Operation Manual

NN-19 SAMPLER
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About Key Zones and
Samples
Loading a Sample into an empty NN-19
1. Create a new sampler device.
2. Click on the sample browser button.
This is located above the keyboard display to the left.
✪ When you browse samples, you can preview them before loading using
the browser Play button. If you select the Preview “Autoplay” function,
the samples play back once automatically when selected.
3. Use the browser to select a sample and open it.
When you load the first sample into an empty NN-19, this will be assigned a key zone
that spans the entire range of the keyboard, and the default Init Patch settings will be
used.
Below the keyboard, the range, sample name, root key, tuning, level and loop status of
the current key zone is displayed, each with a corresponding knob.
The light blue strip above the keyboard indicates the currently selected key zone, which is in this case
the full range of the keyboard.
The inverted note on the keyboard indicates the “root key” of the sample. All samples
contain a root key, tuning and level setting. If NN-19 is empty, a sample will have its
root key placed on the middle “C” (C3) key.
4. If desired, click on the keyboard to change the root key.
! You can audition a loaded sample patch or sample by holding down [Op-
tion] (Mac)/[Alt] (Windows) and clicking on a key in the Keyboard dis-
play. The mouse will take on the shape of a speaker symbol to indicate
this.
Loading SoundFont samples
The SoundFont format was developed by E-mu systems in collaboration with Creative
Technologies. It is a standardized data format containing wavetable synthesized audio
and information on how it should be played back in wavetable synthesizers - typically
on audio cards. The SoundFont format is an open standard so there is a vast amount
of SoundFont banks and SoundFont compatible banks developed by third parties.
The samples in a SoundFont are stored hierarchically in different categories: User
Samples, Instruments, Presets etc. The NN-19 allows you to browse for and load sin-
gle SoundFont samples, but not entire soundfonts.
1. Use the sample browser to select a SoundFont file (.sf2) and open it.
The browser opens the SoundFont and displays the folders within it.
2. Select the folder “Samples” and open it.
This folder contains a number of samples which can be loaded like any other sam-
ple.
3. Select the desired sample and open it.
The sample is loaded and assigned a key zone range that spans the entire key-
board. You can now make settings for it as with any other sample.
Loading REX slices as samples
A slice is a snippet of sound in a REX File. To import a REX slice, click the sample
browser button (see above), browse to a REX file and open it as if it was a folder. The
browser will then display the slices as files inside that “folder”.
In the rest of this manual, when we refer to importing samples, all that is said applies
to REX slices as well.