iZotope's Iris software is a sampler with a difference. As well as allowing you to load in samples and manipulate them, Iris is also an amazing tool for sound designers, as it allows you to pick out the exact elements of a sample that you would like to hear and …

Sampling technology really started to come of age with the development of computer based sampling systems, such as the Fairlight CMI, in the mid to late eighties, and there was a plethora of sample based records to prove it! However, at one end of the scale, you had the highly …