# Apple Buys AI Audio Editing App Samplab

- Source: MacRumors
- Published: 2026-10-19T22:35:24+00:00
- Category: Tech
- Original: https://www.macrumors.com/2026/10/19/apple-samplab-acquisition/
- Canonical: https://groundlevelnews.com/story/apple-buys-ai-audio-editing-app-samplab-a688f8/

Apple acquired AI audio editing app Samplab in June, according to a notice shared today by the European Commission. Samplab offered a desktop app and plugins for converting audio to MIDI, detecting and editing chords, stem splitting for isolating different parts of a song, and editing notes in polyphonic audio without affecting the timbre of the original. Apple could fold the company's tools into

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