Sample Mode Playback Triggering
Sample mode playback is a bit more nuanced than the other modes. In Sine and Square modes, the
waveform sample is very short and loops continuously at such a rate that your ears can't tell when the
waveform is restarting from the beginning. It sounds solid.
This will not usually be the case during Sample mode playback since most of the samples you record
will have a distinct beginning and end. In describing the different sample playback behaviors, I use
the word “re-trigger” to mean that the sample has restarted playback from its beginning.
For example: if your sampled phrase is, “I'm just here to buy some bandages” and you kept re-
triggering the sample after the word “here”, the phrase would then sound like, “I'm just here I'm just
here I'm just here I'm just here I'm just here I'm just here I'm just here”. You get it.
Sample re-triggering is only active in Polyphonic mode
. When in this mode,
any received Note
On message
will cause all currently playing samples to restart from their beginning. This is very
useful for re-triggering vocal phrases or general playback synchronization.
In Sustain mode
, a sample will only be re-triggered when a
Note Off then Note On
message
sequence is received for its corresponding note number.
In Monophonic mode
, a sample will only be re-triggered when a
Note Off then Note On
message
sequence is received, only if the
Note Off
message resulted in silencing the audio output.
These behaviors will make much more sense once you start working with Sample mode playback.
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