Software sampler
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A software sampler is similar to a software synthesizer and there is great deal of overlap between the two, but whereas a software synthesizer generates sounds algorithmically from mathematically-described tones or short-term waveforms (i.e., less than 100ms in length), a software sampler always reproduces samples, often much longer than a second, as the first step of its algorithm.
See also: software synthesizer, sampler (musical instrument)