Specifications

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 set-
tings 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
[Option] (Mac)/[Alt] (Windows) and clicking on a key in the Key-
board display. The mouse will take on the shape of a speaker sym-
bol 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 stan-
dard 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 single 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
sample.
3. Select the desired sample and open it.
The sample is loaded and assigned a key zone range that spans the entire
keyboard. 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 sam-
ple 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 ap-
plies to REX slices as well.