Sampling - Historic Examples

• The Mellotron: A electro-mechanical device developed in 1963 and used by various rock groups such as The Beattles, The Moody Blues, King Crimson and Genesis.
  

• Fairlight CMI: Introduced in 1979, one of the earliest electronic music workstations with an embedded sampler.
  
  • Herbie Hancock on Sesame Street

• Akai MPC: A series of music workstations, initially developed by Roger Linn in 1988, that combine sampling and sequencing functionality.