samplers Flashcards
who introduced Musique Concrete and when?
Pierre Shaeffer and Pierre Henry, 1950’s
what happened in the 1960’s?
BBC Radio phonics workshops
when was mellotron created and what has it been used in?
1962, The first sampler, plays samples using tape playback. Used on the Beatles track ‘Strawberry Fields’
when was the synclavier created an who used it?
1978, digital sampler used on lots of 1980s tracks including Michael Jackson’s ‘Thriller’
in 1979 what sampler did Peter Gabriel use extensively`?
fairlight CMI
what was created in 1981?
E-MU Emulator
when was the Akai S900?
1986
what is a sampler?
a musical instrument that stores recorded sounds digitally
give some features of a typical sampler
- playback sounds on a keyboard using MIDI
- sounds can be played back at different pitches by speeding up or slowing down the recording
- each key on the keyboard can be assigned a different sample
what is a way of overcoming the limitations of stretching a single sampled recording?
multi-sampling
what are the boundaries of the velocity scale?
0-127, playing louder will trigger different samples
what does Nyquist suggest?
the sample rate is double the frequency response
what is a problem with low sample rates?
they give a lower quality of sound because high frequencies are not captured
what is a typical sample rate?
44100Hz/ 44.1kHz
how does bit depth work?
resolution, lower bit depth reduces the signal to noise ratio and also gives a brittle/ crunchy quality to the sound
sought after in lo-fi recordings
