Maybe you're right when speaking of "samplers", however modern synthesizers and digital instruments are far away from just playing pre-recorded sounds. There ar

Maybe 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..."