13. Each region has the four velocity splits that were represented by the four folders of samples.

Each sample is mapped by its pitch to the appropriate region on the keyboard.

If we don’t have a sample for every half step, samples will be pitch stretched up and down so that every note of the requested keyboard range is covered. (When a “missing” sample is equally distant from both of its neighbors, the higher sample will be stretched down to cover that note.)

Doing this by hand would have taken at least an hour.

The instrument is now mapped out. Save it and load it to a MIDI channel to hear what it sounds like and start tweaking it.

Chromatic vs. Non-Chromatic mapping

In the example above, we chose to map the notes chromatically even though the samples are not chromatic. (This was the “Create Regions every 1 half step” option on Page 2 of the Wizard.)

Alternatively we could have created one region per sample to be able to better see where the samples are.

The disadvantage of doing it this way is that it limits the note-by-note parameter tweaking that can be done if the regions are laid out chromatically. The results sound the same initially with either method but the ability to make chromatic edits is limited.

Here is an example using the Region Window. Let’s say we want to make the Release Time short at the top of the keyboard and have it gradually get longer toward the lower register.

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4 specifications

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