Electronic Musician

SAMPLE SYNTHESIS

Sample synthesis is an umbrella term that covers a few other names, like texture synthesis and granular synthesis, which all have one thing in common: unlike subtractive or additive synthesis, which use pure waveforms (think sine and square) sample synthesis uses found sound. By this we mean that the final ‘voice’ is created by manipulating sounds that have been recorded, rather than created in a much more fundamentally mathematical way.

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This can range from the very simple to the extreme, where results could be as basic as taking snippets of beatboxing to create a sequenceable drum machine, to huge morphing pads that are the culmination of multiple sound sources, with

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