I just can’t be bothered with searching, organising, editing, renaming, truncating, reformatting, processing, transferring, navigating, locating, previewing, loading, slicing, splicing, keymapping, chopping, recording, resampling, and looping.
Give me a good synthesis-based drum machine or Groovebox any day!
I love ‘em 
I mainly use bespoke sounds so they are somewhat essential for me.
But I love me some synths too 
That’s funny, I’m kinda the opposite. I do enjoy synthesis, but I love where sampling takes my music. Plus the general practice of record store shopping and expanding your music knowledge is good fun. I feel like I’m connecting with music of the past and I try not to be too obvious about my sources. But I like mostly hip hop and house.
I understand completely. And I’m here to help. So if you or anyone else have some samplers taking up valuable desk space you need to get rid of, go ahead and dm me and I’ll give you an address where you can send them.
You miss good stuff!
How do you synthesize a crabs mating call!
I get around this by only using my own samples. I know them so well, all the process work around them is like lightning fast. John Travolta Grease Lightning fast.
I stopped naming them, and often don’t save them either. That helped a lot.
the magic happens when you just turn it on and do stuff. No time for messing around anymore just sample shit and go
@Francis this guy gets it
Same here, the moment I give in to sample packs etc, I’m lost — my samplers basically degrade to playback machines. Volume over quality is a killer for creativity, at least for me.
When I sample my own, though, it’s a much more deliberate process from beginning to end and so I end up with maybe only 3-4 samples, but I know what to do with them and can make them work creatively.
Crabs have a mating call!?
Completely agree on organising samples or using other peoples. Waste of time. So I just don’t bother with it. On Digitakt, I would just get some noise going, start sampling, wait for the 33 seconds limit, hit save with whatever name it decided for me, assign it to whatever free track was available, and get to work. It’s just like a synth from that point onwards, with whatever sample you have as an oscillator. Try it!
I have bad ocd with samples. All oranized by tempo and pitch and genre and instrument type and instrument sub division and analogue and digital and length and. All are wavs only. I keep finding new ways to label.
Keep it simple. No need to over-organize. No need for many many gigs of sample libraries either. Record your own. Design your own. Stick with them. Add a few every now and then.
Or… You know… Don’t use samples.
I get excited when I start sampling and then get sick of doing it a few minutes later. I have no patience.
I sure do like designing sounds with my synthesizers but there is nothing quite like mangling a sample into something unrecognizable yet amazing. I collect lots of one shots from sample packs and such but I’ll only use a loop if it’s one I made here with a synth or drum machine (or sampler!) of my own. That’s just a personal restriction. I’ve got no problem with other people using prepared loops or sampling the music of others.
Most anoying thing about sampling is - rights. I feel I always break someones copyright because I loose track and don‘t know if I altered the sample enough for it to be unrecognisable.
Would love to sample Vinyl, but how? If you put it online there is a big chance getting trouble
i was thinking about making a similar thread.
dont want to use other peoples samples.
so if i record my own samples.
why not just use source and skip sampling.
but then again i had a dream yesterday where i bought a very beat up used octotrack mk1 for 200 dollars and had a lot of fun 
yes, its very hard to synthesize it if you havent an eurorack problem.
I can tell you why I do it. So I can play shows without renting the biggest U-Haul available to bring my entire arsenal with me. I use tons of stuff to make my loops but need only one sampler to perform them.
I’m with you 100%. I love sample-based music, and wish I wanted to deal with samples but nope. My mind just isn’t wired to think like that. I assume it’s because i played piano and guitar for years so when I go into music mode, I want to be creating the notes. I had an SP-404SX for years and never did anything of value with it.