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IT Home reported on October 19 that, according to foreign media outlet AppleInsider, Apple has acquired Samplab, an AI audio editing company based in Zurich, Switzerland. According to a list of acquisition deals, Apple will acquire some of Samplab’s assets and offer jobs to some of its employees.
Public information shows that Samplab was founded in Zurich, Switzerland, in 2020 by Manuel Fritsche and Gian-Marco Hutter. The company is small, with reportedly no more than 10 employees. According to information on LinkedIn, it is even possible that only its 2 founders currently work there.
Samplab previously described itself as a company focused on “music production for the AI era.” Before its website was shut down, it highlighted the software’s audio editing capabilities, including changing any note in an audio recording and identifying and editing chords. The software also offered what the company called fine-grained track separation.
Apple has included AI track separation in Logic Pro since 2024, allowing users to extract elements such as vocals, guitar, and drums from a song into separate tracks for further editing. Following the acquisition of Samplab, Apple is expected to integrate its related technology into creative software such as Logic Pro, further improve its existing AI track separation feature, and enable users to edit individual notes within chords directly.