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 a catalogue.

• *The term Sampler will be used hereafter, commonly evolved from the once termed Sound Digitiser, in this context meaning a software tool used for digitising sound, typically shorter in length, but not necessarily so. Not to be confused with Multitrack 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 no multiple track recording is offered, intrinsic to Samplers, although not exclusive by modern standards.
• **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).

Samplers and Sample Editors included in Digital Trackers are not included in the list, as these are deemed a feature of the Tracker.

Name	Software Company / Developer	Year	Type	Max. Sample Format	Max. Sample Rate
IS Sound Digitiser	Innovated Software	1986 / 7	Sampler	8 Bits	48 kHz
ST Sound Digitizer	Hippopotamus Software / Navarone Industries	1987	Sampler	8 Bits	64 kHz
Pro Sound Designer	Eldersoft / Power Computing	1987	Sampler	8 Bits	30 kHz
SampleMaker	Virtual Sounds	1987	MIDI Sample Editor	16 Bits	36 kHz
ST Sonic Editor	Sonus Corporation	1987	MIDI Sample Editor	8 Bits	32 kHz
ADAP / ADAP II Soundrack	Hybrid Arts	1987 & 1989	Sampler	16 Bits	48 kHz
Sondigit	Didier Mequignon	1987 to 2001	Sampler	16 Bits	44.1 kHz
Digisound / Digisound Professional	Siren Software / Alpha Systems	1988 & 1989	Sampler / Sample Editor	8 Bits	40 kHz
ST Pro Sampler Studio	Datel Electronics	1989	Sampler	8 Bits	28.9 kHz
Sample Maker Pro	ACN	1989	Sampler	8 Bits	40 kHz
Sound Designer / Sound Designer II	Digidesign	1989 & 1990	Sampler	16 Bits	48 kHz
Avalon / Avalon 2	Steinberg	1989 & 1991	Sample Editor	16 Bits	44.1 kHz
Sample Wizard STe	Galactic	1990	Sampler	8 Bits	42 kHz
SonicDreams	Daniel Skaborn / Peter Sansom	1990+	MIDI Sample Editor	8 Bits	32 kHz
DaataSound	Pandaal	1991	Sampler	8 Bits	25 kHz
STOS Maestro / STOS Maestro Plus	Mandarin	1992	Sampler	8 Bits	32 kHz
Musicom / Musicom 2	Compo	1993	Sampler	16 Bits	49.2 kHz
ADS-Edit	Chris Biedermann	1993	Wavetable Generator	16 Bits	44.1 kHz
Zero-X / Zero-X 2	Copson Data	1995 & 1998	Sample Editor	16 Bits	48 kHz
Squash it!	Electronic Cow	1999	Sample Editor	16 Bits	48 kHz
New Wave	David Snow	2000	Wavefile Generator	16 Bits	50 kHz
Sound System Series
Sound System S612	Soft Arts	1988	MIDI Sample Editor	12 Bits	32 kHz
Sound System X7000	Soft Arts	1989	MIDI Sample Editor	12 Bits	40 kHz
Master Series
Master Sound	Horizon / Pandaal / Microdeal	1989	Sampler	8 Bits	20 kHz
Master Sound 2	Microdeal	1990	Sampler	8 Bits	30.7 kHz
Stereo Master	Microdeal	1991	Sampler	8 Bits	27.9 kHz
Replay Series
ST Replay aka "Replay 3"	Microdeal / MichTron in the U.S.	1987	Sampler	8 Bits	31 kHz
Replay 4	Microdeal / MichTron in the U.S.	1989	Sampler	8 Bits	50 kHz
Replay Professional	Microdeal	1990	Sampler	8 Bits	48 kHz
Replay 8	Microdeal	1990	Sampler	8 Bits	48 kHz
Stereo Replay	Microdeal	1991	Sampler	8 Bits	48 kHz
Replay 16	Microdeal	1992	Sampler	16 Bits	48 kHz
Clarity 16	Microdeal	1994	Sampler	16 Bits	48 kHz
Pro Series
Pro Series 12	AVR (2 Bit Systems)	1990	Sampler	12 Bits	48 kHz
Pro Series 16	AVR (2 Bit Systems)	1991	Sampler	16 Bits	44.1 kHz

--Atari74user 23:09, 10 March 2016 (CET)

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