Free · In your browser
An online sampler that takes your own sounds.
TAIL is a free browser sampler: 16 pads across 8 banks, a step sequencer, and mutegroups. Load your own audio, play it with your fingers, and export the beat. No install, no signup, no upload.
Open the samplerHow it works
From a cold tab to a beat
Open it
The sampler is a link, not a download. It boots in the tab you already have open — on a laptop, a tablet or a phone.
Load your sounds
Drag audio onto a pad, or start from a kit. Chop something longer in the sample chopper and the slices land on the pads in order.
Play and sequence
Finger-drum the pads, then tap a pattern into the step sequencer. Mutegroups behave the way an open and closed hat should.
Why a browser sampler
What an online sampler is actually good for
A sampler you don't have to install
No DAW, no plugin format, no license file. If the machine has a browser and speakers, it has a sampler — which is the whole reason people search for one online in the first place.
Your own sounds, not a fixed sound bank
Most free online samplers are a grid of somebody else's samples. This one takes your files: a bounce, a voice memo, a chopped break, a field recording.
A sketchpad next to your DAW
Catch an idea in the browser in the time it takes a session to load, export it, and drag it into the project — or load the whole kit into KITE and keep going.
Sampling on a phone
The pads, the waveform and the sequencer are built for a touchscreen, so the browser sampler is the same instrument on a phone as on a desktop — not a shrunken desktop UI.
Chops → pads
Where the sounds come from
A sampler is only as good as what you feed it. The sample chopper sits on the front of this one: drop in a break, a loop or a vocal, cut it on the waveform, and hit Load chops in TAIL — the first sixteen slices land on the pads in order, in the same tab. No zip file, no re-importing, no folder to tidy up afterwards.
If you'd rather start from something ready-made, the kits are there, and the speed changer will pitch a source down before you chop it. Everything runs on the same engine, in the same tab.
When a sketch outgrows the browser, the whole kit — pads, banks and sequences — loads into KITE as a plugin, so nothing is a dead end.
More TAIL tools
Everything else that runs in the same tab
Sample chopper
Cut a break, a loop or a vocal on the waveform and send the chops to the pads.
MPC-style sampler online
Pads, banks and a step sequencer — the MPC workflow, in a browser tab.
Common questions about the online sampler
Yes — free to open and play in the browser, with no signup to play and no export limit. A free account unlocks saving and loading projects. There is a native iOS and Android app as a $3.99 one-time purchase if you want TAIL on your home screen and offline.
That's the point of it. Drag any audio file onto a pad and it is playable immediately. To cut a longer file into pieces first, use the sample chopper — the slices load straight onto the pads in order.
16 pads per bank and 8 banks, so 128 sounds in one instrument, plus mutegroups so a closed hat cuts off an open one the way it should.
Yes. The whole interface is touch-first — same instrument on a phone, a tablet and a laptop, no separate mobile version.
Export works straight away — bounce your beat out of the browser whenever you like. Saving and reloading a project keeps a free account behind it, so the session is still there tomorrow. And the whole kit — pads, banks and sequences — loads into KITE as a plugin when a sketch turns into a track.
No. Files are decoded locally by Web Audio and stay in the tab. There is no upload step, which is also why there is no queue and nothing to sign into before you can play.