I want to build my own hardware sampler. Why? Mainly for two reasons:

• I have used many hardware solutions, like the wonderful Akai MPC or various expanders, but they all lacked some modern features that I was interested in,

• There are great software samplers (Kontakt, Ableton Sampler, Halion, etc.), but sometimes, you just want to play music, and having to power on the computer often results in a big waste of time - or worse, an au revoir to inspiration.

That's why I want a hardware sampler, independant to any computer, but that can play a 400MB grand piano sampler set, a 100MB mellotron flute sampleset, or anything else. After some research, I realized that there exists small solutions (with a few MB maximum) or big solutions (the hardware sampler is a computer in a box, and costs $2000 !)

Thus the goal of this project :

Let's build a sampler that costs maximum $99 and that can load sample sets of hundreds of megabytes!