Introduction

Creating this blog allows me to introduce the reader in the world of sampling and multi-sample instruments, this blog is showing my understanding of sampling along with the steps required to achieve the same or a similar virtual instrument.

The following blog will contain a brief history of samplers, the definition of a sample instrument along with planning, recording, editing and processing.

I stated above that a sampler is a virtual instrument, that is not 100% accurate due to the fact that a sampler contains recorded sounds of a real instrument in our case a piano.

In most cases a sample instrument contains a few notes recorded with different velocities that are spread using tracking on more notes usually a couple of semitones higher and a couple lower. Let's say, a piano has 88 keys, for a proper multi-sample instrument a decent number of notes recorded will be around 44 each having 4 different velocities, low, low mid, high mid and high. With more notes recorder a more realistic sound you will get.