TASCAM GigaEditor 4 Manual 187
Alternate Non-Legato Key 1 and 2. ese keys provide alternate sustaining samples wh en pressed.
You can toggle between the Default and Alternate Sustain articulations by pressing these keys between
notes. is is good for r epeating the same note with in a phrase. Instead of trigg ering a fresh starting
note, you can trigg er one of these alternate sampl es.
Legato reshold Time. is setting can help the Legato Mode rule adapt to your performance
technique on the keyboard. e threshold sets the time in which the tool will recognize two
consecutive notes as a legato transition. Experiment with this setting until it works best for you.
Ideally, the Releas e Time and reshold Time should be set t o the same valu e.
Release Time. is sets the delay time of the note-o. is value should match the Legato reshold
setting.
e raw material for a Legato Mode i nstrument will inclu de the following sets of samples:
Default Sustain samples. You need some basic long sustaini ng samples to serve as your d efault
samples. is is the art iculation that plays rst b efore sliding to another note.
Release Trigger sam ples. If you want to have the natural sound of the in strument release or some
natural room or hall ambience, you will need to create some standa rd release trigger samples. is is
usually done by cr eating a copy o f the sustain sa mples and then deleting every thing except th e tail.
Release Trigger samples are optio nal.
Alternate Sustain samples. ere is room i n a Legato Mode instrument for two alternate variation s of
the sustaining samples. Alternate Sustain amples are optional.
Legato Samples. To do a complete Legato Mod e instrument, you will need record ings of the
instrument sliding to and from every interval for every not e. e recording starts on the origi nal note,
then slides to the interval and holds the note. e length of this hold should match the Default Sustain
samples. e samples are then trimmed right at the slide leaving a little bit of the original note in the
samples. As with the Release Trigger samples, a little experimenting will be necessary to get the right
sound. To save sample space and recording time, you can skip every oth er note or every third note as
is done with other samples. You don’t want to go further than every third note though, or the timing
of the slides will b e too noticeabl e. e end result needs to be 24 folders of legato samples , 12 up and 12
down.
e articulations listed above need to be mapped in a strict order, using a 32- split Smart MIDI dimensio n.
One way to go about this is to create individual instruments for each articulation (sustain, release, etc.) and
then use the Combine Instruments function to assemble them in the proper order.