What is a sampler?

[hadi]

Can anyone tell me what is a sampler? and what does it do? thanks

 

[ah_pey]

lemme guess...craig from slipknot...wow...the anxiety of slipknot coming to town and u are readin all about slipknot..right? if u wanna noe wad craig do...well he handles keyboard...and...in the pulse of the maggot song...he put in the crowd "woo!" in it

 

[seekz]

a sampler is someone who goes to those ham counters and keeps gobbling up those like pieces of ham on top of the counter...

applies to any other section of the super market as well.

 

[vernplum]

Carrefour good for that. I used to go to the one at Suntec at lunchtime. By the time the women there have learned to recognize you, you can have visited each booth at least 3 times, eaten an entire chicken nugget, half a mini char-sui pau and a piece of fried breaded fish. Sometimes they have yogurt drinks.

 

[soft]

hi hadi

a sampler is a device that allow you to trigger any audio file that is stored in it.

you can either load in the audio file or record something yourself if the sampler has that option.

you can check out some samplers at http://www.sweetwater.com/store/category/c515

 

[bongman]

Can anyone tell me what is a sampler? and what does it do? thanks

you can read more about sampler and sampling from this:
http://wwww.yamahasynth.com/products/a5000/shb.pdf

 

[tasha241]

When I think of a sampler, I would think of Akai's MPCs 8)

 

[Cheez]

When I think of a sampler, I would think of Akai's MPCs 8)

Yes, indeed, sampling has evolved over time. MPC-type of samplers are one type. For me, a sampler would be Gigastudio, Kontakt, Halion and EXS. That would tapped the maximum power a sampler can perform.

 

[bongman]

Looks like sampler now are software based ???

Hardware sampler no more ?
I bought one Akai S2000 recently
but no sample CDs to use... errr ???

 

[Cheez]

Akai CDs are still available. Can also convert to Akai format from other formats. But you'll be severely limited due to RAM. Quick sell it and get a softsampler!

 

[bongman]

what is the current RAM size required to run good samples?

 

[Cheez]

Depends on the samples. To load a template of good orchestral instrumentals nowadays require a minimum of at least 512 MB RAM. You can get by with 256 MB if you use old samples.

However, to load that amount of samples into a hardware sampler will take forever.

If you're talking about looped samples, you may be able to get by with less RAM.

 

[bongman]

haha... guess I've bought a junk
now I'm a 'karaguni' man ?!

the Akai S2000 only has 48MB RAM
and only can load old samples.

Probably software samplers are the ones
that can load current samples.

 

[Cheez]

48 MB can hardly load anything nowadays. I just got a new piano sample (at half price!) - it is more than 1GB in size (22 velocity samples per note). And this is the lite version! No way you can load that into any hardware samplers. With software samplers, I can load this piano + a whole template of orchestral instruments within seconds. Streaming samples load only the first few milliseconds of samples into the RAM and then stream the rest of the samples - this is to make sure latency is very low. So I need significantly less RAM to load a large amount of samples.

I also just got a new orchestral library that is 30GB in size. Try loading that into a hardware sampler!!!

 

[bongman]

looks like I'm a beginner for sampling...
thks for the info