Tempo turns Chompi into a groovebox designed for tempo-synced, pattern-based beatmaking ...

Retailer Alto Music has leaked a new portable sampler by Akai that looks inspired by the company’s MPC60 and MPC3000, according to Synth Anatomy. The streamlined $399 Akai MPC Sample will pair 16 pads ...

This week, Managing Editor Terrence O'Brien is obsessed with a new sampler that he can take anywhere. It's got its quirks, but that's apparently part of the appeal. See, the KO is a pretty full ...

Would you love to launch your own Middle Ages band but can’t find a lutist let alone a good hurdy gurdy player? First off, congratulations on knowing what a hurdy gurdy is (man). But second and more ...

Teenage Engineering just revealed the EP-40 Riddim sampler. This reggae-inspired groovebox is another redesign of the pre-existing EP-133 KO II sampler. It has the same square body and button-based ...

There was a magic moment for a few years around the end of the 1980s, when home computers were better than professional ones. That’s a mighty grand pronouncement, but it refers to the crop of 16-bit ...

What is it? A sampler, in ultra-simplistic terms, is basically a glorified tape recorder. Used primarily in electronic music, the sampler allows music to be made out of any sound recorded by the user, ...