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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.
Chompi (stylised as CHOMPI) is a sampler released in 2023 by Chelsea and Tobias Hendrickson, a couple from Spokane, Washington. Designed to be accessible and screenless, the sampler uses LEDs and physical labels to show its status; the design was inspired by Eurorack modules. Many effects are included, such as a filter and tape saturation.
It can also add effects to the output from the Yamaha OPL3's FM synthesis. The AWE32 was the first sampler to support E-Mu's SoundFont standard, which allowed users to build custom sound sets using their own samples, the samples included in ROM, or both. The card was sold with software for building custom SoundFonts.
The Akai MPC (originally MIDI Production Center, now Music Production Center) is a series of music workstations produced by Akai from 1988 onwards. MPCs combine sampling and sequencing functions, allowing users to record portions of sound, modify them and play them back as sequences.
The Fairlight CMI (short for Computer Musical Instrument) is a digital synthesizer, music sampler, and digital audio workstation introduced in 1979 by Fairlight. [5] [6] [7] It was based on a commercial licence of the Qasar M8 developed by Tony Furse of Creative Strategies in Sydney, Australia.
E-mu SP-12. The E-mu SP-12 is a sampling drum machine. [1] Designed in 1984, SP-12 was announced by E-mu Systems in 1985. [2] Expanding on the features of E-mu’s affordable and commercially successful Drumulator, a programmable digital drum machine, SP-12 introduced user sampling, enabling musicians to sample their own drums and other sounds.
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[3] [10] Sound Semiconductor's announcement of SSI2144, an analog filter chip (IC) using a modern manufacturing process with the same internal circuit and sonic character as the SSM2044 (also designed by Dave Rossum), [44] [45] and Rossum's announcement of Assimil8or, a new hardware sampler in eurorack format in 2017, [43] further fueled ...