A as musician, technologist, and sample user of many years I disagree. Your usage of sample is correct, but there are other usages of the word which are alos c

A as musician, technologist, and sample user of many years I disagree. Your usage of sample is correct, but there are other usages of the word which are alos correct, and the term "sampler" isn't specific to the literal digital signal sampling. I have bought and made plenty of sample packs, to be played back by various sample players, over the last 25 years. A "sampler" refers to how the device works with recordings, not the individual digital samples that it makes up- as far as I understand it anything that allows you to recontextualuze short recordings is a sampler, A mellotron very much is a mechanical sampler, though very limited compared to its current digital counterparts. I am open to being wrong. But your claim is a bit odd. While I'd be stoked to see some evidence in the philology of the term that says I'm wrong, I just don't think that is something you'd find.