Hallo,
Thorsten Wilms hat gesagt: // Thorsten Wilms wrote:
On Tue, Jun 15, 2004 at 05:22:38PM +0200, Frank
Barknecht wrote:
I have to ask: what is a sampler to you?
Well, sure it's not always possible to draw a line.
For me a true sampler follows the tradition of fairlight and akai,
with a mostly fixed sound architecture and the sole use of
samples as first step of sound generation.
Ah, okay. It seems you look at it from a hardware model. As I never
used electronic sound hardware this is often hard to follow for me.
(ALthough now my standard rant on software designed after hardware
could follow... ;)
But even with systems that go beyond that, there are
still
comparable organizational matters. Assigning samples to
note and velocity ranges, combining that with the setup
of the following synthesis structure ...
Okay, to me a sampler is much more general: It's something which plays
back recorded sounds. Note and velocityi, filters and all this don't
belong to the sampler in my model - they are just one way to use a
sampler there, whereas there could be hundreds of others, the most
widely known of it probably are DJ-scratching and sample arranging in
Ardour.
But I think I do understand you now. You're more talking about a
keyboard-synthesizer-like instrument (maybe without keys).
I can't say much about these kinds of instruments, so I'll better stop
now.
Ciao
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