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NN-XT SAMPLER

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Managing Zones and

Samples

Creating a Key Map

When you add an NN-XT sampler to the rack, its key map display is always empty.

That is, it contains no samples.

To create a new key map, proceed as follows:

1. Either click the Browse Samples button, select Browse Samples from the

Edit menu or select Browse Samples from the NN-XT’s context menu.

This will bring up the regular Reason file browser.

The Browse Samples button.

2. Select the sample or samples that you want to load in the browser and click

“OK”.

The selected sample(s) are loaded into the NN-XT.

When new samples are loaded into the NN-XT they have the following properties:

• Each sample is placed in its own zone.

• Each zone spans a key range of five octaves on the keyboard - C1 to C6.

• All the newly added sample(s)/zones are automatically selected.

• The first added zone gets edit focus.

A key map with four newly added samples.

Setting Root Notes and Key Ranges

The next step after loading the samples is most likely to adjust the key range, root note

and tuning of the samples, so that they play sensibly across the key range. There are

many ways of doing this, described on page 267 and onwards. However, we will here

briefly describe a procedure for quickly creating a complete key map out of a set of

loaded samples.

This example assumes that the samples you load is a set of multisamples for a pitched

instrument (like guitar, piano, flute etc.).

1. Load the samples.

2. Use “Select All” on the Edit menu to select all the loaded samples.

3. Use “Set Root Notes from Pitch Detection” to automatically set up the root

notes (pitches) for the samples.

4. Select “Automap Zones” from the Edit menu.

All selected zones are automatically arranged into a basic key map. You can now pro-

ceed with adjusting the synth parameters on the front panel to shape the sound!

About File Formats and REX Slices

The NN-XT can import various types of samples:

D Standard Wave files

These have the extension “.wav”. This is the standard audio file format for the PC

platform. Any audio or sample editor, regardless of platform, can read and create

audio files in Wave format. Any sample rate and practically any bit resolution is

supported.

D Standard AIFF files

These have the extension “.aif” and this is the standard audio file format for the

Mac platform. Again, any audio editor can read and create audio files in this format.

Any sample rate and practically any bit resolution is supported.

D SoundFont samples

This is a standardized data format containing wavetable synthesized audio and in-

formation on how it should be played back in wavetable synthesizers - typically on

audio cards. SoundFont banks are hierarchically organized into different catego-

ries: User Samples, Instruments, Presets etc. The NN-XT lets you load single sam-

ples from within a Soundfont bank.

D REX file slices

A slice is a snippet of sound in a REX File (see page 257). To import a REX slice,

browse to a REX file and open it as if it was a folder. The browser will then display

the slices as files inside that “folder”. In the rest of this manual, when we refer to

importing samples, all that is said applies to REX slices as well.

! If you want files to play back with their original bit depth - if higher than

16-bits - make sure to activate “Use High Resolution Samples” on the

General page in the Preferences dialog. Otherwise, samples will be

played back as 16-bit files in NN-XT regardless of their original bit depth.

Adding More Samples to the Key Map

You can add additional samples to an existing key map way described above.

1. Make sure that no already loaded sample has edit focus.

If you don’t, there’s a risk that the selected sample will be replaced, see below. To

remove the edit focus, click in an unoccupied area in the Sample column or the

key map area.

2. Open the Sample Browser.

3. Select the sample(s) you want to load in the browser and click “OK”.

The new sample(s) are added to the key map.

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