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The Samples

Samples are a portion of audio you use in the creation of your music. Although in hiphop, sampling refers to the use of using small bits of audio from vinyl, CD, DVD, MP3 or any other physical audio platform. Actually, keyboard composers who often "call out" samplers may be hypocritical. A keyboards sounds are simply high quality generated samples as well, although keyboard synthesizer experts who use sound creation techniques are much dissimilar to samplers. Like reffered to earlier, samples can be lifted directed from vinyl by using a record players outputs into your computer via soundcard, interface and also in a mixer, workstation, sampling device or drum machine. WAV is the high quality sample format many prefer, and can be captured by data, cd, dvd and outputs from outside sources. Other samples beat makers use are MP3 from digital stores and file sharing programs, ripping from Video sources or purchasing collections on disk or online. Some music software programs only allow certain kinds of files to be imported such as Reason. This "one file type policy" also cuts down on the amount of copyrighted material that is used and more potential for only high quality instruments being used in their software, it also means a monopoly of the sounds. This may be these companies driving motive, to milk mass amounts of revenue from the consumer.