Main functions

Structure Basic

■Loop

This is used primarily to create long continuous sounds, such as brass and strings, or instruments with naturally long decay, such as piano. An appropriate part of the sample near the end is looped to reproduce a long sustain or decay.

When you play a note on the keyboard, the Sample plays from the start point to the end point. It then returns to the loop start point and plays to the end point again, and keeps doing this until you release the note. With musical instruments in general, the characteristic part of the sound (the “attack” section) is usually at the beginning, just after the start point. After this, the sound does not vary a great deal while the note is being held, and you can set the loop and end points at either end of this section. When playing back a Sample of an instrument that has been looped like this, the attack section of the sound is played back once and then the looped section is played back continuously until you release the note. Looping is also way of creating usable instrument sounds without using up too much memory.

You can set each point in the Sampling mode. Since the MOTIF is capable of displaying the entire image of the sampled audio data in the LCD (zoom in and zoom out are available), you can edit the loop points visually — making sample editing accurate and easy.

Sample Wave

Loop Playback

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Start Pont

Top Point

End Point

■Reverse

When you press a note on the keyboard, the Sample plays from end to beginning just once. This is useful for creating reversed cymbal sounds and other special effects.

Start Point

End Point

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