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I remembered when reading about the first sampler and thinking "wow, finally... that's my instrument!" But all samplers had this stupid limitation that a sound could not be played back instantly after being sampled. Then I read about this guy calling himself Mixmaster Morris saying that he was doing "live sampling" and I thought he had found a cure for that limitation - but a quick check on his music proved me wrong about that. In the absence of real live sampling devices we had to live with delay units customized with a feedback loop, which a bit of a drag (and still is). My vision of a real live sampler is a device that integrates sampling and patten sequencing with all editing accessible during playback as well as during recording. The Octatrack by Elektron seems close but it amazes me that not more developers make software like this! The Mobius software is a beast in its own right here, thanks to its built-in scripting, but the funny thing is that it was not designed for doing what it actually is best at doing ;-) It seems random plays a big part in how new groundbreaking instruments come into this world. The EDP, born out of performing musician's vision, is an exception though... well actually not, since one of its coolest features, "loop windowing", first was regarded a bug to be terminated from the code ;-) Greetings from Sweden Per Boysen www.perboysen.com http://www.youtube.com/perboysen On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 2:50 PM, Todd Reynolds <toddreyn@gmail.com> wrote: > I had always assumed that when Samplers came into heavy usage that some > folks felt the need to distinguish the difference between the sampling > of sound to be used as instrument replacement and that specific > technique, and the the sampling of longer phrases. I remember my first > 'looping performance' where I saw Jean-Luc Ponty call it sampling, and > even I was confused as the Sampler proper had just come into vogue. But > you're right, Per, live sampling is technically what it is! > > Sent from my iPhone > > On Nov 7, 2011, at 8:39 AM, Per Boysen <perboysen@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> >> >> By the way, where does this term "live looping" come from, when the >> art form actually is "live sampling"? >> >> >> > >