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Casio’s SXC-1 handheld sampler is packed with fun, coming to Japan

https://cdm.link/casios-sxc-1-coming-to-japan/

Casio's SXC-1 handheld sampler is packed with fun, coming to Japan - CDM Create Digital Music

Memory may be vanishing, phones and laptops may be getting downgraded specs. But we're enjoying an unexpected renaissance of mobile samplers. And of all of these, Casio might pack the most fun into a single package. The SXC-1's Japanese preorder was announced and sold out this week, and with good reason: this looks like the most fun we've had with Casio since the 80s and 90s.

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Jon

Apr 20

From Record Store Day 1972, a circular sleeve edition of this great sampler from Warner Bros/Reprise. Alice Cooper, Curved Air, Faces, Grateful Dead and more. It’s wild you can pick this up and others in the series for a couple of English pounds. #vinyl #RSD1972 #Samplers #xp

Jon

Mar 13

Talking of samplers, this is more a ‘history of’ but a sampler nonetheless, the history of Cherry Red records, Ambition volumes 1 and 2. An outstanding compilation. #CherryRedRecords #samplers #CDs #CompactDisc

Jon

Mar 13

A recent sampler addition to go with the ever increasing number in the collection. This is a Transatlantic sampler with the likes of Bert Jansch, Pentangle, Gordon Giltrap and includes the brilliant Granny Takes A Trip from The Purple Gang. Great stuff for £2 #vinyl #samplers #transatlantic

Jon

Jan 22

There we are. All my children washed and tucked up ready for bed. #vinyl #samplers #IslandRecords #xp

BlueSCSI Jul 3, 2025

User came on Discord today complaining how hard it was to configure RAW mode on BlueSCSI - they were right! So I automated it all.

Seems samplers users like the RAW partitioned SD workflow instead of images.

This also allows you to pop in a SCSI2SD card into your BlueSCSI for a easy upgrade.

#samplers #scsi #BlueSCSI

BC BY-NC-SA Jun 18, 2025

Sample Pack Contest – Sample Pack Contest XI
#Electronic #plunderphonics #samplers #sampling #UnitedKingdom
CC BY-NC-SA (#CreativeCommons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike) #ccmusic
https://samplepackcontest.bandcamp.com/album/sample-pack-contest-xi

Sample Pack Contest XI, by Sample Pack Contest

70 track album

Sample Pack Contest

Hacker News Jun 14, 2025

Rethinking Losses for Diffusion Bridge Samplers

https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10982

#HackerNews #Rethinking #Losses #Diffusion #Bridge #Samplers #MachineLearning #Research #Arxiv

Rethinking Losses for Diffusion Bridge Samplers

Diffusion bridges are a promising class of deep-learning methods for sampling from unnormalized distributions. Recent works show that the Log Variance (LV) loss consistently outperforms the reverse Kullback-Leibler (rKL) loss when using the reparametrization trick to compute rKL-gradients. While the on-policy LV loss yields identical gradients to the rKL loss when combined with the log-derivative trick for diffusion samplers with non-learnable forward processes, this equivalence does not hold for diffusion bridges or when diffusion coefficients are learned. Based on this insight we argue that for diffusion bridges the LV loss does not represent an optimization objective that can be motivated like the rKL loss via the data processing inequality. Our analysis shows that employing the rKL loss with the log-derivative trick (rKL-LD) does not only avoid these conceptual problems but also consistently outperforms the LV loss. Experimental results with different types of diffusion bridges on challenging benchmarks show that samplers trained with the rKL-LD loss achieve better performance. From a practical perspective we find that rKL-LD requires significantly less hyperparameter optimization and yields more stable training behavior.

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This account has moved May 9, 2025

This could be today but talking about AI (then, sampling) .Contains Brian Pern. Interviewer is Andy Batten-Foster (not Colin Hunt) who was on BBC radio 1 with Richard Skinner for a while way back before becoming a TV producer. #80s #Samplers #Music #BBCArchive
https://youtu.be/91NCoDRadlg?si=7PoN_Nfq7Zz22PIF