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Сообщение от Cyril Syzran

And what a revolution in music?
I missed something?

Yes, the phenomenon of the Internet type:

In the late seventies of the last century created a digital musical instrument, which implements a fundamentally different approach to the synthesis of music, called "sampling". Literally the word means sampling. Synthesizers, which embodies this principle are called samplers, and sound samples - samples. The recording process is called digitizing samples or sampling.
Any sampler itself is an ordinary piece of iron or program. To him was of at least some sense, necessary samples, that he can play. No matter how expensive and professional sampler would not you, the most important thing - it's high-quality samples. Conversely, even if you are a beginner and do not use very powerful sampler, a high-quality samples are able to transform and enrich the sound.
The method of playing samples allows to achieve high realism. The reason is that the playback device, samples have to deal with acoustic and synthetic sounds of real musical instruments. When the sample playback device receives Note On, then instead of creating a sound it reproduces digital sample, which can contain any actual sounds - from piano to a wolf howl or sound of any synthesizer or drum machine.
With the samples you can do anything. You can leave them like there is, and the sampler will be heard voices, almost indistinguishable from those instruments, voices of primary sources. Samples can be subjected to modulation, filtering, and effects of exposure to get the most fantastic, unearthly sounds.
The difference between samples from normal audio is that their length is small (though not always). In addition, there are actually several kinds of samples: one-time samples (One-shot samples), which are commonly used for sound effects and percussion sounds and played once from start to finish, there is no recurrence, and cyclic samples (Loop samples), and called sample-based loops or loops (Loops) - they simulate the entire instrumental parts, such as four strokes drum instruments.
At the moment, thanks to the wide dissemination of software devices play samples, the opportunity to create full-featured music by combining the cyclic samples, while no longer required. You can even purchase a collection of cyclic samples, stored on a CD-ROM in a professional studio.