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<p><b>Sample-based synthesis</b> is a form of audio synthesis that can be contrasted to either <a href="Subtractive_synthesis" title="Subtractive synthesis">subtractive synthesis</a> or <a href="Additive_synthesis" title="Additive synthesis">additive synthesis</a>. The principal difference with sample-based synthesis is that the seed waveforms are <a href="Sample_(signal)" class="mw-redirect" title="Sample (signal)">sampled</a> sounds or instruments instead of fundamental waveforms such as <a href="Sine_wave" title="Sine wave">sine</a> and <a href="Saw_wave" class="mw-redirect" title="Saw wave">saw waves</a> used in other types of synthesis.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>

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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2></div>

<p>Before <a href="Digital_recording" title="Digital recording">digital recording</a> became practical, instruments such as the Welte Lichttonorgel (1930s), <a href="Chromatic_phonogene" class="mw-redirect" title="Chromatic phonogene">phonogene</a> (1950s) and the <a href="Mellotron" title="Mellotron">Mellotron</a> (1960s) used analog <a href="Optical_disk" class="mw-redirect" title="Optical disk">optical disks</a> or analog tape decks to play back sampled sounds.

</p><p>When sample-based synthesis was first developed, most affordable consumer synthesizers could not record arbitrary samples, but instead formed <a href="Timbre" title="Timbre">timbres</a> by combining pre-recorded samples from <a href="ROM" class="mw-redirect" title="ROM">ROM</a> before routing the result through <a href="Analog_electronics" class="mw-redirect" title="Analog electronics">analog</a> or <a href="Digital_data" title="Digital data">digital</a> <a href="Electronic_filter" title="Electronic filter">filters</a>. These synthesizers and their more complex descendants are often referred to as <a href="ROMpler" class="mw-redirect" title="ROMpler">ROMplers</a>.

</p><p>Sample-based instruments have been used since the <a href="Computer_Music_Melodian" class="mw-redirect" title="Computer Music Melodian">Computer Music Melodian</a>, the <a href="Fairlight_CMI" title="Fairlight CMI">Fairlight CMI</a> and the NED <a href="Synclavier" title="Synclavier">Synclavier</a>. These instruments were way ahead of their time and were correspondingly expensive. The first recording using a sampling synthesizer was "<a href="Stevie_Wonder's_Journey_Through_%22The_Secret_Life_of_Plants%22" title="Stevie Wonder's Journey Through "The Secret Life of Plants"">Stevie Wonder's Journey Through "The Secret Life of Plants"</a>" (1979) which used the <a href="Computer_Music_Melodian" class="mw-redirect" title="Computer Music Melodian">Computer Music Melodian</a> to create complex melodies and rhythms from sampled sounds from nature. The first tune Wonder recorded was "The First Garden" where he used a sampled bird chirp as the lead sound in the song. More affordable sample-based synthesizers available for the masses with the introduction of the <a href="Ensoniq_Mirage" title="Ensoniq Mirage">Ensoniq Mirage</a> (1984), <a href="Roland_D-50" title="Roland D-50">Roland D-50</a> (1987) and the <a href="Korg_M1" title="Korg M1">Korg M1</a> (1988), which surfaced in the late eighties. The M1 also introduced the <i><a href="Music_workstation" title="Music workstation">music workstation</a></i> concept.

</p><p>The concept has made it into <a href="Sound_card" title="Sound card">sound cards</a> for the <a href="Multimedia_PC" title="Multimedia PC">multimedia PC</a>, under the names such as <i>wavetable card</i> or <i>wavetable daughterboard</i>. (See <a href="Wavetable_synthesis#Background" title="Wavetable synthesis">Wavetable synthesis#Background</a>)

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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Advantages">Advantages</h2></div>

<p>The principal advantage of sample-based synthesis over other methods of digital synthesis such as <a href="Physical_modelling_synthesis" title="Physical modelling synthesis">physical modelling synthesis</a> or additive synthesis is that processing power requirements are much lower. This is because most of the nuances of the sound models are contained in the prerecorded samples rather than calculated in realtime.

</p><p>In a contrast to analog synthesizers, the circuitry does not have to be duplicated to allow more voices to be played at once. Therefore the <a href="Polyphonic_synthesizer" class="mw-redirect" title="Polyphonic synthesizer">polyphony</a> of sample-based machines is generally a lot higher. A downside is, however, that in order to include more detail, multiple samples might need to be played back at once (a trumpet might include a breath noise, a growl, and a looping soundwave used for continuous play). This reduces the polyphony again, as sample-based synthesizers rate their polyphony based on the number of multi-samples that can be played back simultaneously.

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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Multisampling">Multisampling</h2></div>

<p>A sample-based synthesizer's ability to reproduce the nuances of natural instruments is determined primarily by its library of sampled sounds. In the earlier days of sample-based synthesis, <a href="Computer_memory" title="Computer memory">computer memory</a> was expensive and samples had to be as short and as few as possible. This was achieved by <a href="Loop_(music)" title="Loop (music)">looping</a> a part of the sample (often a single wave), and then using a volume <a href="Envelope_curve" class="mw-redirect" title="Envelope curve">envelope curve</a> to make the sound fade away. An amplifying stage would translate key velocity into <a href="Gain_(electronics)" title="Gain (electronics)">gain</a> so that harder playing would translate into louder playback. In some cases key velocity also modulates the <a href="Attack_time" title="Attack time">attack time</a> of the instrument, leading to a faster attack for loud passages.

