Sample, Stretch & Shift Tab Audio

High-fidelity Web Audio utility for beatmakers, language learners, and sound designers. Real-time pitch transposition, voice-preserved time stretching, and 16-bit WAV export.

Add to Chrome — Free

How It Works

Seamless, lightweight tab audio processing right in your Chrome toolbar.

Audio Sampler
Recording

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SETUP (LOCKED ON RECORD)
Mode
🎤 Pitch Preserved
Quality
💎 Studio 48kHz WAV
LIVE CONTROLS
Pitch Shift 0 st
Speed 1.0x
Reset Effects
1

Choose Mode & Sample Rate

Select Pitch Preserved or Linked Tape Varispeed, then set your target WAV resolution (48kHz, 44.1kHz, or 22.05kHz).

2

Capture Live Tab Stream

Click the red mic button to start recording active tab audio with a live animated level meter.

3

Real-time FX & Lossless Export

Adjust pitch and speed sliders live during playback, then click Stop to download your 16-bit WAV file.

Key Capabilities

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Voice Preserve Mode

Speed up or slow down audio (0.5x to 2.0x) without altering natural vocal pitch. Essential for language learning and transcription.

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Tape & Vinyl Varispeed

Pitch and speed link dynamically for authentic Lo-Fi, Vaporwave, and hardware sampler sound design workflows.

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Lossless WAV Export

Export samples in uncompressed 16-bit PCM WAV at Studio 48kHz, Standard 44.1kHz, or Speech 22.05kHz resolution.

Offline DSP Engine

All time-stretching and pitch resampling run natively in browser memory via the Web Audio API with zero CPU lag.

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Tab Audio Capture

Capture audio cleanly in any active browser tab while maintaining live playback monitoring.

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100% Private & Secure

Zero data collection. Captured audio stays local and is never uploaded to external servers.

Frequently Asked Questions

Yes, Audio Sampler is 100% free to use with all pitch shift, speed control, and WAV export features fully unlocked.

Yes. Audio Sampler is built on Manifest V3 standards and works seamlessly across all Chromium-based browsers, including Microsoft Edge, Brave, and Opera.

Voice Preserve Mode uses an Overlap-Add (OLA) time-stretching algorithm to alter playback speed while holding vocal pitch steady. Tape/Vinyl mode links speed and pitch dynamically—speeding up raises pitch and slowing down lowers it, mimicking classic hardware samplers.

Audio Sampler exports uncompressed 16-bit PCM WAV files. You can select between Studio Quality (48kHz), CD Quality (44.1kHz), or Radio/Speech Quality (22.05kHz) prior to recording.

Open any browser tab playing audio, click the Audio Sampler extension icon in your toolbar, set your desired pitch/speed adjustments, and click Start Recording.

Yes. Our stream-buffering engine processes audio efficiently via offscreen documents to handle extended capture sessions without freezing or crashing browser memory.

To strictly comply with Chrome Web Store Content Policies, direct capture on restricted video streaming domains is disabled. Audio Sampler is designed for open web media, podcasts, royalty-free audio archives, lectures, and educational platforms.

Never. All Digital Signal Processing (DSP) and WAV encoding occur 100% locally within your browser's local memory. Your audio never touches an external server.

No. Audio Sampler respects user privacy completely—we collect zero browsing history, zero analytics, zero personal data, and zero diagnostic telemetry.

No account or registration is required. You can install the extension and begin capturing audio instantly without signing up or logging in.

Privacy Policy

Effective Date: August 17, 2026

Audio Sampler ("we", "our", or "extension") respects your privacy. This policy outlines how our browser extension handles user data.

1. Information Collection and Usage

Audio Sampler does NOT collect, transmit, store, or sell any personally identifiable information (PII), browsing history, or captured audio content.

2. Local Data Processing

All audio recording, real-time Digital Signal Processing (DSP), time-stretching, pitch-shifting, and WAV encoding occur strictly within your browser's local memory via the native Web Audio API.

3. Permission Usage

  • activeTab / tabCapture: Used solely to capture stream audio output from the active tab requested by the user.
  • offscreen: Used to render audio processing and encode WAV files off the main user interface thread.
  • downloads: Used exclusively to deliver the processed WAV file to your local computer.

4. Compliance & Support

For questions, feature requests, or technical support, please contact us via the official Web Store support tab.