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Sampler functions

SPAN

The

SPAN button allows you to set the keyspan of any keygroups in the program. On the

left of this page are up to four diagrams of a keyboard with a keyspan underneath the

keyboard (represented by a horizontal bar), and to the right of this are displayed the

corresponding keygroups with their HIGH and LOW ranges. These may be displayed

either as MIDI note numbers or as note names. Press

SPAN once again to toggle between

note names and numbers. You can then select the keygroup number you want (place the

cursor on a field in the KG column, and use the DATA knob to select the keygroup)

before altering the HIGH and LOW limits of the keygroup. Note that if you are editing

using the note names, placing the cursor over the whole note name will alter the value by

an octave for each click of the DATA knob. Alternatively, place the cursor on the

"LOW"

field of the first keyspan and play the appropriate key on the MIDI keyboard. The cursor

will move to the next note value field (the high value of the same keyspan,

of the low

value of the next), ready for you to play the next note.

In this page, you can also alter the tuning (TUNE) of the samples played in this keyspan

in semitones and cents (useful if you have a split keyboard setup, and you want each half

of the split to sound at the correct pitch).

The other parameter in this page is BEAT, which is used to create a fixed offset to the

original pitch. Unlike the TUNE parameter, this tuning offset is constant, no matter what

the played pitch of the sample. You may like to use this to create a "chorus" effect, by

adding a small amount of fixed offset to one of two otherwise identical samples.

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