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SAMPLE PANEL

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To the right of the Pitch Mode selector is a button labeled “Retrigger,” which is engaged by

default. With this engaged, every new “note on” MIDI message will start playback of the

sample over again (notes that had been played previously may continue to sustain if their

respective amplitude envelope is set with a long decay time). With this disengaged, you

can play through multiple pitches and each one will pick up at the sample location where

the last one left o.

The Root Note, or MIDI note at which the loaded samples plays back at its native speed

and pitch, can be adjusted using the non-modulatable Root Note knob. Root note is

detected and set automatically by Iris 2 as soon as a sample is loaded, but you can adjust

this by adjusting the Root Note knob or by dragging the ﬂag to the desired pitch in the

Keyboard Panel. Note that after making a Spectral Filter selection, the fundamental pitch of

the sample may change. In a case like this, Root Note can be detected and automatically

reset after a selection has been made by right-clicking on the Spectrogram and clicking on

‘Set Auto-Detected Root Note’.

There are additional sample playback controls like Loop Start/End, Crossfade, Oset and

Delay in the Spectrogram View.

SAMPLE TUNE CONTROLS

Below the Sample Playback controls are knob controls for Coarse and Fine Tune. Both are

modulatable, and their default position of zero (no pitch change) is when the knob pointer

is pointing straight up.

Coarse Tuning is measured and adjusted in semitones (also called half-steps), but ramps

smoothly across its entire six-octave range when modulated. Fine tuning is measured and

adjusted in cents (100 ct = 1 semitone in equal temperament) and also ramps smoothly

when modulated. Adjust the Fine Tune control by clicking and dragging on the knob.

This will move up/down in 1 ct steps. If you hold down Command (Mac) or Ctrl (PC) while

clicking and dragging, you can move in .1 ct steps. You can also select the knob by clicking

on it once, and then use the up/down arrows on your keyboard to increase in .5 ct steps,

or hold down Command (Mac) or Ctrl (PC) while using the up/down arrows to move in in .1

ct steps. If you need even more resolution than this, you can double-click on the value and

type in a value out to 5 decimal places (e.g., 5.98423 ct).

To restore either of these controls to their default state of zero (no pitch change), simply

hold down the Option key and click on the knob itself.