From Ableton Live’s stock plugins Simpler and Sampler to Native Instruments’s Kontakt, good-quality samplers should be a part of the VST folder of any professional and aspiring producer. Sampler VSTs are a must in electronic music production, and there’s no shortage of good samplers out there. You can watch Sir Paul McCartney himself demonstrating the mellotron in this fabulous YouTube video. The mellotron is one of the most famous early examples of a sampler: this analog instrument consisted of a series of tapes pitched according to the notes of a keyboard that would trigger anytime a certain key was played. While samplers are indispensable to the creation of electronic music, they have been around way before the first DAW was created. In modern music production, a sampler can be described as a virtual synthesizer that uses a sound file as its oscillator. In a nutshell, a sampler takes any sound source and turns it into a keyboard. This means that if you upload a sample of a flute in C to a sampler (for instance), you will be able to play the flute sound in two or more octaves of the keyboard. The tonal center of most samplers is the note C3. When you upload a sample into a sampler, it will create a series of other samples pitched according to a pre-established tonal center. A sampler is a virtual instrument that allows you to upload a sound file (i.e., a sample) and play MIDI notes using it as a patch.
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