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Mr Gooch
22/11/2014
Matt Shacklady
Mr Gooch
22/11/2014
samplers' editing and modulation features to twist them into exciting new
sounds, resulting in revolutionary tunes such as The Prodigy's Charly and Second
Phase's Mentasm.
The company Akai pioneered many processing techniques such as crossfade
looping and time stretch to shorten or lengthen samples without affecting pitch
and vice-versa. Akai designed and produced the Akai S-1000 which was brought
out in 1988. This sampler brought with it stereo sampling at and at full CD
quality 16-bit depth and 44.1 KHz sampling rate. You could access up to 32MB of
sample RAM and perform all manner of sample editing acrobatics, including autolooping, and even, after a bit, time-stretching. The S-1000 was such a pioneering
sampler that it created the file format for all other samplers to follow. Even today
many producers would think twice about creating a sampler which isnt
compatible with this file format.
During the 1980s, hybrid synths began to utilise short samples along with digital
synthesis to create more realistic imitations of instruments. An example would be
the Korg M1 which was a mixture between a synth and a sampler and was
released in 1988 and included a sound set which allowed artists to play with new
exotic instruments which had never really been heard before in mainstream
music.
In the late 1960s the use of tape loop sampling influenced the development of
minimalist music, the production of psychedelic rock and also jazz fusion in the
late 1970s. DJs began experimenting with manipulating vinyl on turntables which
gave birth to hip hop music. Since the birth of EDM in the 1980s, sampling has
become more and more common and started with some of the hardware
mentioned above but has quickly become more common with computer software
such as drum sampler Ultrabeat on Logic Pro 10.
Samplers have allowed artists more freedom with the songs they create with
being able to take snips of sounds and lyrics from other songs and merge them
together with original tracks to create new styles such as EDM and Hardcore
Rave.