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  1. 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.

  2. A sampler is an electronic music instrument closely related to a synthesizer. Instead of generating sounds from scratch, however, a sampler starts with multiple recordings (or “samples”) of different sounds, and then plays each back based on how the instrument is configured.

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  4. The E-mu SP-1200 percussion sampler progressed Hip-Hop away from the drum machine sound upon its release in August 1987, ushering in the sample-based sound of the late 1980s and early 1990s. Akai pioneered many processing techniques, such as crossfade looping and "time stretch" to shorten or lengthen samples without affecting pitch and vice versa.

  5. 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 ...

  6. Sampling (music) DJ Premier selecting records to sample. In sound and music, sampling is the reuse of a portion (or sample) of a sound recording in another recording. Samples may comprise elements such as rhythm, melody, speech, or sound effects.

  7. A sampler is an electronic musical instrument that is similar to the synthesizer. What a sample does is that instead of creating sounds from scratch however, a sampler starts with more than one recording (or "samples") of different sounds added by the user, and then plays each back based on how the instrument is configured.

  8. Jul 1, 2018 · In 1976 the first monophonic digital sampler, called the Computer Music Melodian was invented by Harry Mendel. It was soon purchased by the prolific Stevie Wonder and used on his 1979 album “Journey Through The Secret Life of Plants”. In 1979 the Fairlight CMI (short for Computer Musical Instrument), was invented by Peter Fogel and Kim Ryrie.

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