Operation Manual

SAMPLER BASICS

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Phase 2: EDITING

Making Your Samples Sound Right

Once the sample(s) you intend to use have been satisfactorily recorded and placed in the sampler’s memory,

then you can edit the sample data to create exactly the sound you want. This can involve anything from sim-

ply trimming/looping and mapping the sample (procedures which do not actually change the sound of the

sample), to applying ﬁlter, envelope generator, low-frequency modulation, and effects which might dramat-

ically alter the basic timbre and sound of the sample.

Although you probably won’t need to use all of the available editing functions for every sample, the normal

sequence of editing procedures would be:

1. Trimming and/or Looping

Once you’ve recorded a sample you might ﬁnd that there’s unnecessary space or noise preceding or

following the sound you want to use. Or you might only want to use a portion of the sound you ini-

tially recorded. Trimming, as the term implies, allows you to “trim” away unwanted portions of the

recorded sound, leaving only the sound you want to use.

Step-by-Step procedure on page 42.

If you simply want your sample to play back in linear fashion from beginning to end, then looping is

not necessary. But if you want the entire sample to repeat continuously, or you want a speciﬁed seg-

ment of the sample to repeat continuously to create a sustained tone, then you will need to specify the

appropriate looping parameters.

Step-by-Step procedure on page 44.

ORIGINAL

SAMPLE

TRIMMED

SAMPLE

TRIM

STRAIGHT PLAYBACK

(NO LOOP)

LOOPED PLAYBACK

(ONE EXAMPLE)

The sample plays from beginning to end

(or until the note is released).

In this example the speciﬁed loop repeats until the

note is released, then the ﬁnal decay portion of the

sample plays. There are other types of loops.

LOOP