Samplers / Sampling

Soniccouture deliver a powerful drum sampler engine where you provide the samples.

With battery power and built-in speakers, the MPC Live II is ready to rock some blocks.

David Vorhaus of White Noise chats with Rob Puricelli about his early involvement with the Fairlight CMI and his Kaleidophon ribbon controller and Maniac sequencer inventions.

The MPC One offers the most affordable way into the latest generation of Akai's celebrated sampling workstation.

1010music's Blackbox packs an awful lot of sampling action into a very compact case.

IK Multimedia's newly updated one-stop sample shop is bigger and better than ever.

This eight–channel sampler can assign up to eight samples to Zones in each channel. 24 CV inputs allow for voltage control over Zones as well as other parameters, with each input freely assignable to multiple destinations across all channels.

Does the Strike MultiPad's killer combination of features, practicality and price make it the best percussion pad on the market?

We explore what's new in the latest version of Native Instruments' flagship sampler.

With mic preamps, multitrack recording and mixing built in, EHX’s 95000 is much more than your average looper.

Fun-size sampling mayhem is the order of the day with the latest Pocket Operators.

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

We check out this high-fidelity two-channel stereo audio recorder and playback module that can record high-quality (stereo) WAV files whilst simultaneously playing two different (stereo) files.

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.

Bastl Instruments’ Microgranny 2 monophonic granular sampler gets rebuilt into Eurorack form...

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

The return of the stand-alone MPC exceeds expectations.

I’ve been dabbling in creating my own sample-based instruments in Kontakt over the last few years — one day, I...

Qu-Bit’s Wave is presumably named after the Wave (wav) format samples it plays — up to four of them at once. A 4GB MicroSD card is included, ready-populated with drum hits, vocals, synths and sound effects, easily enough to get you going...

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