Reference Manual

430 Live Instrument Reference
24.7.5 The Zone Tab
The Zone Tab.
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 Key Zone, the
Velocity Zone and Sample Select Editors, respectively.
The Key Zone Editor.
The Zone Editor opens in its own dedicated view, directly above the Device 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.
The rest of the view is occupied by one of three editors that correspond to the sample layers: the
Key Zone Editor (page 434), the Velocity Zone Editor (page 435) and the Sample Select
Editor (page 435). These editors can be horizontally zoomed by [right-clicking](PC) / [CTRL-
clicking](Mac) within them to bring up a context menu, and selecting Small, Medium or Large.
Auto Select (Auto) — As MIDI notes arrive at Sampler, they are filtered by each sample layer’s
key, velocity and sample select zones. With Auto Select enabled, all sample layers that are able