Mono SamplingĪnother restriction of early sampling gear was that it could only sample in Mono. This imparted some subtle artefacts in the sample, giving it a less clean more “sampled” feel. Once inside the sampler, the sample could then be pitched back down to its original speed.
One creative technique early vinyl samplers used was to sample the record at a pitched up speed – often sampling a 33rpm record at 45rpm – so that the sampling time was shortened. With the limited sampling time, time literally was of the essence – so any way to shorten sampling time was good. This limited sampling time resulted in a creative workaround that many of us wouldn’t even consider today – and this contributed to the “classic” sound. This translated into a default sampling max time of about 20 seconds, with the upgrade pushing you to the nose-bleed heights of about 2 minutes. I am going to date myself here and say that my first sampler – an Ensoniq ASR-10 which I still lovingly own – shipped with 2MiB of internal memory. In the early days of sampling, this was a huge issue. Cheap memory and powerful computers/drives make it a non-issue. These days it’s likely you don’t even think of sampling time – there’s no reason why most of you couldn’t sample a whole track without any issues. We work with very little limitation from our gear these days, and while that seems great, it’s actually the limitation early producers faced that contributed to the sound we associate with early classic Hip Hop and House. One of the main reasons for this is down to modern gear itself and how it affects the whole production process. While many new samplers come with the option to switch to a “vintage” mode, simply doing this is only a step in the direction of achieving this sound. Sampling continues to play a big part in all current forms of club and classic Hip-Hop production, and with the resurgence of hardware/software based counterparts of the classic sampling kit of vintage samplers (notably Maschine and the MPC Rennaissance), a whole new generation of sampling is on its way.Īs a part of this re-kindled interest in sampling, many younger producers are also looking for sampling techniques to emulate the sound of early classics and get the sound of the “golden era” of Dance and Hip-Hop.
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