Sound Samplers

The first Sound Samplers for the TOS range of computers started to appear in 1987, possibly 1986. This is a non-exhaustive list of those Samplers* and Sample Editors**, to serve as an historical record.

• *The term Sampler will be used hereafter, commonly evolved from the once termed Sound Digitiser, meaning both a software and hardware tool used for digitising smaller lengthed sounds for use in music. Not to be confused with Hard Disk (HD) / Direct to Disk (D2D) recording, later to evolve to Digital Audio Workstations (DAWs), however some listed here, although not full blown DAWs, are the beginnings of what we now associate with the term, offering D2D. This list incorporates D2D software where only a maximum of 2 tracks (i.e. stereo) are offered, intrinsic to Samplers.
• **Lastly, to distinguish, Sample Editors are those that only edit samples, and therefore do not sample (i.e do not create digital sounds via ADC).

Sampler / Sample Editor	Software Company	Year
IS Sound Digitiser	Innovated Software	1986/7
ST Sound Digitizer	Hippopotamus Software / Navarone Industries	1987
Pro Sound Designer	Eldersoft / Power Computing	1987
Digisound / Digisound Professional	Siren Software / Alpha Systems	1988 & 1989
ST Pro Sampler Studio	Datel Electronics	1989
Sound Designer / Sound Designer II (Sound Tools)	Digidesign	1989 & 1990
Avalon / Avalon 2	Steinberg
DaataSound	Pandaal
Sample Wizard STe	Galactic
STOS Maestro / STOS Maestro Plus	Mandarin
Master Sound	Software Horizon / Pandaal / Microdeal
Master Sound 2	Microdeal
Stereo Master	Microdeal
ST Replay aka "Replay 3"	Microdeal / MichTron in the U.S.
Replay 4	Microdeal / MichTron in the U.S.
Replay Professional	Microdeal
Replay 8	Microdeal
Stereo Replay	Microdeal
Replay 16	Microdeal
Pro Series 12	AVR (2 Bit Systems)
Pro Series 16	AVR (2 Bit Systems)
Clarity 16	Microdeal
Zero-X / Zero-X 2	Copson Data
Squash it!	Electronic Cow

Back to Peripherals for Atari computers