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The Waveplayer
the specified Env value will be reached even with soft
touches of the keys. But with large Vel values you will have
to hit the keys very hard in order to reach the specified Env
values. Take your time to get familiar with these interde-
pendencies.
Altogether now: Now that you’ve learned about the
parameters associated to a single WAV-file, let’s move on
to that mysterious Lnk checkbox. The explanation is quite
simple. Assume you’ve got two WAV-files loaded, one on
C4 and one on C5. Check the Lnk box for the WAV-file on
C4. Its VCF, VCA and Trigger parameters will disappear
and are replaced with the corresponding parameters of the
WAV-File on C5. To indicate this, its parameter cross-
beam gets linked to that of the WAV-File on C5. In other
words, checking a Lnk box on a WAV-file replaces its para-
meter settings with those of the next WAV-File above. If a
WAV-file has no WAV-file above itself, it will have no Lnk
checkbox, because there is nothing it can be linked to.
What is Lnk good for? Here is an example: imagine you
have ten WAV-files, different recordings of a piano at dif-
ferent pitches. You have them beautifully laid out across
the keyboard and then you want to make them all a little
darker. Without Lnk, you could spend quite a lot of time
with this task because you have to change the parameters
of each and every WAV-file. But with Lnk activated in all
but the topmost WAV-file, all you have to do is to change
the parameters for the topmost WAV-file in order to apply
the same a parameters to them all.
Lost your way? That’s it. Your WavePlayer crash-course
ends here. Just two more things: if you lost track while ex-
perimenting, you can easily set all parameters back to
their default values via Initialize > Default Parameters.
And if you really want to start all over again, you can clear
all WAV key assignments at once via Initialize > Delete All
Assignments. So go ahead, experiment and have fun!