Reference Manual

447 Live Instrument Reference
The Volume Envelope
The Global Volume Envelope.
The volume envelope is global, and defines the articulation of Sampler’s sounds with standard
ADSR (attack, decay, sustain, release) parameters. Please see the Sample Playback section
(page 437) for details on these parameters.
This envelope can also be looped via the Loop chooser. When a Loop mode is selected, the
Time/Repeat slider becomes important. For Loop and Trigger modes, if a note is still held when
the Decay stage ends, the envelope will restart from its initial value. The time it takes to move
from the Sustain level to the initial value is defined by the Time parameter. For Beat and Sync
modes, if a note is still held after the amount set in the Repeat slider, the envelope will restart
from its initial value.
The Pan slider is a global pan control (acting on all samples), while Pan<Rnd adds a degree of
randomness to the global pan position. Time (Global Time Envelope) will proportionally shrink
or expand the length of all envelopes in Sampler. Time<Key (Global Envelope Time<Key) will
proportionally shrink or expand the length of all envelopes in Sampler relative to the pitch of
incoming MIDI notes.
Controls For Global Pan and Global Time.
Finally, the Voices selector provides up to 32 simultaneous voices for each instance of Sampler.
Voice retriggering can optionally be enabled by activating the Retrigger button (R) to the right of
the Voices chooser. When activated, notes which are already playing will be retriggered, rather