• samplenerd now on Telegram! 📭

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  • Since 1984 🫖

    Reading Time: 2 minutesTo mark the 50th article here at samplenerd.com we have something of a departure.  So, have your polished tea spoons at the ready… 2024 marked forty years since the release of the Bobby O version of West End Girls in 1984! To… Read more

  • Magic -{ colour

    Reading Time: 3 minutesA US. sample collection from a NY 90’s music producer involved in the industry of that era. How cool is this?  We have here a very legit disk library.  OK it might look scrawled and messy to you, but to samplenerd this… Read more

  • The samplenerd.com 2024 awards! 🏆

    Reading Time: 4 minutesFirstly, Happy New Year and thank you to the responders to last year’s samplenerd.com 2023 awards!  Here we are again, The samplenerd.com awards humbly seeks to reward its winners with that little bit of extra recognition.  Let’s get to it! The six… Read more

  • The (transferable) storage evolution of the EII [P1]

    Reading Time: 3 minutesEven with a website called “samplenerd” I realise this could be the most nerdy article yet… let’s go! In the samplenerd.com article The Art of the Process I went to the expense and trouble of recording using samples from floppy disks. Copying… Read more

  • AKIRA ISHIGURU

    Reading Time: 3 minutesThe ability to appreciate individual sample collections is something samplenerd.com is rather proud of.   With that in mind, I humbly present to you the Akira collection featured on the KORG M1/R program cards. Graduated in 1984 from Kunitachi Music college with a… Read more

  • A Yamaha DX1 in Dire Straits

    Reading Time: 3 minutesAny regular readers to the posts at samplenerd.com will know that I’m a fan of preservation.   So much history of artists and their music is often attached to their instruments.  From the modified Fender Squire that Bruce Springsteen still has over 40… Read more

  • Day of the Dead – Samplenerd’s soundtrack series!

    Reading Time: 2 minutesYear: 2008 Score: Tyler Bates Verdict: The 2008 remake.  Action and horror come together for this zombie fare.  Using quick scene cuts, and atmospheric music, so far so unoriginal. We watch as American kids trying to ‘get it on’ find their town… Read more

  • Virtual synth [ real complexity ]

    Reading Time: 2 minutesI think KORG’s longevity in the space of musical instrument manufacturer has endowed their VST’s with a comprehensiveness. And a quality which is sometimes lacking in makers newer to the scene.  I reviewed the KORG Triton VST last year and indeed it… Read more

  • The Art Of The Process

    Reading Time: 4 minutesIn the age of the instant, Samplenerd revisits the practices of yesteryear! In the age of instantaneousness I wanted to revisit the practices of my forebears and create a track using the method of yesteryear. Why bother? Well, two reasons actually… 1.… Read more

  • Synth soundtracks – the OFFICIAL SampleNerd lowdown: part VI

    Reading Time: 5 minutesWelcome to Synth soundtracks – the OFFICIAL SampleNerd lowdown: part VI This is the SampleNerd.com catalogue of the best synthesizer soundtracks listed as being amongst the best of the genre. According to Redbull.com; movieweb.com and MusicRadar.com. Let’s go! Videodrome Videodrome Year: 1983 Score:… Read more

  • Finished is better than perfect.

    Reading Time: 2 minutesLet’s kick off this article with an old joke: What’s the difference between a composer and a large pizza?  A pizza can feed a family. Ah! To finish a work, the short-lived utopia of the artist! We’ve all been there, or are… Read more

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