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EMU samplers

Akai Pro audio

Emagic's soft sampler

Record noise

Click to download an MP3 sample of record surface noise.

Record noise MP3 (256Kb)

Sampler concepts

Basic sampler concepts
Overview

System diagram

Sampler architecture Click here to view a system diagram detailing the hardware and software components of a sampler.

Mesa issues

This section offers help with MESA (the Akai S series sampler editing software)

Mesa II manual
(Akai's official manual)

Essay

Click here to read an essay entitled "The impact of digital audio systemson the working practices of  sound engineers and music producers".

Digital theory

Analogue and digital recording chains Download a useful pdf diagram

Advanatges & disadvantages of digital and analogue Make up your own mind

What is an audio analogue to digital convertor? What are they, where can you find them?

How do audio analogue to digital convertors work? Sample rate & bit depth explained

Dithering Concepts explained

Digital audio theory Click here to read an article which introduces the central theories of digital audio which every musician and new media developer needs to be aware of.

Digital theory

Nyquist theory Click here to download one of Ben Henderson's pdf learning handouts.

Bit depth Click here to download one of Ben Henderson's pdf learning handouts.

Audio bandwidth to
sample rate to file size convertor

A utility to help you determine an appropriate sample rate and data size for a given audio bandwidth.

PC (1.7Mb Zip)
OSX Mac (1.8Mb Zip)
Shockwave (48Kb)

Timestretch convertor

A utility to help you calculate timestretch values with reference to transposition, pitch, time and bpm.
PC (1.4Mb Zip)
OSX Mac (1.5Mb Zip)
Shockwave (44Kb)