9.5 Sampling & Recording Audio within Kits

Kits are a great environment for sampling audio. Samples can be recorded and arranged into a kit. Kits can be combination of samples or synth sounds.

Recording an audio sample in to a new kit

1. Input will be line-IN or mic (external or internal). The mic gain can be changed on the input switch.
2. Press Shift + Kit from clip view to create a blank a kit clip.
3. The browser will open to select a sample from the SD card or a previous last recent recording may by appear on the grid.
4. Press Record. Button illuminates flashing red and the display indicates ‘RECORDING’ to indicate that recording has started.
5. Press Record again to end recording. Recording ends and is normalised.
6. The recording is assigned to a row of pads indicated by a green Mute.
7. Press Audition to play back the sample.

Recording an audio sample into an existing kit

1. Input will be line-IN or mic (external or internal). The mic gain can be changed on the input switch.
2. Press Kit from clip view and selected a kit to record into.
3. Press & hold Audition of blank or selected row + Record.
4. Recording will start. Button illuminates flashing red and the display indicates ‘RECORDING’ to indicate that recording in progress.
5. Press Record again to end recording. Recording ends and is normalised.
6. The recording is assigned to a row of pads indicated by a green Mute.
7. Press Audition to play back the sample.

Setting sampling input monitoring

1. Press Shift + Settings to open settings menu.
2. turn Select to highlight ‘RECORDING’ - recording option.
3. Press Select.
4. turn Select to highlight ‘SAMPLING MONITORING’
5. Press Select to open monitoring options.
6. turn Select to highlight:
   • ON: switches monitoring when recording samples on.
   • OFF: switches monitoring when recording samples off.
   • CONDITIONAL (Default): conditional monitoring. Recording from a microphone (internal or external) AND headphones connected, monitoring will occur. Recording using the LINE IN input, monitoring will always occur.

Slicing audio across a new kit

1. Press Shift + Kit from clip view to create a new kit clip.
2. The browser will open to select a sample from the SD card or a previous last recent recording may by appear on the grid.
3. To use a previous recorded samples use Select to scroll through files and folders. To select another file or folder from within the browser, press Back/Undo to back out of the recording files and navigate others. Selections may default to previously selected folder / file.
4. Press & hold Select while the desired sample is in view / in-focus to open the sampling context sub menu.
5. turn Select to highlight ‘SLICE’
6. Press Select. Number of slices is indicated at which to divide the sample. 16 is default. turn Select to adjust, example, to 8. Note that pressing Horizontal within this menu will open the lazy slice manual slicing function.
7. Press Select to slice the sample across the elected number of pads.

C1.1 Default slice mode. Unwritten: you can help by adding content.

See Sample Slice Default Mode.

Lazy chop manual slicing audio in a kit

1. Press Shift + Kit from clip view to create a new kit clip.
2. The browser will open to select a sample from the SD card or a previous last recent recording may by appear on the grid.
3. To use a previous recorded samples use Select to scroll through files and folders. To select another file or folder from within the browser, press Back/Undo to back out of the recording files and navigate others. Selections may default to previously selected folder / file.
4. Press & hold Select while the desired sample is in view / in-focus to open the sampling context sub menu.
5. turn Select to highlight ‘SLICE’ and press Select to open the slice menu options.
6. Press Horizontal while displaying the ‘NUM SLICES’ option to open the lazy slice manual slicing function. The pads will revert to a lazy chop layout and one slice will be the default state.
7. To chop / slice the sample:
   • Press the bottom left green Pad to start the sample playback.
   • The upper 4 rows are the white sample illustration while the lower 4 rows are the available trigger / slice blue pads.
   • During playback, press any empty lower trigger / slice Pad on a column at the point of applying a sample slice. Slicing is performed manually in real time so the point each slice is selected will determine its position in the sample.
   • Slice points will show as green in the upper sample grid. Bright green is the active slice start and dimmed pads are available, deselected slices. White pads illustrate the sample.
   • When complete, the Pad selected to apply a slice will now playback that slice. Active slice pads are lit blue and inactive pads dimmed blue.
   • Pressing a lower grid Pad i.e. lit blue, will trigger the selected slice. The slice selected will be brightly lit green.
8. To edit, while still in the slicer:
   • turn Select counter clockwise to delete a slice.
   • Alternately, Hold Pad + Save to delete a selected slice.
   • turn Horizontal to adjust the selected slice start point.
   • turn Vertical to transpose the selected slice. Range is across +/-24 semitones.
9. Press Select to confirm and conclude slicing. The audition pads will now represent slices.

Sample is represented on the upper pads and plays left to right when the bottom left green pad is triggered ie start point.

Other slices can be captured across the duration of the sample.

The currently active slice is lit bright green. Other available slices are identified by dimmed green pads. When exiting the slicer, the slices will be represented on the audition pads.

Sample Waveform

Slice Pads

Sounds sending MIDI notes C1.3

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