samples and effects with their drum patterns. We’ve opted not to include larger music production workstations in this roundup, such as the Akai MPC Live II, Native Instruments Maschine, Polyend ...

Armed with samplers and grooveboxes from the likes of Akai, Ensoniq, and E-mu, a new generation of artists made classic pieces of work from dusty vinyl, and ‘crate-digging’ quickly became the ...

You could plug a sampler cartridge into your Amiga and be in the dance charts in no time, something which sparked a boom in electronic music creativity. As retrocomputing interest has soared so ...

Hip-hop has existed for over 50 years, and since its inception, the genre has mastered the art of sampling to create some of the most iconic records in music history. Effectively using a sample ...

The earliest known American sampler was made by Loara Standish of the Plymouth Colony about 1645. By the 1700s, samplers depicting alphabets and numerals were worked by young women to learn the basic ...

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Powder thieves and powder samplers are used to pull a representative sample from a large quantity of powder or solids in a container, pile, or moving stream. Examples of powder or solids include ...

I had a Korg M1 synth, a Roland JD-800, an S-760, S-330 and a CPM-120II. Then, a Yamaha REX50, TX81Z, a RX-21, and an Akai S612 with a MD280 disc drive. And I had a Korg DDD-1 drum machine ...

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By Lindsay Zoladz Today’s playlist is a celebration of a tried-and-true method of discovering new-to-you music: identifying the samples in hip-hop songs. In his recently released book “Hip-Hop ...

This is the product's overall performance score, based on key tests conducted by our industry experts in the CHOICE labs.