Future Music Magazine Autumn 2016 Edición anterior

THE ART OF MODERN SAMPLING
Sampling is nothing new; musicians have been splicing and manipulating
audio for well over fifty years now. It was with the rise of affordable
samplers in the eighties and ninties, however, that sampling moved from
being an experimental technique to a staple element of Dance music, Pop
and Hip-Hop. Samplers have come on a long way since then, however. Whereas early sample-based genres were defined by the limitations of the hardware, from short sampling memories to low recording quality modern sampling tools offer near endless flexibility. From instruments created from vast sample libraries to complex sample-based synthesizers, your base sounds can take you almost anywhere. There are, however, still plenty of things to be learned from the old-school, creative approach of those bare-bones sample masters. So how do we marry the complexity of modern technology to the creativity of old-school sampling? That’s what we’ll look at here.