IT Home On October 19, according to foreign media outlet Appleinsider, Apple has acquired the AI audio editing company Samplab in Zurich, Switzerland. According to the acquisition list, Apple will acquire some assets of Samplab and provide job opportunities to some of its employees.
Public information shows that Samplab was established in Zurich, Switzerland in 2020, with founders Manuel Fritsche and Gian-Marco Hutter. The company is small in size, with no more than 10 employees. According to the information on LinkedIn, there may even be only two founders still working at the company today.
Samplab previously positioned itself as a “music production company for the AI era”. Before closing down, its official website focused on the audio editing capabilities of the software, including modifying any notes in audio and identifying and editing chords. The software also offered a fine-grained track separation function that the company claimed.
Since 2024, Apple has added an AI audio track separation feature to Logic Pro. This allows the separate extraction of elements such as vocals, guitar, and drums from a song into independent tracks, making it easier for users to edit further. It is expected that after acquiring Samplab, Apple will integrate its related technology into creative software like Logic Pro, further improving the existing AI audio track separation function, and supporting direct editing of individual notes in chords.