A compact keyboard sampler that you can play to your heart's content
Korg has announced the microSAMPLER Bonus Sample Packs 1 ,2, 3 & 4. This expansive collection of professionally sampled sounds is available as a free download to all microSAMPLER users.
BONUS PACK4: Experience a bit of Korg history with our exclusive Doncamatic samples!
This Sample Pack Fourth Edition is the most exciting pack yet! It all starts with a full bank of samples from the product that put Korg on the map: the DONCA MATIC electromechanical rhythm box. Painstakingly sampled from Korg Inc’s own recently restored DONCA MATIC, this bank features individual tones, patterns and even samplings of the mechanical noises the DONCA MATIC produced, for complete authenticity.
| Add to this three insanely fresh banks from the magic workers at SAMPLE MAGIC (Deep Tech-House, Nu-Rave and Organic House), and Bonus Pack four becomes a must-have. As always, it’s free of charge and completely license free! |  |
BONUS PACK 3: The Third microSAMPLER Bonus Sample Pack Arrives!
This third sample pack features a selection of samples from UltimateSoundBank's Acoustic Toy Museum, Electric Toy Museum, XtremeFx, and Mayhem of Loops libraries.
| Plus there are samples from Fine Music Co Ltd containing a variety of short phrases for different musical genres and two additional banks with grand and electric piano samples. Click here for more info. |  |
BONUS PACK 2: Power up with even more bonus samples with the microSAMPLER Bonus Sample Pack 2!
Hot on the heels of the first microSAMPLER Bonus Pack, KORG now announce the microSAMPLER Bonus Pack 2.
| Featuring loops and samples captured from the newly updated Korg EMX-1SD & ESX-1SD Electribes along with material from renouned Japanese web video producers and bloggers. Check out some videos here. |  |
BONUS PACK 1: Enjoy a massive infusion of sound with the microSAMPLER Bonus Sample Pack!
The Korg microSAMPLER makes sampling easy and performing a blast. Now your friends at Korg have gone even further to kick-start your sampling experience. Presenting the microSAMPLER Bonus Sample Pack. Korg’s world-class sound team has gone ahead and put together banks and banks of inspiring sounds, all ready to load and play in your microSAMPLER today! Imagine classic Korg keyboards, vintage synths, and coveted drum machines. Enjoy up-to-the-minute grooves and classic beats spanning a world of styles from hip-hop, electronic, rock, Drum N Bass, and way more.
| Best of all, they’re free. Click here and download the Bonus Sample Pack, and let your microSAMPLER shine. |  |
Giant Sampling / microSIZE
The microSAMPLER hosts a solid complement of top-end sampling features to expand your creative potential. This full-fledged instrument offers fourteen-voice polyphony, reverse playback, editing operations such as Normalize and Truncate, and a Time Stretch feature that lets you change the tempo without affecting the pitch. Selectable sample rates of 48 kHz, 24 kHz, 12 kHz, and down to 6 kHz let you sample at rates beyond CD clarity or add in that Lo-Fi vintage vibe. Each bank contains 36 samples (a maximum of approximately 160 seconds of recording time for monaural samples at a 48 kHz sampling rate) and sixteen patterns of sequence data; the microSAMPLER lets you store eight such banks in internal memory. The Keyboard mode takes a single sample and assigns it chromatically across the keys for instant playability. With its recessed controls, bright LEDs and informative display, the microSAMPLER is fun to use and easy to operate – for beginners or seasoned pros.
Swiss Army Sampling
Too many instruments simply offer sampling as an added feature. The microSAMPLER is all about sampling, in every creative form. Five distinct sampling methods allow you to work the way you want, to get the results you need. The microSAMPLER offers traditional One-Shot and Loop sampling, plus a number of creative sampling modes – Loop, Key Gate and Auto-Next. When it comes to sampling, the microSAMPLER has it all.
Loop sampling for recording grooves and phrases, drum loops, etc.
One-Shot sampling for grabbing and triggering single events such as drums, etc.
Gate sampling for playing a sound musically across the keyboard
Auto-Next sampling for capturing phrases as multiple samples. For grabbing a groove as separate samples on individual keys, choose the AUTO NEXT mode and use Tap Tempo to match the BPM of the source material. The microSAMPLER will automatically divide the sample equally across multiple keys. Each key can be set to capture anything from a 64th note to a full two measures. This method lets you automatically perform the same type of sampling as KEY GATE.
Key Gate sampling is best for grabbing multiple samples from the same source. With Key Gate, you can take multiple samples from the same source or phrase and assign them to different keys as you play them! The individual keys assign the sample and enable recording all at the same time. This intuitive method of sampling, editing, and mapping in a single step is fun, interactive and fast.
In addition, there's a resampling function that lets you play existing layered samples processed by an effect and played by the pattern sequencer – and capture it all as a new sample. You can even sample while playing, allowing the sampling process itself to become part of your expressive performance.
Sample anytime, anywhere – or anything!
The microSAMPLER can run on batteries, so you can perform on the go – or capture samples anywhere. Both line input and mic input are provided to allow a broad range of input sources including electronic musical instruments, CD, and voice. A gooseneck microphone is included so you can capture sounds with ease. The convenient caddies (located beside the mic jack) provide a cradle for your portable MP3/audio player when using it as a sample source. Truly, the world is yours to sample anytime and anyplace.
Pattern Possibilities
The pattern sequencer uses an overdub operating style that lets you continually layer your performances. You can switch between patterns during playback for seamless performances. Up to sixteen patterns (16,000 notes per pattern, or a maximum 64,000 notes) can be stored in each bank.
The KAOSS Effect(s)
Developed for Korg's KAOSS PAD series, the effect engine serves up a great selection of effects – so important when editing samples. The twenty-one effects include not only traditional delay and chorus, but also ring modulator and grain shifter, and even a Looper that's derived from the Loop Recording feature of the KAOSSILATOR Dynamic Phrase Synthesizer. The effects can be applied to any sound while resampling, allowing the effects to be used over and over again for more sonic expression.
Made to be Played
The microSAMPLER features our new Natural Touch micro keyboard, offering greatly enhanced playability and expressive power. By adjusting the proportion of the black keys and white keys, we've made chords easier to finger, and the touch has been improved so that rapid phrases can be played more easily – and with less fatigue. The box-shaped keys project a sense of quality, and also allow smoother glides and smears. The controllers you need for an exciting performance are laid out on the panel for intuitive operation. The status of the samples assigned to each key (and the item being edited) is indicated by the lit state of the LEDs running along the top of the keyboard, ensuring excellent visibility even on stage.
USB-eautiful
By using the free editor/librarian software for the microSAMPLER, you can manage a gigantic sample library that's all your own. You can back up sample and pattern sequence data to your computer via USB, or load samples and patterns back in just as easily. . Importing and exporting of WAV/AIFF data on your computer is also supported. The possibilities are endless…
microSAMPLER (View Specifications)
microSAMPLER Introduction Video
Beatboxing champion MC Zani demoing the microSampler
***HOW TO VIDEO GUIDES***
Video guide to the five sampling modes
Video guide guide on creating a drum kit
Learn how to use the powerful effects, as well as sampling/resampling through the effects.
Video guide to getting started with the Pattern Sequencer
HOW TO DOWNLOAD
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microSAMPLER Demo feat. BEATSICK.JP
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Human Beatbox sounds are performed by "BEATSICK.JP" (KAZ and HIRONA)
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