Specifications

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1. Select the zones you want to group together.
The zones don’t have to be contiguous in order to be grouped. Regardless
of their original positions in the samples column, they will all be put together
in succession.
2. Select “Group Selected Zones”.
The zones are grouped.
Note that there is always at least one group, since the zones you create are al-
ways grouped together by default.
Set Root Notes from Pitch Detection
This menu item is used with the NN-XT sampler. All instrument sounds have an
inherent pitch. When playing a sample of such a sound on the keyboard, the
keys you play must correspond to that pitch. For example, you may have re-
corded a piano playing the key “C3”. When you map this onto the NN-XT key
map, you must set things up so that the sampler plays back the sample at origi-
nal pitch when you press the key C3, and this is done by adjusting the root note.
The NN-XT features a pitch detection function to help you set the root keys of
loaded samples. This is useful if you for example load a sample that you haven’t
recorded yourself, and you don’t have any information about its original pitch.
Proceed as follows:
1. Select all the zones you want to be subject to pitch detection.
2. Select “Set Root Notes from Pitch Detection”.
The samples in all the selected zones will now be analyzed, and the detected
root keys will automatically be set for you.
! Note that for this to work properly, the samples must have some
form of perceivable pitch. If it is sampled speech, or a snare drum
for example, it probably doesn’t have any discernible pitch.
Automap Zones
This menu item is used with the NN-XT sampler. The automap function can be
used as a quick way of creating a key map, or as a good starting point for further
adjustments of a key map.
Automap works under the assumption that you intend to create a key map for a
complete instrument, for example a number of samples of a piano, all at different
pitches.
1. Load the samples you want to Automap.
Now you have three options:
• Trust that the root note information in the files is already correct.
• Manually adjust the root notes (and tuning) for all the samples.
• Use “Set Root Notes from Pitch Detection” to automatically set up the root
notes.
2. Select all zones you want to automap.
3. Select Automap Zones.
All the selected zones will now be arranged automatically in the following way:
D The zones will be sorted in the display (from top to bottom - lowest
key first) according to the root keys.
D The zones will be assigned key ranges according to the root keys.
The key ranges are set up so that the split between two zones is exactly in
the middle between the zones’ root notes. If two zones have the same root
key they will be assigned the same key range.
Create Velocity Crossfades
This menu item is used with the NN-XT sampler. This is used for automatically
setting up velocity crossfades for smooth transitions between overlapping
zones. To set up crossfades, you adjust the fade out and fade in values for the
overlapping zones.
An example:
D Two zones are both set to play in the full velocity range of 1-127.
D Zone 1 has a fade out value of 40.
This means that this zone will play at full level with velocity values below 40,
With higher velocity values, it will gradually fade out.
D Zone 2 has a fade in value of 80.
This has the effect that as you play velocity values up to 80, this zone will
gradually fade in. With velocity values above 80, it will play at full level.
Instead of manually setting up a crossfade, you can let NN-XT do it for you. Pro-
ceed as follows:
1. Set up the zones so that their velocity ranges overlap, as desired.
2. Select the zones.
You can select as many zones as you wish, not just one pair of overlapping
zones.
3. Select “Create Velocity Crossfades”.
NN-XT will analyze the overlapping zones and automatically set up what it
deems to be appropriate fade in and fade out values for the zones.
Note the following important points:
D This operation will not work if both zones have full velocity ranges.
At least one of the zones must have a partial velocity range (see page 170).
D This operation will not work if the zones are completely overlap-
ping.