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can you explain the sampler heiarchy?
A sampler is organized into a hierarchy of progressively more complicated data structures.
At the bottom lie samples, individual recordings of any sound.
so how does have have any exciting points?
), a sample could be any sound, including "non-musical" sounds such as a typewriter clacking or a dog barking.

Question: anything else?
Self-contained rewrite: anything else about Sampler, other than it having any sound?