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enformer
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enTRAP
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Sampling is basically taking recorded music and using it in another composition. It may be a kick drum or a piano riff or whatever. A sampler is a device used to play back these samples. Usually, samples are tweaked so the sound changes a bit, primarilly to make your own sounds out of someone elses sounds.
AlChuck
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The kind of sampling enTrap is talking about is the act of taking pre-recorded snippets of exiting music, usually riffs or grooves, and using them as hits or loops in another composition. I guess that some might use the term "sampler" to talk about an indivdual that works this way. But I think you are talking about "sampler" as in the Emu Emulator or the various Akai samplers.
A sampler is the device used to make the samples, as well as manipulate and play them back as a MIDI instrument.
A typical sampler gives you an environment in which you assign MIDI note values to the audio data, manipulate the attack-sustain-decay-release envelope of the sample, trim and possibly loop the audio (so that, if you hold the key down, the note either decays to silence or keeps sustaining by smoothly repeating the last part of the sound) add effects, blend the sound with other sounds, and otherwise tweak and bludgeon the original data. When you are done, you save the data in whatever sample format your sampler supports. That sound (or more typically, a set of sounds, like two octaves of French horn saved as a French horn sound set) can then be played back triggered by any MIDI controller from the sampler, or any other sampler or sample-playback synth that supports the file format it's been saved to.
Typically samplers are used to create MIDI instrument sound sets based on the actual recorded sound of individual notes from a real instrument, but anything you can record can serve as raw material (speech, noise, animal sounds, belches, etc.).
A sampler is the device used to make the samples, as well as manipulate and play them back as a MIDI instrument.
A typical sampler gives you an environment in which you assign MIDI note values to the audio data, manipulate the attack-sustain-decay-release envelope of the sample, trim and possibly loop the audio (so that, if you hold the key down, the note either decays to silence or keeps sustaining by smoothly repeating the last part of the sound) add effects, blend the sound with other sounds, and otherwise tweak and bludgeon the original data. When you are done, you save the data in whatever sample format your sampler supports. That sound (or more typically, a set of sounds, like two octaves of French horn saved as a French horn sound set) can then be played back triggered by any MIDI controller from the sampler, or any other sampler or sample-playback synth that supports the file format it's been saved to.
Typically samplers are used to create MIDI instrument sound sets based on the actual recorded sound of individual notes from a real instrument, but anything you can record can serve as raw material (speech, noise, animal sounds, belches, etc.).
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enformer
New member
Thanks for the information.
Do you know of some cheap samplers? I just want to experiment with one of these before I go out and spend a lot.
Do you know of some cheap samplers? I just want to experiment with one of these before I go out and spend a lot.
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Fusion2
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enformer said:
audcity is a small free ripper/recorder tyhat works ok and there's no other sampler in the world like fruit loops, right click on the instrument or sound and install your own samples, hit play and loop as directed
the demo version doesnt allow changing samples now i believe but don't hold me to that one...there's many kinds of samplers for different types of audio files, sampletank, steinberg, etc etc...
yeah, it's a bit confusing but most are starting to go standard wav and rightly so, for the money anyway...
giaschel
Hello.
You want a software or hardware sampler?