</p><p>As memory became cheaper, it became possible to use multisampling; instead of a single recording of an instrument being played back faster or slower to reproduce other pitches, the original instrument could be sampled at regular intervals to cover regions of several adjacent notes (<i>splits</i>) or for every note. This provides a more natural progression from the lower to the higher <a href="Register_(music)" title="Register (music)">registers</a>; lower notes don't sound dull, and higher notes don't sound unnaturally bright. It is also possible to sample the same note at several different levels of intensity, reflecting the fact that both volume and timbre change with playing style. For instance, when sampling a piano, 3 samples per key can be made; soft, medium and with force. Every possible volume in between can be made by amplifying and blending the samples.

</p><p>For sample-based models of instruments like the <a href="Rhodes_piano" title="Rhodes piano">Rhodes piano</a>, this multisampling is very important. The timbre of the Rhodes changes drastically from left to right on the keyboard, and it varies greatly depending on the force with which the key is struck. The lower registers <i>bark</i>, while the higher range has a more bell-like sound. The bark will be more distinct if the keys are struck with force. For the model to be sufficiently expressive, it is therefore necessary that multisamples be made across both pitch and force of playing.

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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Sampling_synthesizers">Sampling synthesizers</h2></div>

<p>A more flexible sample-based synthesis design allowing the user to record arbitrary waveforms to form a sound's basic timbre is called a <a href="Sampler_(musical_instrument)" title="Sampler (musical instrument)">sampler</a>. Early samplers were very expensive, and typically had low <a href="Sample_rate" class="mw-redirect" title="Sample rate">sample rates</a> and <a href="Audio_bit_depth" title="Audio bit depth">bit depth</a>, resulting in grainy and <a href="Aliasing" title="Aliasing">aliased</a> sound. Since the late-1980s, however, samplers have featured specifications at least as good as <a href="CD" class="mw-redirect" title="CD">CDs</a>. By the late 1990s, the huge increases in computer processor speed permitted the widespread development of <a href="Software_synthesizer" title="Software synthesizer">software synthesizers</a> and <a href="Software_sampler" class="mw-redirect" title="Software sampler">software samplers</a>. 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.

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<ul><li><a href="Rompler" title="Rompler">Rompler</a></li>

<li><a href="SoundFont" title="SoundFont">SoundFont</a></li></ul>

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<li id="cite_note-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-1">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><i>Synthesizer Basics</i>. United States, H. Leonard Books, 1988. 72f.</span>

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<ul><li><a href="Frequency_modulation_synthesis" title="Frequency modulation synthesis">Frequency modulation</a></li>

<li><a href="Linear_arithmetic_synthesis" title="Linear arithmetic synthesis">Linear arithmetic</a></li>

<li><a href="Phase_distortion_synthesis" title="Phase distortion synthesis">Phase distortion</a></li>

<li><a href="Scanned_synthesis" title="Scanned synthesis">Scanned</a></li>

<li><a href="Subtractive_synthesis" title="Subtractive synthesis">Subtractive</a></li>

<li><a href="Additive_synthesis" title="Additive synthesis">Additive</a></li>

<li><a href="Distortion_synthesis" title="Distortion synthesis">Distortion</a></li></ul>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"> or <a href="Sampler_(musical_instrument)" title="Sampler (musical instrument)">Sampler</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="Wavetable_synthesis" title="Wavetable synthesis">Wavetable</a></li>

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<li><a href="Vector_synthesis" title="Vector synthesis">Vector</a></li>

<li><a href="Concatenative_synthesis" title="Concatenative synthesis">Concatenative</a></li></ul>

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<ul><li><a href="Banded_waveguide_synthesis" title="Banded waveguide synthesis">Banded waveguide</a></li>

<li><a href="Digital_waveguide_synthesis" title="Digital waveguide synthesis">Digital waveguide</a></li>

<li><a href="Direct_digital_synthesizer" class="mw-redirect" title="Direct digital synthesizer">Direct digital</a></li>

<li><a href="Formant_synthesis" class="mw-redirect" title="Formant synthesis">Formant</a></li>

<li><a href="Karplus%E2%80%93Strong_string_synthesis" title="Karplus–Strong string synthesis">Karplus–Strong string</a></li></ul>

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<ul><li><a href="Graphical_sound" title="Graphical sound">Graphical sound</a></li>

<li><a href="Modular_synthesizer" title="Modular synthesizer">Modular</a></li></ul>

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<ul><li><a href="Analog_modeling_synthesizer" title="Analog modeling synthesizer">Analog modeling</a></li>

<li><a href="Scanned_synthesis" title="Scanned synthesis">Scanned synthesis</a></li>

<li><a href="Software_synthesizer" title="Software synthesizer">Software synthesizer</a></li></ul>

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