In the twenty-five years since the first commercially available sampler hit the market (namely the Fairlight, costing a cool £25,000), the increase in the quality and length of sampling available has been matched by a decrease in the amount of time required to process and create loops from this sampled material.

In 1977, an 8kB 8-bit at 8kHz sample sounded dreadful, lasted about half a second and took about half an hour to get a poor-quality loop with (on a £25,000 machine). In 1987, a 256kB 12-bit sample at 32kHz sounded a fair bit better, lasted 3 or 4 seconds and could be looped by an expert in about five minutes (and only cost a couple of thousand pounds). By 1992, things were a lot better; a 1MB16-bit stereo sample at 44.1kHz sounded pretty damn good, lasted 6

seconds and only took a couple of minutes to loop well (although the machine to do it on was now three thousand pounds).

5 years ago, major price breakthroughs brought the cost of a similar machine to around the thousand-pound mark and DJs & producers used them by the thousands in studios to re-mix tracks in just a few hours.

Today however, because of your decision to purchase a RED SoundBITE LITE, you are in a position to make 24-bit loop samples (at 96kHz) in real-time at the touch of a button without missing a beat! What's more, you can automatically sync together up to six loops with equal ease.

Asking just £300 or best offer.

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Thanks for looking, Andy.