About 9 Soundware

Products for genre benders and agnostics, DIYers and tweakers, that squeeze more out of the software they already have.
9 Soundware products are created for FOR PEOPLE WHO WANT TO SOUND LIKE THEMSELVES, NOT A MUSICAL STYLE. While no limits are placed on the range of products it offers, 9 Soundware believes in sounds that don't elicit stylistic biases, or date-stamp the music they are used in. Taking the idea further, 9 Soundware focuses on creating instruments that don't sound like other instruments. ANYTHING that makes sound can be sampled. It is a colossal waste of potential to limit the use of samplers to emulating other instruments. Things such as nostalgia and romanticism often associated with vintage instruments or other sought-after equipment are rarely factors in creating 9 Soundware products.

There are many musicians whose craft depend on high quality instrument presets, but there are also many who like to "roll their own". While 9 Soundware instrument products include files that function like presets, what makes many of these sound sets unique is that they are designed for people who like to POP THE HOOD AND TWEAK. Much attention is paid to avoid cryptic sample names, and the single folder structure is used to take advantage of the flexibility of non-monolithic sample formats (; formats that save separate files for instrument settings and the actual audio), inviting users to create their own instruments that draw from a pool of samples, as opposed to being locked into predetermined sample combinations.

Defying the trend of blurring the line between sound content and software by adding frontend players to form autonomous instruments, 9 Soundware produces instruments for samplers and software components many users already have. The most popular DAWs today include extremely powerful samplers, as well as innovative instruments and effects. They are also usually well integrated with the host program and very CPU efficient, which allow users to load more instances of instruments into their tracks before system choke, when compared to using third party plug-ins. A focus for 9 Soundware is to develop products that allow users to get more out of these exciting environments and maximize their capabilities in the form of presets as well as explorations of less obvious features that can inspire unimagined possibilities.

9 Soundware is based in Somerville, MA, USA.