Settings Window
The Settings window contains the following controls: Track, Release Loop,
Sample Bank Selector, File, Key, Velocity, Volume, Octave, Semitone, Cent
and Smooth.
The Track button determines whether the Generator tracks the pitch of
incoming MIDI. If Track is switched off the frequency of the Generator
depends on the Octave, Semitone and Cent settings. Range: On/Off.
The setting of the Release Loop button determines what happens in terms
of sample playback after a note is released. When the Release Loop
button is on, sample playback continues from within the loop even after a
Note Off message is received. This means that the segment of the loop
after Loop-End point never gets played. When the Release Loop button is
off, sample playback ends with the segment of the loop after Loop-End
point.
The Sample Bank Selector button array is located on the left of the Settings
window. It consists of 8 small square vertically-aligned buttons labeled from
“A” to “H”. These buttons allow you to choose between 8 screens, each of
which displays 8 sample "slots". The screen A displays "slots" one to eight,
while screen B displays slots nine to sixteen, and so on. If you're using a
multisampled instrument you may need more than eight "slots". In this case
you can switch to screen B to see "slots" nine to sixteen and so on up to
"slot" sixty-four on the eighth screen.
The File display shows the name of the currently loaded sample/s.
The Key setting is used to determine which note triggers a sample. If you
want the Loop Sampler Generator to play more than one sample, use a
different Key for each separate sample. In this way you can have sixty-four
different samples triggered by sixty-four different notes within one Loop
Sampler Generator. If you use velocity-split samples the Key for all samples
will be the same, however a different velocity range (see below) will trigger
each sample.
The Velocity setting determines the velocity range in which a particular
sample is triggered. Setting different velocity ranges for individual samples
allows you to create expressive multisampled instruments that respond
dynamically to MIDI input. For example, imagine that you have three
samples assigned to a single key. If you set the sample velocities so that
sample 1 is triggered in the 1 to 59 velocity range, and sample 2 is triggered
in the 60 to 89 velocity range you have what is known as hard velocity
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