Tech "It's the most influential drum machine ever created – and has likely featured on more records than any other": A history of Roland drum machines, from the TR-77 to the TR-1000 Drum Machines In ...

"For my sins, I have a fairly big modular synth setup and lots of very old samplers. For No Going Back, I used tons of hardware from the old Akai S612s to all sorts of vintage bits and pieces, ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Do you miss the grit and colour that you used to get from your old hardware sampler? If so, d16's ...

What is it? A sampler, in ultra-simplistic terms, is basically a glorified tape recorder. Used primarily in electronic music, the sampler allows music to be made out of any sound recorded by the user, ...

This week we'll look at what's been going on recently with LinuxSampler, a very cool software audio sampler. I have to say at the outset that this article was tough to write, I was just having far too ...

There are samplers on the market that can cater for all of these use cases, some that are geared towards one specific purpose, and some that sit somewhere in between. Some offer an astonishing depth ...