Samplers / Sampling

Novation’s Circuit Rhythm offers portable immediacy and a surprising amount of depth.

Elektron have treated three of their flagship instruments to a major redesign. We see what’s new...

Could the MPCX make you rethink your whole approach to studio and live music production?

Elektron’s new sampling drum machine is much more than just a cut-price Octatrack.

Pioneer’s DJ-inspired performance sampler is the start of something new.

The return of the stand-alone MPC exceeds expectations.

The MPC has always been about its fast, hands-on interface — can a touchscreen make it even better?

The legendary MPC brand is reborn in a form that aims to marry its famous hands-on ethos with the unlimited possibilities of the software world. Does the combination work?

Roland’s popular SPDS sampling drum pad gains an ‘X’, and a whole lot more besides, in the SPDSX.

Zoom have launched a sibling for their R16, adding a further eight tracks and some neat loop-sampling and rhythm-track features.

Native Instruments's hybrid hardware and software beat machine promises the best of both worlds. Does it deliver?

Akai's MPC has been with us for 20 years now — an incredibly long time in music production. So is the latest addition to this venerable range, the MPC5000, a worthy bearer of its standard?

The world is not short of sampling sequencers at the moment, so what does the Roland SP555 have to make it worthy of your attention?

Akai's famed Music Production Centre goes mini...

Roland take their MC concept further with new features, flying faders and computer integration. Let's explore...

Akai have updated the classic sampling sequencer concept last embodied in the MPC2000XL, but have they managed to preserve the magic formula that made the series a success?

FXpansion's software drum machine takes the 'pad sampler' concept pioneered by Akai's MPC range to new levels.

Storm, the French software studio from virtual-instrument creators Arturia, keeps on improving. We check out version 3.

The latest in Roland's line of MC-series workstations is their best (and most expensive) yet, incorporating synthesis, sequencing, real-time control, and sampling. But in an increasingly software-driven world, can a Groovebox still cut it?