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In the early 1990s, Dave
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While developing music technology and creative tools for musicians, Kerzner collaborated with professional artists to sample and digitally reproduce the sounds of many types of musical instruments. The sounds are played from music software such as
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in order for musicians to access the sampled sounds from his collection of instruments. In 1999, Sonic
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