5. These non-contiguous regions can then be moved around the Region Window. They will maintain their relationship with each other wherever you put them.

Again, regions are not allowed to overlap, so the editor will not allow you to drop one region on top of another.

Creating a Dimension

Once we’ve created some regions, all we need to do to create a playable instrument is map appropriate samples to the regions. And there’s a very straightforward way to do that: just drag a sample from the Sample Window and drop it on a region. This would give us an extremely simple region that does nothing more than play a single sample.

While a region that simple might have its uses, we’ll take things a small step further here and give our new region a single dimension, so that we can make it more musically expressive by assigning multiple samples to it. (Remember that a region can have up to eight dimensions, all working simultaneously, so this example will just hint at the possibilities.)

One of the most common dimensions is the Velocity dimension, which will enable us to trigger different samples depending on MIDI velocity. In fact, this type of dimension is used so frequently that the largest of the dimension windows is assigned permanently to Velocity.

In this illustration, the Velocity dimension has no splits and is inactive. To create velocity splits, click on the header bar at the top of the window.

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4 specifications

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