Concept of a sampler

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Ok, I've been here a while but I still don't get the concept of a sampler. Can someone here take the time to give me an indepth definition of a sampler...

I am looking at Gigiastudio, Reason, Halion, etc but don't know if I want one because I'm not sure what they do.

I basiclly want a synth much like the Roland JV-1010, that has strings, drums, bass, electronic sounds, voices, etc. Should I be looking at a sampler for this??? I need *software* not hardware.
 
A sampler works somewhat similar to a snyth/sound module.

It just lets you make your own "patches" and map them to your keyboard.

For example, you sample a japanese koto note, then map it to the middle c key. Now you have a whole keyspan of koto notes to play around with.
 
I use Kontakt from NI a lot for my drums because I can load sound fonts in it with some pretty good samples.

Another thing I did was to record a guitar tone, a single one, and processed it in Sound Forge. After loading it in the sampler it stretched or compressed over the keys when I play higher or lower tones.
So the time of my own created patch will be the same on every tone.
I think that these are the main functions of a sampler. Loading samples, and the stretching and pitching of the samples.

I hope you understood my little description here and when I'm wrong or I left something (important) out, please correct me.
 
The really cool patches are created one off for each frequency at least and additionally for differences in timbre that the velocity variable will impart. Good luck finding THAT beast! But give it time.

It will appear.
 
drstawl said:
The really cool patches are created one off for each frequency at least and additionally for differences in timbre that the velocity variable will impart. Good luck finding THAT beast! But give it time.

It will appear.
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It doesn't seem like sampled based synths have really grown with the computer industry. Where are the samplers with 4 gigs of RAM and 120 gigs of HD space? The idea of computer based samplers is great with the hardware possiblities but it would be nice to see hardware synths catch up.
 
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