You can add samples, of course, but they are not samplers per se, where you internally sample. I guess they are mostly used as Romplers with the included soundsets and we use subtractive synthesis to shape the end sound. Today, we have these hybrid softsynths like Rapture/DimPro. I only know that Rompler was used in the mags and sales guys and us end-users to distinguish static memory synths from actual samplers. People started using the term Romplers to distinguish the next type of common synthesis (that you could actually play with and buy up on 48th street NYC or your local store), which was read-only samples combined with subtractive synthesis. After the drum machines they started making keyboards with sampling engines. At first, there wasn't too much synthesis involved other than raw playback techniques. The 2nd commonly available synthesis method was sampling - all the drum machines esp. Then they started doing all this fancy digitial stuff and nothing was ever the same again.
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