Receiving Samples Via A Dump; Assigning Samples - GEM GPS3600 Owner's Manual

Program can distribute the Samples over sev-
eral different "Levels" (dynamic levels).
Sample Translator can load single Samples, or it
can convert, in a single operation, an entire "level"
of the Program into a PS/GPS Series Waveform.
If a Program contains more than one "level", it
can be converted entirely in successive phases,
using (a) a Sound Patch, (b) a multi track con-
figuration, c) a Sound containing a key-dynamic
assignment (executed in Edit Sound).
Conversion limitations
A PS/GPS Waveform can contain only 16 sam-
ples. For example, an Akai S1000™ level can
contain up to 99 Samples, therefore, when a con-
version is carried out, only the 16 Samples from
the lowest register are loaded.
These kind of Samples can overlap even inside
a dynamic Level. Sample Translator eliminates
this overlap, using the lowest limit-note of the
highest pitched sample as the limit between sam-
ples.

Receiving Samples via a Dump

You can also Dump samples into Sample Trans-
lator via the Sample Request option (F7). This is
discussed in detail on page 2.53.
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Assigning samples

ASSIGN (F4)
Once you've loaded in the samples that you need,
the only essential step you need to take before
you can save them is to ASSIGN, (or "map"), your
samples to a specific range of keys. Only as-
signed samples become a part of a Waveform
which you can then save to the PS/GPS Wave
Library.
When you load a new Waveform into Sample
Translator, the samples that constitute the Wave-
form are shown assigned to specific key ranges.
In such cases, three values are shown, the low-
est note, the sample pitch and the highest note:
If you load new Samples from disk or receive
them via MIDI, they will normally be shown with-
out an assignment, but with the sample pitch. In
such cases, Sample Translator allows you to lis-
ten to the sample across the entire keyboard, to
help you decide the in which note range you can
obtain the best results.
Once you have decided the best note range,
press the ASSIGN button (F4) to open the AS-
SIGN MENU.
The selected Sample is shown with a temporary
key range, represented by the black line. The
"notch" shown in the line represents the Sample
Pitch.
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Highest note
Lowest note
Sample pitch