Evil sampler?

[Ingo Debus]

Christian Hofmann wrote:
> Of course we all know that the sampler is evil ;-)

I do see the ;-) but I don't get the point. Why is a sampler evil?
We have been talking about Hammonds, Leslies, tape echoes and other
non-synthesizers and it was all very interesting (at least to me).
I have a lot of fun creating sounds with my sampler. For instance, I
tried to make a pitch-bend controlled Shepard tone with it, since none
of my synthesizers allow volume to be controlled by MIDI pitch bend
messages (didn't work too well, though).

BTW, Steve Reich uses samplers but not synthesizers because in his
opinion all synthesizer sounds stink. ;-)

Ingo