User Manual

MENU AND DIALOG REFERENCE
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Sort Zones by Velocity
This menu item is used with the NN-XT sampler. This option lets you automatically sort the selected zones within a
Group in descending order according to their set low or high velocity values.
When you invoke this option, the selected zones will be sorted from top to bottom starting with the one with the high-
est “Lo Vel “value.
If two or more zones have the same velocity range, they are instead sorted by key range.
Group Selected Zones
This menu item is used with the NN-XT sampler. It lets you put any number of selected zones together in a group.
Grouping zones is good for two things:
D To allow you to quickly select a number of zones that “belong together.”
For example if you have created a layered sound consisting of piano and strings, you could put all string samples
in one group and all piano samples in one group. Then you can quickly select all piano samples and make an ad-
justment to them by trimming a parameter.
D To group zones that need to share group settings together.
For example, you may want to set a group to legato and monophonic mode and add some portamento so that you
can play a part where you slide between notes.
Proceed as follows:
1. Select the zones you want to group together.
The zones don’t have to be contiguous in order to be grouped. Regardless of their original positions in the samples
column, they will all be put together in succession.
2. Select “Group Selected Zones”.
The zones are grouped.
Note that there is always at least one group, since the zones you create are always grouped together by default.
Set Root Notes from Pitch Detection
This menu item is used with the NN-XT sampler. All instrument sounds have an inherent pitch. When playing a sam-
ple of such a sound on the keyboard, the keys you play must correspond to that pitch. For example, you may have re-
corded a piano playing the key “C3”. When you map this onto the NN-XT key map, you must set things up so that the
sampler plays back the sample at original pitch when you press the key C3, and this is done by adjusting the root
note.
The NN-XT features a pitch detection function to help you set the root keys of loaded samples. This is useful if you
for example load a sample that you haven’t recorded yourself, and you don’t have any information about its original
pitch.
Proceed as follows:
1. Select all the zones you want to be subject to pitch detection.
2. Select “Set Root Notes from Pitch Detection”.
The samples in all the selected zones will now be analyzed, and the detected root keys will automatically be set for
you.
! Note that for this to work properly, the samples must have some form of perceivable pitch. If it is sampled
speech, or a snare drum for example, it probably doesn’t have any discernible pitch.