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CHAPTER 23. LIVE INSTRUMENT REFERENCE 388

loaded into Impulse's sample slots can be time-stretched, ltered and processed by enve-

lope, saturation, pan and volume components, nearly all of which are subject to random

and velocity-based modulation.

23.6.1 Sample Slots

Drag and drop samples into any of Impulse's sample slots from the Browser or the Session

and Arrangement Views. Alternatively, each sample slot features a Hot-Swap button for

hot-swapping samples. Loaded samples can be deleted with your computer keyboard's

Delete

key.

Imported samples are automatically mapped onto your MIDI keyboard, providing that it is

plugged in and acknowledged by Live. C3 on the keyboard will trigger the leftmost sample,

and the other samples will follow suit in the octave from C3 to C4. Impulse's eight slots

will appear labeled in the MIDI Editor's key tracks when the Fold button is active, even if

the given key track is void of MIDI notes. Mapping can be transposed from the default by

applying a Pitch device, or it can be rearranged by applying a Scale device.

Each of the eight samples has a proprietary set of parameters, located in the area below the

sample slots and visible when the sample is clicked. Adjustments to sample settings are only

captured once you hit a new note  they do not affect currently playing notes. Note that

this behavior also denes how Impulse reacts to parameter changes from clip envelopes or

automation, which are applied once a new note starts. If you want to achieve continuous

changes as a note plays, you may want to use the Simpler.

Slot 8's parameters also include a Link button, located in the lower left corner, which links

slot 8 with slot 7. Linking the two slots allows slot 7's activation to stop slot 8's playback,

and vice versa. This was designed with a specic situation in mind (but can, of course, be

used for other purposes): Replicating the way that closed hi-hats will silence open hi-hats.

Each slot can be played, soloed, muted or hot-swapped using controls that appear when

the mouse hovers over it.