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Samplers are absolutely musical instruments https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sampler_(musical_instrument) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sampler_(musical_instr
by sehr 11y ago
Samplers are absolutely musical instruments
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sampler_(musical_instrument) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sampler_(musical_instrument)
It's even in the URL!
- gnaritas 11y agoI just don't agree, and won't; it's a computer playing pre-recorded sounds, not an instrument, no matter what this generation wants to call it, playing with a sampler is not being a musician.
- eru 11y agoHow's a piano an instrument then?
- sehr 11y agoActually I kind of like that! It really is much more than just an instrument.
- pkolaczk 11y agoMaybe you're right when speaking of "samplers", however modern synthesizers and digital instruments are far away from just playing pre-recorded sounds. There are digital instruments that do not use samples at all, but use simulation-based methods instead. Also the ones using samples, are much, much more sophisticated than simple "hitting a key plays a prerecorded sample..."
- beat 11y agoIs a wavetable synth a musical instrument? It's just manipulating samples. Is a mellotron (1960s/70s tape-based instrument) an instrument? When you listen to the "flute" part on the Beatles' "Strawberry Fields", is that a musical instrument? Mellotrons are much more primitive than modern samplers. When a musician plays a "real instrument" to exactly imitate the part played by another musician, is it real music? If not, is classical or other forms of note-reading "real music"? If you drop the prejudices and actually think about it, of course a sampler is an actual musical instrument.
- gnaritas 11y agoNope. It's real when it's being played by a person live, not a computer chip in a loop. It's real when the musician stops the music stops, not keeps going because it's really the computer playing it. Making music doesn't make one a musician, performing it live does. Lots of music is made in studios by producers that can't play a damn thing, they're still not musicians and neither is Kanye.
- zodiac 11y agowhat about an electronic piano / electronic drum?