Specifications

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Moving a Group to another Position in the List
D Click on the group in the Groups column and drag up or down with
the mouse button pressed.
An outline of the group you move is superimposed upon the display to help
you navigate to the desired position.
Dragging a group to a new position.
3. Release the mouse button at the desired position.
The group and all its zones appear at the new position.
Moving a Zone from one Group to another
This is done just as when rearranging samples in the list, as described on the
previous page. The only difference is that you drag the zone from one group to
another.
Selecting a Group and/or Zones in a Group
D Clicking on a group in the groups column selects the group and all
the zones in the group.
D Clicking on a zone in the samples column selects the group (and
that zone).
The Group Parameters
There are a few parameters on the front panel that apply specifically to groups.
see page 174 for details.
Working with Key Ranges
About Key Ranges
Each zone can have its own separate key range, the lowest and the highest key
that will trigger the sample.
A good example of use for this is when sampling a certain instrument. Sampling
of a piano for example is usually performed by making several recordings of dif-
ferent notes at close intervals, and then mapping these samples to separate,
contiguous, fairly narrow key ranges. This concept is called multi-sampling.
The reason for this is that if one single sample is played across the entire key-
board, it will most likely sound very unnatural when played too far from its original
pitch, since the amount you can transpose a sound without negatively affecting
its timbre is very limited.
Setting up Key Ranges
You can adjust the key range of zones in a number of ways:
By Dragging the Zone Boundary Handles
1. Select the zone in the Key Range area.
2. Point and click on one of the handles that appear at each end.
3. Drag the handle left/right.
Dotted lines extend from the edges of the zones up to the keyboard area.
These lines give you a visual indication of which keys the key range will en-
compass. There is also an alphanumerical indication at the bottom left of the
display.
Clicking and dragging the high key boundary handle
of a zone with the default key range of C1 - C6...
...to change the key range to C1 - C2.