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425Logic Pro Instruments
You can also create sampler instruments with the Auto Sampler utility plug-in.
Important: Audio files are not contained within a sampler instrument. The sampler
instrument only stores information about the files, including filenames, parameter
settings, and locations on the hard disk. If you delete or rename an audio file, any sampler
instrument that uses this file will be unable to find it. You can move audio files to another
location on your system, however, because Sampler automatically searches for files when
you load a sampler instrument. The search mechanism uses Spotlight, so you should make
sure that Spotlight is running and updated for all your drives.
See Sampler storage locations and Sampler instrument management.
Create instruments with Sampler
You can create your own sampler instruments in the way that suits you best. The simplest
and fastest way is with drag and drop.
• You can drag one or more audio files directly onto the Sampler Navigation bar.
• You can drag one or more audio files directly onto the Sampler Mapping pane. This is
generally done in the Key Mapping Editor, but you can also drag and drop audio into
Zone and Group views.
• You can drag a single audio file directly into the Sampler Zone pane.
You can also methodically create empty zones and groups using menu commands, then fill
them with audio content, using either menu options or drag and drop.
You can add zones and groups to loaded instruments, or you can create a new instrument
from scratch, and fill it with zones and groups.
Editing of many zone and group parameters can also be performed graphically, or with
numerical fields and menus. Creation and editing of sampler instrument zones and groups
is performed in the Mapping and Zone panes.
Important: Sampler cannot directly record samples as you would with a hardware sampler.
You can record samples in the Track area in Logic Pro, then drag them into Sampler.
For information about creating zones and groups, see Create zones and Create groups.
Quickly create an instrument
To quickly create an instrument in Sampler, just drag one or more samples onto the
Navigation bar. Sampler analyzes the samples, creates zones containing the samples, and
then maps the zones to keys.
To simplify instrument creation, the Navigation bar provides Chromatic and Optimized
dropzones:
• When you drag one or more samples onto the Chromatic dropzone, Sampler
chromatically maps samples as zones across the keyboard range, starting from C2.
Each zone is mapped to a single key on the keyboard. The original file length, tuning,
and volume are used. Looping data is read from the file header, if present. The root key
can also be read from the filename.
Note: The Read Root Key from preference has a significant impact on chromatic import
behavior. For details, see the Sampler Preferences section in the Logic Pro User Guide.