User Manual

NN-XT SAMPLER
(RECORD+REASON)
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Parameters
The following are the available controlling parameters:
• Attack
When you press a key on your keyboard, the envelope is triggered. The attack parameter then controls how long
it should take before the controlled parameter (pitch or filter) reaches the maximum value, when you press a key.
By setting attack to a value of “0”, the destination parameter would reach the maximum value instantly. By raising
the attack parameter, the value will instead slowly “slide” up to its maximum.
•Hold
This is used for deciding how long the controlled parameter should stay at its maximum value before starting to
decrease again. This can be used in combination with the Attack and Decay parameters to make a value reach its
maximum level, stay there for a while (hold) and then start dropping gradually down to the sustain level.
• Decay
After the maximum value for a destination has been reached and the Hold time has expired, the controlled param-
eter will start to gradually drop down to the sustain level. How long it should take before it reaches the sustain level
is controlled with the Decay parameter. If Decay is set to “0”, the value will immediately drop down to the sustain
level.
•Sustain
The Sustain parameter determines the value the envelope should drop back to after the Decay. If you set Sustain
to full level however, the Decay setting doesn’t matter since the value will never decrease.
A combination of Decay and Sustain can be used for creating envelopes that rise up to the maximum value, then
gradually decrease to, and stay on a level somewhere in-between zero and maximum.
• Release
This works just like the Decay parameter, with the exception that it determines the time it takes for the value to fall
back to zero
after the key is released.
• Delay
This is used for setting a delay between when a note is played and when the effect of the envelope starts. That is,
the sound will start unmodulated, and the envelope will kick in after you have kept the key(s) pressed down for a
while. Turn the knob to the right to increase the delay time. If the knob is set all the way to the left, there will be no
delay.
•Key To Decay
By using this, you can cause the value of the Decay parameter (see above) to be offset depending on where on
your keyboard you play. If you turn the knob to the right the decay value will be raised the higher up you play, and
turning the knob to the left will lower the decay value the higher up you play. With the knob in the center position,
this parameter is deactivated.
Destinations
The following are the available Mod Envelope destinations:
•Pitch
This will make the envelope modulate the pitch, as set in the Pitch section (see “The Pitch section”). Turn the knob
to the right to raise the pitch and to the left to lower the pitch. In the middle position, pitch will not be affected by
the envelope.
• Filter
This will make the envelope modulate the cutoff frequency of the Filter (see “The Filter section”). Turn the knob to
the right to increase the frequency and to the left to lower the frequency. In the middle position, the envelope will
have no effect on the cutoff frequency.