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I'm just wondering what the point is of synth instruments (manipulating wave formswaveforms) if I can just use samples for everything. For example, say I sample a single middle-c piano note. My understanding is that a DAW sampler can then change the pitches of this one sample so I could potentially get all the notes across the piano from just this one sample. Similarly I could use samples for all harmony, beats, and melodies across all instruments. So could my entire song be made of samples, why use synth instruments then?

I'm just wondering what the point is of synth instruments (manipulating wave forms) if I can just use samples for everything. For example, say I sample a single middle-c piano note. My understanding is that a DAW sampler can then change the pitches of this one sample so I could potentially get all the notes across the piano from just this one sample. Similarly I could use samples for all harmony, beats, and melodies across all instruments. So could my entire song be made of samples, why use synth instruments then?

I'm just wondering what the point is of synth instruments (manipulating waveforms) if I can just use samples for everything. For example, say I sample a single middle-c piano note. My understanding is that a DAW sampler can then change the pitches of this one sample so I could potentially get all the notes across the piano from just this one sample. Similarly I could use samples for all harmony, beats, and melodies across all instruments. So could my entire song be made of samples, why use synth instruments then?

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Can a song be made entirely of samples?

I'm just wondering what the point is of synth instruments (manipulating wave forms) if I can just use samples for everything. For example, say I sample a single middle-c piano note. My understanding is that a DAW sampler can then change the pitches of this one sample so I could potentially get all the notes across the piano from just this one sample. Similarly I could use samples for all harmony, beats, and melodies across all instruments. So could my entire song be made of samples, why use synth instruments then?