The final thing we will do to the cymbals is enable the “Self Masking” articulation parameter to save polyphony. With Self Masking enabled, playing louder velocities will shut off any sustaining softer velocities on the same region that are still decaying.
For example, these cymbals have several seconds of decay. If you play a soft note, the sample will play to the end of the decay no matter what. You could trigger a louder note while the soft sample is still decaying and drown out the soft sample. However, even though you can’t hear the soft sample any longer, it would still be using up polyphony until it is finished decaying. With Self Masking enabled, the louder note will cut off the softer note.
8.Before enabling Self Masking, trigger one of the cymbals several times from soft to loud. Watch the polyphony meter (on the status bar at the bottom of the Editor) and notice how much polyphony it uses.
9.Select all four of the cymbal regions.
10.Select all the velocity splits. Now when we edit a parameter, the new value will be applied to all of the splits in all of the regions.
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