12. SAMPLES
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12. SAMPLES
12.1 ABOUT SAMPLES
A sample is a 16 bit, 48 kHz, mono audio file.
Each of the six tracks in a pattern can contain one sample. A sample that is imported from the +Drive to a
pattern becomes part of the active pattern. Any parameter changes applied to a sample will therefore not
affect the stored sample. It only affects the sample in the active pattern.
A sample used in a pattern can be renamed or moved and still work as intended. This is due to a hash
function that adds a file specific value to every file, and this value is independent of the file name or the file’s
location in the data structure. However, if you delete a sample, it is not included in any patterns anymore.
If you delete a sample from the +Drive, it will not be included in any projects or patterns
anymore.
12.2 THE +DRIVE SAMPLE LIBRARY
The +Drive sample library is where all the samples are stored and can hold up to 1 GB of samples. You can
have up to 576 samples (6 banks × 16 patterns × 6 tracks) - with a maximum combined size of 64 MB (about
11 minutes) - in the RAM of every project. A sample that is used on several tracks does not take up addition-
al space in the RAM.
12.3 ASSIGNING A SAMPLE TO A TRACK
You can assign any of the samples in the +Drive to any of the audio tracks.
1. Press
[TRACK]
+
[T1–6]
to select a track.
2. Press
[WAVE]
to open the SAMPLE ASSIGN menu.
3. Use the
LEVEL/DATA
knob to navigate the folder structure to the sample you want to assign. Press
[BACK]
to navigate up one level in the folder hierarchy if needed. Press the
[TRIG]
key
of the
active track while browsing to listen to the sample currently highlighted.
4. Press
LEVEL/DATA
to select a sample. Press
[BACK]
to exit the list without selecting a sample.
Once you have assigned the sample to a track, it can be triggered either by the sequencer or manually by
pressing a
[TRIG]
or
[T1–6]
key.
You can also load multiple samples at the same time.
In the SAMPLE ASSIGN menu, highlight a folder and then press and hold
LEVEL/DATA
for a
second. A popup appears that reads “LOAD WHOLE DIR” Press “YES” to load multiple sam-
ples from that folder to Model:Samples tracks.
It checks all files in the directory for a suffix of 1-6 and loads the files matching this criteria
to the respective track. If no matching file is found for a track, it fills the blank tracks with
the first other not-yet-loaded samples in the folder. So if you have the samples BD01, SD03,
MYSAMPLE999, CHORDY and HIHAT6 in a directory, it would load T1=BD01, T2=CHORDY,
T3=SD03, T4=MYSAMPLE999 and T6=HIHAT6. T5 will be blank (if it did not previously con-
tain a sample).
