7.To make the new Staccato samples sound when the Mod Wheel is pushed up, leave the upper Mod Wheel split selected while dragging the Staccato samples into the appropriate Velocity splits:

This gives us a fully two-dimensional region. You can switch between the loud and soft samples by playing harder or more softly on the keyboard, and at the same time, you can switch between the Sustain and Staccato samples by moving the Mod Wheel.

8.To hear the results of this new dimension, click on the Download button again. This will save the new changes and load the instrument.

Changing the Order of Dimension Splits

You might decide that you’d rather hear the Staccato samples, instead of the Sustain samples, when the Mod Wheel is in the lower part of its range. Fortunately, you can easily change the order of the splits in any dimension, even after they have been mapped to samples.

1.Right now, in the Mod Wheel dimension split, the Sustain samples are on the left (Mod Wheel down) and the Staccato samples are on the right (Mod Wheel up).

2.Click on the Mod Wheel dimension’s header to bring up the Dimension Controller dialog.

Highlight the “Sustain” split.

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4 specifications

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