Operation Manual

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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Working with Grouping 514
About Groups 514
Creating a Group 514
Moving a Group to another position in the List 515
Moving a Zone from one Group to another 515
Selecting a Group and/or Zones in a Group 516
The Group Parameters 516
Working with Key Ranges 516
About Key Ranges 516
Setting up Key Ranges 516
About the Lock Root Keys function 520
About the Solo Sample function 521
Sorting Zones by Note 522
Setting Root Notes and Tuning 523
About the Root Key 523
Setting the Root Note manually 523
Tuning samples manually 523
Setting the Root Note and Tuning using pitch
detection 524
About changing the pitch of samples 524
Using Automap 524
Layered, crossfaded and velocity
switched sounds 525
Creating layered sounds 525
About velocity ranges 525
Setting velocity range for a Zone 527
About Crossfading Between Zones 527
Setting crossfading for a Zone 529
Using Alternate 529
About the Alternate function 529
Sample parameters 530
Root Note and Tune 530
Sample Start and End 530
Loop Start and End 530
Play Mode 531
Lo Key and Hi Key 531
Lo Vel and Hi Vel 531
Fade In and Fade Out 531
Alt 531
Out 531
Group parameters 532
Key Poly 532
Legato and Retrig 533
LFO 1 Rate 533
Portamento 533
Synth parameters 534
The Modulation controls 534
The Velocity controls 536
The Pitch section 537
The Filter section 538
The Modulation Envelope 539
The Amplitude Envelope 541
The LFOs 542
Connections 544
Sequencer Control 544
Modulation Input 544
Gate Input 545
Audio Output 545
Dr. Octo Rex Loop Player 547
Introduction 548
ReCycled Loops 548
About REX file formats 549
Loading and saving Dr. Octo Rex
patches 549
About the Dr. Octo Rex patch format 549
About opening songs that previously used Dr. Rex
devices 549
Playing Loops 550
Switching playback between Loop Slots 550
Adding Loops 551
Loading Loops “On the Fly” 552
Removing Loops 552
Cut/Copy and Paste Loops between Loop Slots 552
Playing individual Loop Slices 552
Creating sequencer notes 553