Korg Electric Keyboard manual START/STOP key, Audition key

4. Sampling mode

If the EXB-SMPL option (sold separately) is installed in the TRITON Le, you will be able to use Sampling mode to record 48 kHz stereo 16-bit samples. (☞ For details on install- ing an option board, refer to p.253.)

If the EXB-SMPL option is not installed, pressing the [SAMPLING] key will display a message of “No Sam- pling Upgrade Installed.”

“Sampling” refers to the process of digitally converting an analog signal from a mic or audio device connected to the AUDIO INPUT jack, and recording it into internal memory. You can also apply the insert effect to the analog audio sig- nal while it is being sampled.

If the sample data RAM (16 Mbyte SIMM memory) included with the EXB-SMPL is installed, you will be able to sample approximately 2 minutes 54 seconds in monaural, or approximately 1 minute 27 seconds in stereo. By installing additional 72-pin SIMM boards you can expand the memory to a maximum of 64 Mbytes (two 32 Mbyte SIMM units). In this case, you will be able to record up to four samples that are each approximately 2 minutes 54 seconds long for mon- aural (or approximately 1 minute 17 seconds for stereo), for a total of approximately 11 minutes 39 seconds of sampling (total of approximately 5 minutes 49 seconds for stereo).

(☞ For details on installing compatible 72-pin SIMM boards, refer to p.253.)

In Sampling mode, samples that have been sampled or loaded from storage media can be assigned to an index (zone) to create a multisample. One multisample can contain many indexes.

A multisample can easily be converted into a program

(☞ “Conv. To Prog” 1.1–3f). Once the multisample is con- verted it can be played and programmed like any other pro- gram sound. This program can also be used in Combination or Sequencer mode.

Samples can also be used as drum samples in a drum kit.

When you turn off the power, all multisample and sam- ple data in Sampling mode will be lost. Before you turn off the power, any data you want to keep must be saved on Smart Media or an external SCSI device (if the EXB- SMPL option is installed) (☞ p.149). Immediately after the power is turned on, internal memory will not con- tain sample data, so you will need to load the previ- ously-saved data in order to play or edit it.

There is no Compare function that allows you to restore edited data to the state before it was edited. If you wish to preserve the unedited state of the data, use “Copy MS” or “Copy SMPL” (1.1–3f) etc. to make a copy of the multisample or sample before you begin editing.

For some of the utility menu commands in 2.1: Sample

Edit or 3.1: Loop Edit, executing the command without checking “Overwrite” in the dialog box allows you to save the unedited sample data while you edit. (☞ 2.1– 2e: UTILITY “About Overwrite”)

When executing a sample edit operation or when you finish recording a stereo sample, you may hear a slight noise. This does not affect the audio data that has been edited or sampled.

Cautions regarding sample data

•The sample data memory areas Bank 1–4 each contain 16 MB. Of this 16 MB (8,388,608 samples), sixteen samples (the first and last eight samples) are used as internal work area.

•The first and last samples of each sample are used as internal work area. These two samples are added automatically when a sample is recorded or when an

.AIFF or .WAVE file is loaded. This means that if you record a sample of one second, this will result in 48,000 samples of data, but four samples will be added to this, so that sampling memory will actually contain 48,004 samples of data.

4.1 3.1 2.1 1.1 SMPL

	Multisample
Index001	Index002	Index003		Index004
Top Key	Top Key	Top Key		Top Key
Index 001	Index 002	Index 003	Index 004
0000:	0001:	0002:	0003:
Sample A	Sample B	Sample C	Sample D
Multisample		Program OSC (Single/Double)
Sample	Drum Kit	Program OSC (Drums)

In any page, the selected multisample or sample will sound when you play the keyboard, letting you hear the results of your editing in that page.

How the [AUDITION] key and [START/STOP] key will function in Sampling mode

[START/STOP] key

•Sampling (sample recording) can be performed in any page 1.1–7.1 of Sampling mode by using the [REC/ WRITE] and [START/STOP] keys (For the sampling procedure, refer to BG p.34).

Recording settings such as the input level can be made in SMPL 1.1–3: Recording Input/Pref page, and these set- tings are also valid in the other pages.

•In the 2.1: Sample Edit2 page, pressing the [START/ STOP] key will play the sample of the selected “Index” from “S (Edit Range Start)” to “E (Edit Range End)” in one-shot mode. At this time, the sample will sound at the pitch of the base key.

[AUDITION] key

•The sample of the currently selected “Index” will be played at the pitch of the currently selected key (the key displayed in gray in “Keyboard & Index”: 1.1–1a) as long as you hold down the [AUDITION] key.

•In the Slice Sample dialog box of Utility “Time Slice” (3.1–2e) and in the Stretch Sample dialog box of Utility “Time Stretch” (3.1–2e), the sample of the currently selected “Index” will be played at the original key as long as you hold down the [AUDITION] key.

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