In Histories I explore the evolution of music technologies historical milestones with SampleNerd.com! Discover accurate and informative articles that delves into the past, present, and future of music tech. From removable storage media to recreating the working practices of our luminaires.
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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 the whole of the FMS library to disk then swopping them out to […]
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 bachelor of arts in music composition. Born in Tokyo in 1960 he has […]
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. I wanted to experience the working process of those recording from samplers back […]