S-S-SAMPLE by Heikki Julkunen Now don't get your knickers (or boxer shorts) in a twist. Heikki Julkunen's sampler is no menotronic, attacked, faded, sycronic, suthetic, 85 band, C-5, Fairlight, deluxe sampler ... well not quite anyway. It's just a simple, no hassle, but still quite effective way to sample your fave sounds and music. I DUNNO WHAT SAMPLING IS Not knowing what sampling is, is totally unhip. You've got to be some kind of moron not to know what sampling is ... so here's Phil to tell you. Thanx, Dave. Sampling (or more correctly,Sound Sampling or Digitising) is the technique of digitally recording a sound or short burst of music into the memory of your computer. When you record a sound onto a normal tape, the different levels of sound are etched continuously onto the magnetic surface in a sort of wavey line. When you record a sound digitally, however, the sound is stored in the memory of the computer as a string of digital values (like 34,36,49 ...) roughly the same as the wavey line we just mentioned but separated into discrete steps. The length of sound is governed by the amount of memory available, and the quality of the sound by the amount of steps you cram in, called the "sampling rate". Got that? Okay, back to you, Dave. METHOD Well what can I say? Type in the short machine code, save it, with SAVE "SAMPLERC" CODE 32768,96, type in the Basic prog, and save that with SAVE "BASIC" LINE 10. Then RUN it. S-S-SAMPLING To sample sound, remove the Mic lead from your tape recorder and computer, but leave your Ear lead connected. Follow the on-screen instructions and have your tape playing before you sample. The length of the product can range from two to five seconds. Dum-dum-dumdumdum-dum! That was - in true Blue Peter style - a drum beat I prepared earlier. Aaarrrghhhh! That was a sampled screen. Pant! Groan! ... ahem, must have left that flippin' sampler on again (blush)!