Sampler (musical instrument) Sampler (musical instrument) A sampler is an electronic or digital musical instrument similar in some respects to a synthesizer, but instead of generating new sounds with voltage-controlled oscillators, it uses sound recordings (or "samples") of real instrument sounds (e.g., a piano, violin or trumpet), excerpts from recorded songs (e.g., a five-second bass guitar riff from a funk song) or other sounds (e.g., sirens and ocean waves). The samples are loaded or recorded by the user or by a manufacturer. These sounds are then played back by means of the sampler program itself, a MIDI keyboard, sequencer or another triggering device
Rubab (instrument) is attached partway down the neck, similar to the fifth string of the American banjo. Rubab (instrument) Rubab, robab or rabab (, , , , "rubāb", Tajik and Uzbek "рубоб") is a lute-like musical instrument originating from central Afghanistan. The "rubab" is mainly used by Pashtun, Tajik, Turkish, Kashmiri, Baluch, Azerbaijani, and Iranian Kurdish classical musicians. Rubab is one of the national musical instruments of Afghanistan. It has "proliferated throughout West, Central, South and Southeast Asia." Rbab () is an Arabic word. According to the Arabic diacritics, vowels between consonants - apart from "Alif" (Aleph) are not written but articulates.