10.6

409Logic Pro Instruments
• Velocity Range parameters: Use these parameters to define a velocity range for the
zone. When you play notes outside this range, you will not trigger or hear the sample
assigned to this zone.
• Low field: Set the lowest velocity that triggers the zone.
• High field: Set the highest velocity that triggers the zone.
• Mixer parameters: Use these parameters to define zone output handling.
• Volume field: Set the overall output level of the zone.
• Pan field: Set the pan position of the zone. This parameter works only when Sampler
is used in stereo.
• Scale field: Balance the level of a zone (sample) across the defined key range. A
negative value makes lower notes softer than higher notes; positive values have the
opposite effect.
• Output pop-up menu: Set the outputs used by the zone. Choices include the main
outputs, paired channels, or individual outputs. This allows individual zones to be
routed independently to aux channel strips (in a multi-output Sampler instance).
• Playback parameters: Use these options to determine zone playback behavior.
• Pitch button: Turn on to change the sample pitch when you play different keys. When
disabled, the sample is always played at its original pitch, regardless of which note
you play.
• 1Shot button: Turn on to make the zone ignore the length of incoming MIDI note
events—resulting in the sample assigned to the zone always being played from
beginning to end whenever you play a note (or a note-on event is received). This is
useful for drum samples, where you often don’t want the MIDI note length to affect
sample playback. Also see the Fade field parameter below.
• Reverse button: Turn on to play the sample from the sample end marker to the
sample start marker.
• Group Assignment pop-up menu: Shows the group assignment of a zone. You can
choose another group to reassign the selected zone or zones. For more information, see
Create Sampler groups and Use Sampler Group view.
• Sample parameters: Use to define zone sample parameters. Sample parameters can be
graphically edited in the Zone pane.
• (Sample) Start and End fields: Set the sample start and end points, respectively.
• Fade In and Fade Out fields: Use to set the fade times for a zone. Values are shown
in samples. The higher the value, the longer it takes for the fade.
Note: This parameter defaults to a value of 0, except when the sampler instrument is
created with the Track > Convert Regions to New Sampler Track command in Logic
Pro. This feature uses transient markers and results in a default Fade field value
that matches the slicing offset of the following transient marker. See Quickly create
instruments from audio regions.
• Anchor field: Set a value to trigger playback of the sample earlier in the project.
To explain further, on playback, Logic looks into the future and advances sample
playback by the amount set in the anchor field. The sample is played earlier, so that
the anchor sounds exactly on the downbeat of the note. The sample anchor is useful
for instruments such as shakers that have a rhythmic anchor at a position after the
beginning of the sample.