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Auditioning Samples
You can play back the sample using the audition icon (Play Sample) on the toolbar.
The following applies:
• If you have not made a selection, the whole sample is played back.
• If you have made a selection, this selection is played back.
• If the Edit Loop function is activated, playback continues repeatedly until you
deactivate the audition function.
You can specify the playback start position by clicking in the timeline.
Using the Edit Loop Function
When the Edit Loop icon is activated on the toolbar, the selection is played back
continuously in a loop. This makes it easier to work on specific sections of long loops,
for example.
Using the Play Tool
If you click somewhere in the waveform display with the Play tool and keep the mouse
button pressed, the sample is played back from the position at which you clicked until
you release the mouse button.
Scrubbing
The Scrub tool allows you to locate positions in the audio by playing back, forwards or
backwards, at any speed:
1. Select the Scrub tool.
2. Click in the waveform display and keep the mouse button pressed.
3. Drag to the left or right.
The audio is played back. The speed and pitch of the playback depends on how
fast you move the mouse.
Selecting an Output for the Sample Editor
The Sample editor plays back the raw samples without processing the synthesis
structure. Therefore, its output is not automatically the same as the output of the zone
that uses the sample.
On the Output pop-up menu at the right of the title bar, you can specify to which plug-
in output the Sample editor sends its signals.
The level slider next to the output selector allows you to specify the level of the
Sample editor output.
If you are working with surround samples, make sure that the Sample editor is routed
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to the surround output bus. Otherwise, you are not able to hear all channels.
Keep in mind that samples are often normalized and therefore are played back with a
much higher level than if triggered via a MIDI key.
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Editing Samples in the Sample Editor
General Operations