BLACKBOX USER MANUAL v 1.5
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If you have a number of samples of a single instrument at various pitches with root notes defined for each WAV file,
you can map these samples together to reduce the amount of pitch shifting required to play a broad range of
notes. Put the files you want to use in one multi-sample pad into a single directory by themselves. There are several
folders of samples like this in the \Symplesound folder included with the 1.3 firmware update. To load one of these
sample banks into a pad:
1.
Push the
PADS
button to bring up the Pads screen.
2.
Select a pad by touching it or using the control knobs to cycle through the pads. (The top control knobs
move the selection horizontally. The bottom control knobs move the selection vertically.) The selected pad
is highlighted pink.
3.
Press the
INFO
button. If the pad was empty, the Load and Record screen will be displayed. If the pad
already had a WAV file assigned, the Waveform screen will be displayed.
4.
If you are on the Load and Record screen, touch
Load
in the top menu bar. If you are on the Waveform
screen, touch the name of the WAV file at the top of the screen. You will now be on the WAV file selection
screen.
5.
From the WAV file selection screen, Use the control knobs to scroll through the list of files and directories. The
selected file name has a blue highlight. When looking at the list of files, list items that start with a slash
\
are
directories. Load a directory to see its contents. The file path is displayed above the list of files. Touch the
caret
^
to go back to the previous directory. Highlight one of the files in the directory of samples that you
want to load into the pad. A good example of a directory to use with multi-samples is
\Symplesound\Housepiano. You can select any file within that directory.
6.
Touch
File
and then
Load All
.
Blackbox will now load all of the files in the current directory into this pad and map the files to notes across the
keyboard based on the root notes defined in the WAV files. Now, use the KEYS screen or an external MIDI controller
to play notes for that pad, and blackbox will play the sample with the root note that is closest to the note played,
and pitch shift as needed to achieve the necessary tone.
You can also use multi-sampling to map multiple waves across the keyboard. This can be useful if you have a folder
full of drum sounds that you want to trigger with a keyboard. If you follow the steps above and load a folder where
the files do not have root note mappings, it will load the files in alphabetical order, map the first file to note C2, and
then each subsequent file to the next note above that. If you load the folder \SoundtrackLoops\SL Acoustic kit, you
can see this in action. This folder has 16 drum samples which get mapped to notes C2 through D#3. Notes below
C2 will play the first WAV file pitch shifted down the appropriate number of half steps.
You can use blackbox to map the files to specific notes if you want. Open the files as individual samples on
blackbox and edit the
Root Note
on the
Misc
tab of the Parameters screen. Save the WAV file with the root note
information. After you have done this for all of the files in the folder, use
File->
Load All
to load them all into a pad
and you will hear that the notes are mapped accordingly.
Because a multi-sample pad uses multiple samples, it is not possible to set start, length, loop start or loop end points
for these pads. Therefore, it doesn’t make sense to enable looping for these pads eithe
r. As a result, the POS and
MISC tabs of the parameter page are not used when multiple samples are loaded in a pad. Only the standard
Main, ADSR and MIDI parameters are supported for Multi-samples.
Note:
•
Multi-sampling can quickly use a lot of samples. In order to prevent potential issues, blackbox limits you
to loading 80 wav files at a time. If you hit that limit, it won’t load any more wav files until you free up
some slots by clearing out a pad. There is also a limit of 64 WAV files per pad.
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