Creating equally-divided samples (step sampling)

Step sampling is a function that creates a number of individual samples based on the sampling time you specify with the [START] knob.

Although normal sampling creates one sample per sample pad, step sampling lets you create multiple samples for a single sample pad.

After sampling is finished, a note number is assigned to each sample, and you can use the keyboard buttons or an external MIDI keyboard to play the samples.

  1. Use “Sampling settings” to enable the step sampling function.
  2. Sets the number of individual samples (S. 2–S. 64) created by the step sampling function.
  3. Also, configure the sample rate, mono/stereo, sample length and the trigger used to start sampling as necessary.
  4. Press the sample pad to which you want to assign the sample.
  5. The [SAMPLING] button blinks.

  6. MEMO

    You can’t select a sample pad to which a sample is already assigned, meaning that pad can’t be used for sampling.

    To sample, either select a sample pad that doesn’t have a sample assigned to it (unassigned sample pads are blinking), or delete a sample from the desired sampled pad beforehand.

    Refer to “Deleting a sample” for how to delete a sample from a sample pad.

  7. Press the [SAMPLING] button.
  8. Sampling begins.

  9. MEMO

    1. The timing at which sampling begins depends on the trigger setting used for starting the sampling.
      Refer to “Sampling settings” for details.
    2. You can redo the samples you previously made during step sampling if you don’t like what you did.
      Use the [TEMPO/VALUE] knob to select the step for which you want to redo the sampling (the “split position”), and press the [SAMPLING] button.
  10. Repeat step 3 (in other words, repeat the sampling).
  11. Once you’ve reached the specified number of samples by repeating the sampling process, “End” blinks in the display.
  12. The samples are now saved to the pad you specified, and a note number is assigned to each sample.
  13. The note numbers are assigned as follows.
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Split (individual) samples

Note number (key)

Sample #1

60 (C4)

Sample #2

61 (C´4)

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Sample #64

123 (D´9)

MEMO

  1. The sample pitches do not change (meaning that no scale is applied) even when note numbers are assigned to the individual samples.
  2. Refer to “Using the keyboard buttons to play the samples” for how to check the sound of the individual samples.
  3. Refer to “Layering and triggering the same sample (polyphonic)” for how to layer and play the individual samples.