-synced modulation and generative behaviors across pitch, filters, amplitude, and effects.
Absolutely. Between its modulation depth, sample matrix triggering, integrated effects, and resampling capabilities, TX16Wx functions as a hybrid sampler-synth environment suited for experimental, cinematic, and electronic sound design.
