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22.5.1 Sample Slots
Drag and drop samples into any of Impulse's sample slots from the Browser or the Session
and Arrangement Views. Alternatively, each sample slot features a Hot-Swap button for
hot-swapping samples. Loaded samples can be deleted with your computer keyboard's
or
Delete
key.
Imported samples are automatically mapped onto your MIDI keyboard, providing that it is
plugged in and acknowledged by Live. C3 on the keyboard will trigger the leftmost sample,
and the other samples will follow suit in the octave from C3 to C4. Impulse's eight slots
will appear labeled in the MIDI Editor's key tracks when the Fold button is active, even if
the given key track is void of MIDI notes. Mapping can be transposed from the default by
applying a Pitch device, or it can be rearranged by applying a Scale device.
Each of the eight samples has a proprietary set of parameters, located in the area below the
sample slots and visible when the sample is clicked. Adjustments to sample settings are only
captured once you hit a new note they do not affect currently playing notes. Note that
this behavior also denes how Impulse reacts to parameter changes from clip envelopes or
automation, which are applied once a new note starts. If you want to achieve continuous
changes as a note plays, you may want to use the Simpler.
Slot 8's parameters also include a Link button, located in the lower left cor ner, which links
slot 8 with slot 7. Linking the two slots allows slot 7's activation to stop slot 8's playback,
and vice versa. This was designed with a specic situation in mind (but can, of course, be
used for other purposes): Replicating the way that closed hi-hats will silence open hi-hats.
Each slot can be played, soloed, muted or hot-swapped using controls that appear when
the mouse hovers over it.
22.5.2 Start, Tune and Stretch
The Start control denes where Impulse begins playing a sample, and can be set up to
100 ms later than the actual sample beginning. The Transposition control adjusts the
transposition of the sample by +/- 48 semitones, and can be modulated by incoming note
velocity or a random value, as set in the appropriate elds.