User Manual

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NN-19 SAMPLER

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! Note that the controls in this section cannot be used to tune samples against each other, as all samples will be

affected equally. To tune individual samples, you use the Tune parameter below the keyboard display (see

“Tuning samples”).

Keyboard Tracking

The Osc section has a button named “Kbd. Track”. If this is switched off, the sample’s pitch will remain constant, re-

gardless of any incoming note pitch messages, although the oscillator still reacts to note on/off messages. This could

be useful if you are using non-pitched samples, like drums for example. You could then play a sample in a zone using

several keys, allowing for faster note triggering if you wanted to play a drum roll, for example.

Osc Envelope Amount

This parameter determines to what degree the overall pitch of the samples will be affected by the Filter Envelope

(see “Filter Envelope”). You can set negative or positive values here, which determines whether an envelope param-

eter should raise or lower the pitch.

The Filter Section

Filters are used for shaping the overall timbre of the sound. The filter in NN-19 is a multimode filter with five filter

types.

Filter Mode

With this selector you can set the filter to operate as one of five different types of filter. These are as follows:

• 24 dB Lowpass (LP 24)

Lowpass filters lets low frequencies pass and cuts out the high frequencies. This filter type has a fairly steep roll-

off curve (24dB/Octave). Many classic synthesizers (Minimoog/Prophet 5 etc.) used this filter type.

• 12 dB Lowpass (LP 12)

This type of lowpass filter is also widely used in classic analog synthesizers (Oberheim, TB-303 etc.). It has a gen-

tler slope (12 dB/Octave), leaving more of the harmonics in the filtered sound compared to the LP 24 filter.

• Bandpass (BP 12)

A bandpass filter cuts both high and low frequencies, while midrange frequencies are not affected. Each slope in

this filter type has a 12 dB/Octave roll-off.

• High-Pass (HP12)

A highpass filter is the opposite of a lowpass filter, cutting out the lower frequencies and letting the high frequen-

cies pass. The HP filter slope has a 12 dB/Octave roll-off.

•Notch

A notch filter (or band reject filter) could be described as the opposite of a bandpass filter. It cuts off frequencies

in a narrow midrange band, letting the frequencies below and above through.