Samplers / Sampling

Polyend’s Play gets a major + upgrade.

Teenage Engineering’s portable workstation offers retro styling and an equally old‑school approach to sampling.

Polyend’s hardware tracker has got smaller — and at the same time bigger...

Sonicware’s SmplTrek packs an ambitious sampler, sequencer and recorder into a single portable box.

Is Roland’s SPD‑SX Pro the best percussion pad you can buy?

HALion is back, and it’s bigger, better and FMier than ever!

Polyend’s Play takes a unique, and very hands‑on, approach to sequencing samples.

1010music’s diminutive Nanobox range has got it where it counts.

I recently had need of another looper pedal, but as it wasn’t something I’d need very often I wanted to...

Koala Sampler makes sampling simple again.

The MPC Key isn’t just an MPC with a keyboard, it’s a completely new species of workstation.

Chiara Luzzana is a Sound Designer and Composer, known for her use of Zoom field recorders.

JJ Jeczalik emerged as the pre-eminent Fairlight programmer of the 1980s primarily as one fifth of the art-pop collective, Art of Noise, but also in projects ranging from ABC and Dollar to Yes and Malcolm McLaren.

Roland’s popular sampler gets a major update.

The MPC Studio provides an affordable middle ground between Akai’s software and hardware MPCs.

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

Polyend breathe new life into an old technology with an instrument that’s as forward‑looking as it is retro.

Not long ago, I learned a sobering lesson about pet hates and how they can trip you up. I initially dismissed the 1010music...

If vintage samplers butter your muffin, Isla Instruments have got a full afternoon tea for you.

Musician and Technologist Tim Exile chats to Caro C about the creation of the Endlesss project and the benefits of immersive, collaborative music creation in real-time.

SampleX brings the sound of early digital samplers to your DAW.