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Chapter 6: Creating and Editing Programs

ately following the attack phase. This is similar to the

“envelope initial decay” parameter on most synthesizers.

2. END: The decay phase of the envelope always ends exactly

at the end of the sound playback. The point at which the

decay starts is determined by the decay parameter. This

was called fadeout on the MPC60 and is very useful for

creating a smooth fade down just before the end of a

sampled sound.

The Vel Mod (Velocity Modulation) section:

• The Attack field:

This field sets the amount of effect that note velocity has on attack

time (0-100%). If set to 0, note velocity has no effect on attack; if set

to higher values, attack time will increase as you play lower veloci-

ties. That is, hitting a pad hard will produce a faster attack than

hitting it softly.

• The Sft st (soft start) field:

This field controls the amount of time (0-5000 ms) that will be added

to the sound’s Soft Start location when notes with low velocities are

received. (The Soft Start field is located in the screen accessed by

pressing the PROGRAM/SOUNDS key and selecting option 6 from

the menu.) This provides a good simulation of the way a real drum

sounds differently when hit softly. If you set this field above 0,

hitting a pad more softly will start playback later in the sample,

causing fewer attack transients to be heard. Notes with velocity = 1

will add the full amount of time entered here to the Soft Start

location; notes with velocity = 127 will add nothing; notes with

velocities in between will add time proportionately. If this field is set

to 0, note velocity will have no effect on the Soft Start location.

• The Volume field:

This field sets the amount of effect that note velocity has on volume

(0-100%). If set to 0, note velocity has no effect on volume; if set to

higher values, the volume will decrease as you play lower velocities.

The Tune/Poly section:

• The Tune field:

This sets the tuning. The range is from -240 (-24 semitones) to 240

(+24 semitones) in increments of 0.1 semitone.

• The Poly field:

This is a choice field with three options:

1.POLY: Multiple plays of the sound are assigned to addi-

tional voices, allowing polyphonic overlap. This is useful

for sounds like ride cymbals, for which you don’t want

new notes to cut off old ones.

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