CHAPTER 23. LIVE INSTRUMENT REFERENCE
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Zone Editor View (Key/Vel/Sel)
These buttons toggle the display of the Key Zone, Velocity
Zone and Sample Select Editors.
The Sample Layer List
All samples contained in the currently loaded multisample are listed here, with each sample
given its own layer. For very large multisamples, this list might be hundreds of layers long!
Fortunately, layers can be descriptively named (according to their root key, for example).
Mousing over a layer in the list or a zone in the zone editors will display relevant information
about the corresponding sample in the Status Bar. Selecting any layer will load its sample
into the
Sample
tab for examination.
Key Zones
Key zones de ne the range of MIDI notes over which each sample will play. Samples are
only triggered when incoming MIDI notes lie within their key zone. Every sample has its
own key zone, which can span anywhere from a single key up to the full 127.
A typical multisampled instrument contains many individual samples, distributed into many
key zones. Samples are captured at a particular key of an instrument's voice range (known
as their
root key
), but may continue to sound accurate when transposed a few semitones up
or down. This range usually corresponds to the sample's key zone; ranges beyond this zone
are represented by additional samples, as needed.
By default, the key zones of newly imported samples cover the full MIDI note range. Zones
can be moved and resized like clips in the Arrangement View, by dragging their right or left
edges to resize them, then dragging them into position.
Zones can also be faded over a number of semitones at either end by dragging their top
right or left corners. This makes it easy to smoothly crossfade between adjacent samples as
the length of the keyboard is traversed. The Lin and Pow boxes above the sample layer list
indicate whether the zones will fade in a linear or exponential manner.
