Sample-based Synthesis - Sampling Synthesizers

Sampling Synthesizers

A more flexible sample-based synthesis design allowing the user to record arbitrary waveforms to form a sound's basic timbre is called a sampler. Early samplers were very expensive, and typically had low sample rates and bit depth, resulting in grainy and aliased sound. Since the mid 1990s, however, samplers have featured specifications at least as good as CDs. By the late 1990s, the huge increases in computer processor speed permitted the widespread development of software synthesizers and software samplers. The vast storage capacity of modern computers was ideally suited to sample-based synthesis, and many samplers have thus migrated to software implementations or been superseded by new software samplers.

Sound synthesis types
  • Frequency modulation synthesis
  • Phase distortion synthesis
  • Scanned synthesis
  • Subtractive synthesis
  • Additive synthesis
  • Distortion synthesis
  • Linear Arithmetic synthesis
Sample-based synthesis
  • Wavetable synthesis
  • Granular synthesis
  • Vector synthesis
Physical modelling synthesis
  • Digital waveguide synthesis
  • Banded waveguide synthesis
  • Karplus-Strong string synthesis
  • Formant synthesis

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