File formats
The Roland R-8 natively uses
mono samples
with a sample rate
of 44100 Hz and a bit depth of 16 Bit.
It is not necessary for you to convert your samples before im-
port. This is done by the software editor. We have built in an ex-
cellent resampler that converts your samples into the required
format with high quality. So, you don't have to worry about the
quality of your samples.
It doesn't matter if your samples are stereo, have a higher sam-
ple rate or bit depth.
Please note that samples with a sample rate higher than 44100
Hz will be converted to the native sample rate of the R-8 (44100
Hz). Samples with a sample rate lower than 44100Hz will be tak-
en over unchanged (this is only conditionally true, more about
this later).
At this point it should be mentioned for those interested that the
samples of the R-8 must be provided in a format compressed to
8 Bit.
A higher bit depth than 16 Bit does not help at all to a
higher quality.
In addition, the R-8 can theoretically even play samples up to a
sample rate of 192kHz. However, since this is complete humbug
for memory reasons and only makes the software unnecessarily
complicated, we have not further developed this possibility >
Please note! Currently only .WAV files can be loaded. Other for-
mats will follow soon...
General instrument settings
Now you can make general settings for the instrument. The gen-
eral instrument settings can be found at the top left of the win-
dow.
You have already learned how to edit the name of the instrument
in the paragraph
Editing a card
.
All parameters are the same as those you know from the R-8.
They can be preset here but can also be changed later on the
instrument itself.
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