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# Samples

Another great way to develop your music is to use pre-recorded sounds. In great hip-hop tradition, we call these pre-recorded sounds *samples*. So, if you take a microphone outside, go and record the gentle sound of rain hitting canvas, you've just created a sample.

Sonic Pi lets you do lots of fun things with samples. Not only does it ship with 130 public domain samples ready for you to jam with, it lets you play and manipulate your own. Let's get to it...
