GearCast - Glossary Definition for Sampler

Definition for Sampler

A device that records audio, and maps it across a controllerDefinition:
1. A MIDI device (keyboard, guitar with appropriate interface, etc.) that alters parameters in a synthesizer or other MIDI sound generator. 2. A device (e.g., modulation wheel, pitch bender, ribbon controller, etc.) that varies some specific parameter in a synthesizer or other MIDI sound generator. like a keyboard or drum pad for playback manually, or from a computer. Commonly recorded sounds are musical instrument notes and sound effects. Sampler has also come to mean devices that don't necessarily record audio, but can load digitalDefinition:
A signal or data expressed as series of the digits 0 and 1, typically represented by values of a physical quantity such as voltage or magnetic polarization. audio files for mapping and playback.