Sampling part 1 - The Evolution of Electronic Music
In popular terms, Sampling refers to a digital recording of a short sound. Sampling synthesis is different from the technique of fixed waveform synthesis explained in the previous post on Bass Synthesis. Instead if scanning a wavetable made up of one cycle of a waveform (the process used in fixed waveform and wavetable synthesis) a sampler scans a large wavetable comprised of thousands of individual waveform cycles that make up several seconds of pre-recorded sound. As the w