Reference Manual

CHAPTER 23. LIVE INSTRUMENT REFERENCE 418
23.10.3 The Zone Tab
The Key Zone Editor.
Clicking on the Zone tab toggles the display of Sampler's Zone Editor, which offers a hands-
on interface for mapping any number of samples across three types of ranges.
The Zone Editor opens in its own dedicated view, directly above the Track View. When used
in conjunction with Sampler's other tabs, this layout greatly accelerates the creation and
editing of multisamples.
On the left side of the Zone Editor is the sample layer list, where multisamples are organized.
All of the individual samples belonging to a multisample are shown in this list, where they
are referred to as layers. For complex multisamples, this list can be quite long. Pressing
(PC) /
Ctrl
(Mac) within the sample layer list opens a context menu that offers a variety
of options for sorting and displaying the layers, distributing them across the keyboard and
various other sample management and housekeeping options.
The rest of the view is occupied by one of three editors that correspond to the sample layers:
the Key Zone Editor, the Velocity Zone Editor and the Sample Select Editor. These editors
can be horizontally zoomed by pressing (PC) /
Ctrl
(Mac) within them to bring up
a context menu with sizing options.
Auto Select (Auto)  As MIDI notes arrive at Sampler, they are ltered by each sample layer's
key, velocity and sample select zones. With Auto Select enabled, all sample layers that are
able to play an incoming note will become selected in the sample layer list for the duration
of that note.
Zone Fade Mode (Lin/Pow)  These buttons toggle the fade mode of all zones between
linear and constant-power (exponential) slopes.