With electronic musicians the world over living under some form lockdown in recent weeks, we thought it the perfect time to task them with something a little different – the Sample Challenge. We gave ...

A one-shot sample is any sample that plays through its length once, and then stops. As a result of this, they tend not to be time-stretched, because they’re usually played at their original tempos.

Earlier this year Splice launched a new mobile app called CoSo that used AI to build what it calls "Stacks" collections of samples that are supposed to work well together. Slowly but surely elements ...