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  1. Sampler (musical instrument) A sampler is an electronic musical instrument that records and plays back samples (portions of sound recordings ). Samples may comprise elements such as rhythm, melody, speech, sound effects or longer portions of music. The mid-20th century saw the introduction of keyboard instruments that played sounds recorded on ...

  2. The Fairlight CMI, a sampler and synthesizer released in 1979. The designers coined the term sampling to describe one of its features. The Guardian described the Chamberlin as the first sampler, developed by the English engineer Harry Chamberlin in the 1940s. The Chamberlin used a keyboard to trigger a series of tape decks, each containing ...

  3. The E-mu SP-1200 percussion sampler, upon its release in August 1987, popularized the use of digital samplers within hip-hop music in the late 1980s. In the 1990s and 2000s, the increases in computer power and memory capacity made it possible to develop software applications that provide the same capabilities as hardware-based units.

  4. Aug 5, 2014 · A brief history of sampling. E-MU's SP-1200 was one of the first relatively afforable samplers. Though digital sampling has been in existence since the 1960s, the first commercially available models were Harry Mendell's Computer Music Melodian and Fairlight's CMI (Computer Musical Instrument). It was the latter which really caught on, and ...

  5. A sampler is a digital or electronic musical instrument that resembles a synthesizer. The main difference between the former and the latter is that the sampler can produce new sounds with sound recordings of real or artificial instrument sounds, instead of with voltage-controlled oscillators. People call these sound recordings samples.

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