I was hoping to find a thread on sampling in general (mods, please redirect me if I missed it). It seems like a pretty core part of what we all do with music and especially Elektron gear but watching this video reminded me of how strange and interesting it is under the hood.
So I guess generally what are samplers? Where can we find them that we don’t expect? What can we do with them that we haven’t already? And of course, what would the perfect sampler be?
Thanks for sharing!
Answer to your last question for me is easy: Octatrack!
Just played around with it this morning and man, it helps me “play” samples in a manner that is dynamic and alive, as if I were playing a guitar or synth. I own several MPCs, a Digitakt, bunch of software, Push, Maschine etc…but nothing gives me the hands-on feel that the Octatrack makes possible.
thanks for sharing . will watch it later.
For me:
Polyphonic OT, with higher quality effects and timestretching + individual outs over USB.
The rest is perfect on the sampler side
I have definitely had some good times with the OT. The thing I appreciate about the OT is definitely the way it emphasizes the plasticity through the scene crossfader. There are just so many interesting ways to use it. I am curious, how do you use the OT?
I think it also has a distinctive sound because it defaults to cd-quality audio, and as the video points out those specs are just barely enough to cut out aliasing. So with things like re-pitching and effects chains there are lots of accumulated artifacts. Eventually they will update to a new flagship sampler and I kind of like that the OT has its own personality.
That would be pretty fresh. I’d add to that sd card slot and a more intuitive live looper track for Reggie Watts and the gang.
Loopers are samplers right? Are looper pedals samplers?
Turns out FM synthesis owes it’s origin to the Nyquist-Shannon sampling theorem! I guess every wave table and FM synthesizer probably a sampler in some mathematical sense.
https://www.soundonsound.com/techniques/lost-art-sampling-part-1
https://www.soundonsound.com/techniques/lost-art-sampling-part-2
https://www.soundonsound.com/techniques/lost-art-sampling-part-3
https://www.soundonsound.com/techniques/lost-art-sampling-part-4
https://www.soundonsound.com/techniques/lost-art-sampling-part-5
https://www.soundonsound.com/techniques/lost-art-sampling-part-6
https://www.soundonsound.com/techniques/lost-art-sampling-part-7
A lot of stuff on classic samplers 
https://www.dogsonacid.com/threads/hardware-samplers.792869/
Excellent! These are some great resources, thank you.