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The Waveplayer
is limited to twelve semitones. It is important to be aware
of the interdependence between the upper keyboard zone
and the Tune parameter at this point. If Tune is set to
+1200, you won’t be able to transpose the WAV-file any
further upwards because it is already transposed an octave
up via Tune because Tune is measured in cents, and one
cent equals 1/100 of a semitone.
Now that we have introduced Tune, we can also get right
into the other parameters of the crossbar. You can deter-
mine which parameters you would like to see via View.
The active default settings are: Parameters, Keyboard, Filter
Parameter and Filter Parameters as Knobs. To start with, we
suggest that you just leave them on.
Let’s have a look at the parameters from left to right. Tune
is already familiar to you. Next come Start and Length: here
you can adjust from which point (in samples) the WAV-
file is played back when you start it, and how long (in sam-
ples) the part played back will be.
Trigger defines the playback mode: set Trigger to Gate and
the WAV-file will only play back as long as you hold the
key. When set to Freerun, the WAV-file will play back for
its whole length, regardless of whether you release or hold
the key. Hint: Freerun is especially suitable for drum
sounds.
Soundshaping via the VCA: We’ll leave out the Lnk
checkbox for the moment and move to the On checkbox.
Check it to activate the sound shaping section of the Wave-
Player. Uncheck it to save computing power that could
otherwise increase the polyphony of the WavePlayer, but
then you won’t be able to tweak those nice parameters
we’ll now describe.
The sound shaping parameters are divided into two
groups: VCF and VCA. We will start with the VCA. The
VCA group lets you alter the volume of your WAV-file over
time. Attack (Atk) allows you to automatically fade in your
WAV-file from zero level to full level. The smaller the At-
tack value, the faster you will hear the WAV-file at full
level. Increase the Attack value and it will take more time
for the WAV-file to gradually fade in. Decay (Dcy) allows
you to fade out your WAV-file from full level to zero level.
Small Decay values will give you rapid fade-outs, large val-
ues will correspondingly lengthen the fade out time. At
maximum Decay value there will be no fade out at all; you
will hear the WAV-file for its full length (or not, if Trigger
is set to Gate and you release the key before the WAV-file
has reached its end).